When the team left Detroit at the end of July, they had two weeks of data to analyze in their search for the answer. In addition to cell and tissue samples from the exposed rodents, Gerald Keeler, associate professor in UM s Department of Environmental and Industrial Health, gathered samples of the airborne particles for chemical analysis and UM meteorologist Frank Marsik collected data on wind and temperature to relate air quality to weather conditions. The trailer and the research team were back at Maybury School for three weeks in September when 600 students crammed the building designed for 400. The trailer may also go to Los Angeles where researchers at the University of Southern California and the University of California at Los Angeles are studying the human health effects of particulates in the southern California air. The third time Jack climbed his beanstalk seeking revenge against the giant at the top, he came away with a harp that played without being touched.
Music is a serious avocation.
Fluent in seven languages and conversant with five more, he teaches Hausa, the first or second language of at least 50 million people in West Africa. He began his MSU career and his painstaking application of computer technology to meet the needs of people with various disabilities in the Department of Computer Science more than 25 years ago. Many factors combine to overcome barriers for those without voices. The first is their own determination to communicate a laborious process at best. Another is ALL technical director Stephen Blosser, a mechanical and rehabilitation engineer whose ingenuity and expertise account for many accomplishments.