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KU professor receives award for water treatment research
By RUTH BENIEN
Staff Reporter
The water you have to drink 20 years from now may be clean because of the research of Ross McKinney, N. T. Veatch and Ralph C. Barrick in Engineering at the University of Kansas.
McKinney was elected to the National Academy of Engineers last week for his research in water sanitation. Election to the national academy required a professional distinction on an engineer cat call.
In the past 25 years, McKinney has shown engineers how to use fundamental microbiology and biochemistry principles to develop methods for waste water dixual treatment systems.
McKinney became interested in biology and how it could be applied to engineering design when he was working on his doctoral dissertation at the University of Utah Institute of Technology (UTE).
"PRIOR TO 1950," McKinney said, engineers were designing waste water systems.
At its annual organizational meeting, the Council also elected new SenEx members and an assistant presiding officer for the Council.
The University Council yesterday elected Peter Turk, acting assistant professor of journalism, presiding officer for the 1977-78 academic year.
Turk elected by Council as officer
Westerbeek was nominated as SenEx chairman by the newly elected SenEx members, and the Council made it official by a voice vote. Samuel Zweifel, Lawrence special student, will be the new SenEx vice chairman.
The SenEx members are Hobert Jackson, associate professor of architecture and urban design; Carl Leban, associate professor of art; Carl Strohmar, Marquis, associate professor of philosophy; T. P. Srinivasan, professor of math; Evelyn Swartz, professor of education; and William Rapp, professor of history.
Steve Owens, Salina junior, was elected assistant presiding officer of the Council.
Program offers dark museum for the curious
Anybody who has ever wondered whether that is what actually occurs when a museum reopens or even changes to find out tonight when the Museum of Natural History in Dyche Hall presents its exhibition.
Wolf hows fluff the air, an snakes are busy eating and, if one looks closely, the stuffed animal looks like a sheep.
From 7 to 9:30 p.m., the museum will be open to anyone who has a flashlight, the desire to browse around a dark museum and the price of admission: 50 cents for Museum Associates members and $1 for游客. Tickets will be available at the door.
Gennrich said that visitors would be encouraged to wander around and that films and tape recordings would be playing throughout the evening.
"It was a childhood fantasy of mine that museum things probably move at night," Ruth Genrich, public education director at the Museum of Natural History, "I think it's a pretty universal fantasy."
On every floor, Gennrich said, there will be recorded sounds of different animals, including Russian fish, elephants and toads, a few birds and drums at a Native American exhibit.
Films on bat navigation and the adaptations of nocturnal animals will be shown during the event.
The museum's live snakes will be fed dead mice to eat just before the program, Germenich said, and she predicted that whatever would be eating throughout the program.
The museum will be open to people of all ages, but children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult or responsible teenager, Genrich said.
The University of Kansas chapter of the Association of Black Social Workers will present its second annual conference, en- titled "Black Social Workers Revisited," today in the Kansas Union.
The program is presented in cooperation with the KU School of Social Welfare, is presented to provide a setting where minority social workers and minority workers in related fields of the social services can share their ideas with others.
Robert Allen, associate professor at San Jose State University, will be the featured speaker. Allen has degrees from Howard University and the University of Vienna Research and the University of Vienna.
Black problems topic of meeting
The conference will consist of several workshops dealing with psychological, sociological and educational problems in the black community.
The cost for the all-day conference will be $10 for professionals, $5.50 for community members.
"I became concerned because, in order to understand how to deal with the microorganisms present in waste water, you have to understand and use them." For many years biologists wrote research only for other biologists."
Most water sanitation systems today use three stages of water purification: primary,
THE SECONDARY stage of a water purification plant filters out soluble organisms still in the water. These organisms, which are bacterial organism that lives below 30 milligrams to meet Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards.
In the primary or first stage, the solid particles in the water are removed with filters. Most water, especially that used by fish and humans, can be removed if it can't be removed by this first stage only.
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If the EPA standards aren't met, a third or tertiary stage of water purification is required. This stage removes the microbes in the wastewater, and is used as phosphorus and other soluble organic.
Through the use of biological waste water treatment, the third stage of purification often can be eliminated, making the system cheaper and more economical.
Biological waste water treatment, now
being used in more and more cities, involves the use of microbes, which are grown on plants.
"RIGHT NOW!" McKinney said, "we're helping the Grand Island, Neb., sanitation department, which had the wrong kind of enforcement," she added. They couldn't meet EPA permit standards.
"Through application of fundamental microbiology, we helped them to shift from bacterial to fungal cultures."
McKinney also helped another sanitation system to develop a type of microbe that would eat penicillin bacteria in the water. This helped kill some bacteria killed the other bacteria-aquatic microbes.
"WE USE the findings in our classes, and our students tend to get the results much faster than if they waited for them to be printed in textbooks." McKinney said.
One site of McKinney's work in biological waste water treatment is the Lawrence Sewage Treatment Plant. Lawrence recently finished a secondary system, and McKinney is now helping to train its operators.
The research gives KU engineering students an advantage, McKinney said and says it is the most important step in the research.
McKinney puts his research results into the engineering program at KU.
McKinney said he hoped the biological waste water treatment systems would give new insight into operational problems. He said he thought that eventually all current treatment plants would be able to meet EPA standards.
A professor must work with cities, consulting engineers and industries, explaining the causes of pollution.
If the use of such system is expanded, it will allow engineers to keep the water clean. If this is done before the water supply drops, it helps in maintaining the level of usable water, according to McKinney.
MCKINNEY'S ELECTION to the National Academy of Engineers was for his contributions to the development of such facilities. He also contributed to the environmental engineering profession.
Robert Smith, Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering, is also a member of the Academy.
McKinney, a native of San Antonio, Tex. came to KU in 1861 after seven years on the faculty of MIT. He has held the KU Parker Professorship of Civil Engineering and Director of the Environmental Health Research Laboratory at the University.
Among other honors, McKinney has received the Eddy Award for research and the Rudolph Herring Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers. He recently was reappointed by Gov. Robert R. Osborne to the Advisory Commission on Environment.
KU Republicans pick most corrupt official
Jimmy Carter lost an election on campus yesterday by one vote.
He was nosed out, 40 to 41, by State rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, in a race to determine KU's favorite "corrupt public official."
The election, sponsored by the KU College Republicans, used nonsecret ballots, which cost a penny a piece. Students could vote more than once.
The polling place in front of the Kansas Union was open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. yesterday and Wednesday. Anyone could cast a vote for his favorite corrupt public official, even if the official was a Republican.
By yesterday morning, Bufford Watson,
lawrence city manager, had comfortable
downstairs chair.
AS WINNER of the election, Glover will receive a letter notifying him of his victory.
That victory wasn't assured until the last vote had been counted. Carter took an early lead Wednesday morning when one voter expresses how he express his displeasure with the President.
But when the votes were counted at 3 p.m. yesterday, the results were Glover, 4; Carter, 40; Curt Schneider, Kansas attorney general, 72; Watson, 26; Robert Bennett, 25; John Schoenig, 19; Scott Anderson, Courtney, 21; and Brian Anderson, Treasurer of the Kansas College
Republican Federation, 18. Other candidates received less than five votes.
VOTER TURNOUT was light and one
dollar. Club member blamed it
on the weather.
"It's rained during every in-between-class rush," he complained.
A check of the polls at 2 p.m. Wednesday showed they had been closed because of rain.
Even yesterday's sunshine failed to increase voter interest. Between 9 and 11 a.m.
Total receipts were $3.75
Club members said the money earned would be used to bring prominent political leaders and officials to the club.
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Three Fraser Hall kevs stolen
A University of Kansas staff member reported to KU police Tuesday that her bifIdle, containing three University keys, was seized at Gibson Discount Center, 2258 Iowa St.
All three keys were to Fraser Hall. One opened the outside doors of the building, one was a master key to all the inside doors of Fraser, and one was to the staff member's
The buildings and grounds department has duplicate keys to all campus buildings.
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