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KU turns food waste into biodiesel fuel
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The University has a laboratory dedicated to helping the environment and allowing students to experience hands-on learning.
Missy Minear/KANSAN Dining halls, like Mrs. E's, recycle their used cooking oil to make biodiesel fuel for campus use.
In the spring and summer months,the students
The students test and produce biodiesel fuel from recycled vegetable oil leftover from the dining halls on campus. The program hopes to grow in the near future to get more of the University running on recycled oil that can help to increase the quality of the air.
Students run the lab themselves, although Susan Michelle Stagg-Williams, an engineering professor, oversees the production. Each week, about 25 student volunteers pick up the vegetable oil from each residential dining hall on campus and produce the biodiesel.
"It's a little different because it is more stable," said Courtney Crain, a junior chemical engineering student and the head lab manager for the KU Biodiesel Initiative. "We're less in the research stage and more in the production stage."
produce about three batches of a mixture of biodiesel and diesel fuel each week which equals about 120 gallons. The standard mixture for the fuel is 20 percent biodiesel and 80 percent diesel. This then goes into ATVs, lawn mowers and other machinery on campus.
The Biodiesel Initiative started this project almost a decade ago to increase sustainability across campus.
Missy Minear/KANSAN pus use.
"Biodiesel is a lot more energy-friendly because it is easily obtainable and renewable, and it doesn't produce nearly as many emissions either," Crain said.
The University's dining halls paired up with the students to help these efforts.
"Certainly, we didn't pioneer the idea, it was something that was already happening in plenty of places," said Jim Schilling, assistant director of residential dining.
"It helps with the sustainability effort and it certainly is a slight, not a tremendous, but there is a slight money savings because any of that oil that is diverted into petroleum production for biodiesel is then not something we would have to pay an oil recycling company to come pick up," Schilling said.
However, KU Dining did join the efforts mostly for the environmental benefits, as well.
"Our future plans are really to just facilitate more growth through communication between KU as a whole, so we can hopefully get biodiesel used more in different KU facilities," Crain said. "In theory anything that runs diesel should be able to run biodiesel."
Schilling believes the residential dining halls produce about 50 gallons of vegetable oil a week from their fryers, only 24 of which are currently used, so there is plenty to go around in order to have more vehicles and equipment run on biodiesel on campus.
However, there are currently no plans to bring the biodiesel to the buses at the University, Crain said. The Biodiesel Initiative spoke to the University's Transportation department, but decided not to pursue it because it might require changing parts of the engines on the buses or cause other mechanical issues.
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backgrounds, and we also tried to have a good mix of freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors," Erwin said.
For Anushka Bhattacharya, a freshman studying electrical engineering from Mumbai, India, the goal behind the group — to empower women in STEM fields — compelled her to apply and join Jayhawks Breaking Barriers.
"Being part of a group like this, I can make changes by taking steps and taking initiatives, by training myself I can help others get better at their leadership qualities," she said.
According to Erwin, the
project consists of four main components to help undergraduate students develop leadership skills; leadership training, mentoring and networking, data collection efforts and a final event in April.
The grant helped organize five leadership training workshops, as well as funding the final event. Bhattacharya said she has already received feedback from professionals on how to present herself in the professional world.
One the most interesting parts for her so far, Bhattacharya said, was hearing Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little talk about her experiences as part of the second workshop.
share their experiences, you can relate to it and learn from those things," she said. "They set an example on how to overcome obstacles."
"When other people
We hope to encourage women to be confident in taking on leadership positions."
Through the data collection portion, Erwin said, the goal is to explore the gender gap in the region, so that they can bring awareness to the issue. Students are paired with professional mentors and work with graduate and doctoral students in this data collection, creating a professional network earlier in their careers, Erwin said.
She said another goal for the project is talent retention in the Kansas and Missouri area, especially considering the big number of STEM opportunities found in this area.
Ultimately, all these efforts will help provide students with the tools to take on leadership roles, Erwin said.
"We hope to encourage women to be confident in taking on leadership positions and hopefully giving them the skills so they could be successful in those roles," she said.
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suggestions passed during the commission meeting in the future, the commission said.
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KU who are undocumented or international students."
student body president at the University.
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Smackdown Trivia
A "welcoming city" differs from a sanctuary city, as sanctuary cities can have their funding removed by the federal and state governments, Toomay said.
The Lawrence proclamation was written so that state and federal funding would not be rescinded. A welcoming city carries no legal weight and is just a statement showing that the City has a welcoming attitude toward immigrants.
"Reaffirming our current proclamation that deals with a welcoming city seems to satisfy the fact that we don't believe that the funds we receive from the state will be jeopardized because we're a welcoming city — just so that it's in the record — we are not declaring ourselves a sanctuary city," said City Commissioner Mike Amyx during the meeting.
MONDAY, MARCH 20 Open Mic
In December, Student Senate passed a resolution that asked the city to declare its support for undocumented students. City staff met with Student Senate multiple times in recent months, said Stephonn Alcorn, the
"By bringing in the Student Senate and now the city of Lawrence into the conversation in the supporting of undocumented students, we can all work together to make Lawrence a better place," Alcorn said.
I feel like these issues are pertinent to the livelihood and experience for students at KU who are undocumented or international students."
More than a dozen community members addressed the commission in regard to sanctuary cities.
The city staff will continue to work on and develop the
"I'm happy they made those decisions," Alcorn said after the meeting. "I feel like these issues are pertinent to the livelihood and experience for students at
Stephonn Alcorn Student Body President
Alcorn said that Lawrence can still show support for marginalized students while keeping its funding. Alcorn was pleased by the outcome of the commission meeting.
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