Harvard School of Public Health - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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Seated, left to right —Miss Corrigan, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Dennis, Dr. Silverman, Dr. First, Dr. Shapiro, Mrs. Rubenstein. Standing —Mr. Gussman, Dr. Yoder, Mr. Krusen, Mr. Baldwin, Mrs. Croteau, Miss Golich, Mr. Wiedeman, Dr. Devir, Mr. Toohey, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Kyritsis. DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE Leslie Silverman, S.B., S.M., S.D., Professor of Engineering in Environmental Hygiene and Head of the Department Charles R. Williams, Ph.D., A ssociate Professor of Applied Industrial Hygiene George F. Wilkins, A.B., M.D., Associate Clinical Professor of Occupational Medicine Charles E. Billings, S.M., Associate Professor of Industrial Hygiene Engineering Richard Dennis, S.M., Assistant Professor of Industrial Hygiene Jacob Shapiro, S.B., S.M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biophysics in Environmental Hygiene William A. Burgess, S.M., Assistant Professor of Environmental Health and Safety Engineering Allen D. Brandt, S.D., Visiting Lecturer on Industrial Hygiene Engineering Nathan Van Hendricks, S.B., Chem.E., Visiting Lecturer on Industrial Hygiene Engineering Lawrence C. Cooke, Visiting Lecturer on Industrial Hygiene James M. Austin, M.A., S.D., Visiting Lecturer on Meteorology and Air Pollution Allen L. Cudworth, S.M., Visiting Lecturer on Control of Noise in Industry Ashley St. Clair, A.B., LL.B., Visiting Lecturer on Workmens Compensation Robert Yoder, B.S., S.D. in Hyg., Associate in Radiological Hygiene Melvin W. First, S.D., Senior Research Associate in Industrial Hygiene Engineering Robert A. Gussman, S.B. in Mech. Engineering, S.M. in I.H., Research Associate in Industrial Hygiene Engineering George C. Krusen, II, S.M., Research Associate in Industrial Hygiene Engineering Charles A. Mitchell, S.M., Assistant in Industrial Hygi ene Theodore Georgiadis, B.S., Research Eelloiv in Industrial Hygiene 20

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Dr. Leslie Silverman Professor of Engineering in Environmental Hygiene and Head of the Department INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE 1

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T HIS year marks the first in which the department has occupied its space in the new Kresge Center for Environmental Health and Safety. It also is the first time since 1950 that the complete research facilities of the Department have been located in the same building. The Harvard Air Cleaning Laboratory, which for twelve years had been in leased quarters, was moved in January, 1963, to the new pilot plant and adjoining laboratories in the basement. The department offices and laboratories, which were at 55 Shattuck Street, were moved in late August. While the new quarters are most welcome, the staff and the students are suffering some from the debugging” operation which app arently is necessary in any new facility like ours with novel aspects and special equipment. The move also forced the staff to curtail their foreign activities for this year. As in the past, the full-time teaching and research staff of the department is com¬ posed primarily of engineers, physicists and chemists, with a part-time staff from the medical and biological specialties. The Department of Physiology, through the Division of Environmental Hygiene, provides teaching support in the physiologic and toxicologic areas. Dr. Shapiro and Professor Burgess, two members of our staff, also provide part of their time to the Division of Environmental Health and Safety of the University Health Services. Harvard has a faculty, staff, and employee group as large as its student body of nearly 10,000. This combination of students and staff makes it comparable to a large diversified research and development laboratory with a wide variety of potential occupational health problems . For example, over 150 laboratories in the University and its affiliated teaching hospitals use various radioisotopes. This in-house” situation provides an excellent field study opportunity for student observation and training. The department conducts a broad program of research activities. Studies are underway on the control of radioactive hazards associated with nuclear energy processes such as power and test reactors, the use of radioisotopes and methods of detecting radiation in small quantities. Research is also continuing on the control of air pollution from steel making processes, and the behavior of inert and radioactive aerosols. A basic program on evaluation and development of protective respiratory devices is also in progress. A new research program which involves a systems analysis approach to central waste management for urban communities is being developed in cooperation with the Harvard- MIT Center for Urban Studies. It is hoped that this study will lead to a systematic procedu re for disposing of solid wastes which now cause serious air pollution problems in large urban communities. At the present time the department has two research contracts with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and one with the American Iron and Steel Institute. A Department of Physiology research grant from the Public Health Service on deposition of particles in the respiratory tract receives physical sciences support from our staff. 21