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Pollution Device

engineering, has been experimenting
for two years with a
two-phase lagoon system to help a
tannery at Luray control water
pollution.

Also in the engineering school,
an undergraduate course on principles
of air pollution and graduate
courses on air pollution control and
the medical, legal and socioeconomic
aspects and biological
effects of air pollution are being
planned.

On the medical front. "The
whole health effort is an environment
thing. We are trying to do
something about the quality of life
for everybody," says Dr. Thomas
H. Hunter, vice president for
medical affairs at the University.

For more than a year, a
subcommittee on environmental
problems from the University's
Office of Sponsored Programs has
been examining how the University
can best help solve environmental
problems. In addition, a group of
students, faculty and townspeople
is planning a program on environmental
problems for April 19-25.

In disciplinary efforts, the
Center for Housing and Social
Environment is establishing basic
design criteria for large scale
housing. The Center for Research
and Innovations in Buildings is
working toward new structural
concepts that could lead to cities
beneath the sea and moving buildings.