Lab equipment donated to SE Occupational Safety & Health
Press Release Date: 10-05-2010
Southeastern professors Dr. Hal Poovey and Chris Bradshaw look over the equipment.
DURANT, Okla. – The Department of Occupational Safety and Health at Southeastern Oklahoma State University recently received laboratory and ancillary equipment donated by Dr. Charles Marshall.
Marshall is an Assistant Professor with the Aviation Sciences Institute at the Oklahoma City Community College/John Massey Center and Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. The closure of his private analytical lab several years ago left much of the equipment in storage.
Procurement of the equipment was facilitated by Southeastern professors Chris Bradshaw and Dr. Hal Poovey, who transported the equipment from Oklahoma City.
"This equipment will greatly expand our analytic capabilities and provide an opportunity for our students to get hands-on experience in a way that was not previously possible," Poovey said.
Added Bradshaw: "Not only will it be of benefit to our Industrial Hygiene classes, but the use of the Spill-x Spill-Guns and FastResponse equipment donated will allow more extensive hands-on in the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response masters courses."
The donated equipment includes an atomic absorption spectrophotometer, a gas chromatograph, a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer, a purge and trap system as well as additional small pieces that support the aforementioned equipment, the spill response equipment and additional miscellaneous laboratory equipment. It is estimated that the value of the donated equipment is approximately $80,000.