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Contact: Bruce Conley
Associate Director of College Relations
Phone: (605) 274-5526
Fax: (605) 274-4903
www.augie.edu
April 11, 2006
SIOUX FALLS – The Augustana Student Research Symposium falls on Earth Day, April 22, and the keynote speaker will address recycling.
Dr. William F. Carroll, a vice president of OxyChem, delivers the address titled “From Garbage to Stuff: How We Recycle Plastics.” His presentation discusses the four crucial steps in recycling – collection, separation, reprocessing, and remanufacture – and how they relate to plastics. The technology, the cost and the efficacy of the processes all matter.
The presentation includes a primer in the basic kinds of plastics, how they differ and how they’re used in common articles, especially packaging. Dr. Carroll brings a few common articles for demonstration purposes.
Dr. Carroll’s presentation begins at 7:00 p.m. in Gilbert Science Center room 100. It is free and open to the public.
He is vice president of Chlorovinyl Issues for OxyChem and works on public policy issues and communications related to chlorine and PVC. He is also adjunct professor of chemistry at Indiana University, where he teaches polymer chemistry.
Dr. Carroll is the immediate past president of the American Chemical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a member of the U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, and a member of the Science Advisory Board for DePauw University. He holds two patents, and has more than 40 publications in the fields of organic electrochemistry, polymer chemistry, combustion chemistry and physics, incineration, plastics recycling, and chorine issues.
This is the sixth Augustana Student Research Symposium. The event showcases original student research conducted in collaboration with faculty. Students present their
research to the community from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the Madsen Center. Oral presentations are followed by a question/answer period, while students presenting posters will be available to answer questions.
Since the first Earth Day in 1970, people around the world have sought to celebrate the planet through a variety of individual and community activities.