Black Lung: Dust Hasn’t
Settled on Deadly Disease
Louisville Courier
Journal—June 24, 2007
Article featuring Carol
Rice, PhD, Department of Environmental Health
A 1969 law set the level of
coal-mine dust that miners can breathe during an
eight-hour shift at 2 milligrams per cubic meter of air.
But 38 years later, they're still dying—more than 20,000
nationwide since 1990.
Occupational Hygiene Students
Recognized at National Conference
Five students in the environmental health department’s
division of environmental and occupational hygiene won
awards and scholarships at the American Industrial
Hygiene Conference and Expo, held June 2–7 in
Philadelphia. Chunhui He was honored for the best
student poster in occupational epidemiology for a study
on the complex demands of shift work for nursing aides
in nursing homes. Matt Hammer received the Tichauer
Award for the best student poster in ergonomics for his
study on bottle shell grip design and ergonomic stress
on employees in the beverage delivery industry. Susan
Kotowski received the Tichauer Award for the best
student podium presentation in ergonomics for
gender-specific cue effectiveness as a potential injury
mediator during lifting of unknown weights. Yulia
Iossifova received the H. Kenneth Dillon Memorial Award
for the best biosafety and environmental microbiology
student poster for her comparison of different assays
for detecting-β-D-glucan in purified glucan standards,
pure fungal cultures and home dust samples. Each winning
project was partially funded by the UC Education and
Research Center pilot project program, sponsored by the
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
Two
first year M.S. students won scholarships sponsored by
the AIH Foundation. Chad Brenneman received the Kyle
B. Dotson Scholarship and Celeste Hemphill received the
Liberty Mutual Scholarship.
In addition, Robert Eninger received the John J.
Bloomfield Award from the American Conference of
Governmental Industrial Hygienists. This award is given
to a young industrial hygienist who pursues the problem
of occupational health hazards primarily by doing field
work and who demonstrates significant contributions to
the profession. |