ADVISORY/Drexel Expert Available for Comment on Anthrax Release in New York City.Business Editors ADVISORY... PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 2001 Dr. Charles Haas, chair professor of environmental engineering at Drexel University Drexel University, at Philadelphia, Pa.; coeducational; founded 1891 by Anthony J. Drexel, opened 1892, chartered 1894 as Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry. It was renamed Drexel Institute of Technology in 1936 and gained university status in 1970. , is available for comment on this afternoon's anthrax anthrax (ăn`thrăks), acute infectious disease of animals that can be secondarily transmitted to humans. It is caused by a bacterium (Bacillus anthracis release in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Beginning next term, Dr. Haas will teach a course on bioterrorism addressing many of the questions that need to be answered in the wake of today's events.
-- What is it?
-- What organisms are of concern?
-- What do they do?
-- How is it dispersed?
-- Is it an airborne agent?
-- What does it look like?
-- How could it occur?
-- Has it ever occurred?
-- How can it be prevented?
The author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles and 10 books, Dr. Haas has expertise in the risk assessment of exposure to microbiological organisms and chemical mixtures. He received his Ph.D. in environmental engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Early years: 1867-1880 The Morrill Act of 1862 granted each state in the United States a portion of land on which to establish a major public state university, one which could teach agriculture, mechanic arts, and military training, "without excluding other scientific and his M.S. in environmental engineering from Chicago's Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology, in Chicago; coeducational; founded 1940 by a merger of Armour Institute of Technology (founded 1892) and Lewis Institute (1896). . www.drexel.edu/dateline |
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