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NSF Award Will Boost Doctoral Research in Newfield WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSllY Volume 26, Number 14 www.wmich.edu/wmu/news April 6, 2000 P&G turns patented technology over to WMU paper tech experts While organizations around the nation "At P&G, we're driven by innovation," are encouraging employees to "think out- Brunner said when announcing the gift. side the box," a gift from Procter & Gamble "Each year we invest over $1.7 billion in is encouraging WMU researchers to take a research and development, and are awarded look at the box itself. about 3,000 patents. We currently have Consumer product giant P&G an- over 25,000 patents in our portfolio. Very nounced March 30 a donation of rights to simply, we invent more innovative tech- more than 100 pending global patents for nologies than we can develop. Enhanced Paperboard Technology to the "WMU's paper technology program is Paper Technology Foundation Inc. at the uniquely qualified to bring this packaging University. technology to market quickly. Since P&G P&<i The announcement was made in a spends about $400 million a year on ship- packed news conference at the Fetzer Cen- ping containers, it makes good sense to ter, with Michigan Gov. John M. Engler donate this technology to WMU so it can delivering a brief address. develop Enhanced Paperboard Technol- "What we're witnessing today is some- ogy to provide opportunities for compa- thing that is pretty special and something I nies like us to benefit from future cost A big gift in a hope might become a regular occurrence in savings. WMU is in the paper business, Michigan," Engler said. "It is the teaming and P&G is in the business of creating and small box- up of very impressive corporate partners improving consumer products. It's a win- with some of America's very best research win situation." 100 patents- universities, the goal being to further re- WMU researchers say the use of the search, develop and market new technolo- technology and its potential economic im- makes it 'truly gies." pact are not limited to the packaging or Enhanced Paperboard Technology is a linerboard industries. Future applications a day we can more cost-effective method for producing could include such products as building celebrate' strong, humidity-resistant linerboard, materials, temporary disaster housing and which is used to make the corrugated con- automobile insulation-anything that re- A gift of 100 pending patents tainers widely used in product shipping. quires strong, lightweight, humidity-resis- for Enhanced Paperboard Once it is further developed and com- tant material. Widespread use of the tech- Technology was symbolized, mercialized by University researchers, nology also has the potential to create new above, by the prototype box Enhanced Paperboard Technology could markets for agricultural by-products that presented by Gordon result in an industry cost savings of nearly researchers believe could become key in- Brunner, Procter & Gamble half a billion dollars annually. WMU will gredients of the new material. chief technology officer, far realize all future financial benefits from "We've said many times that creating left, to WMU President Elson commercializing the technology. University/corporate partnerships is the key S. Floyd, second from left. Why would P&G donate a viable and not only for the future success of our Uni- Looking on were Gov. John potentially profitable technology? Accord- versity, but also for the economic develop- Engler, center, and John Bergin, far right, who is vice president of ing to P&G Chief Technology Officer ment and well-being of the citizens we Consolidated Papers and president of the Paper Technology Foundation. Gordon Brunner, the company has a finan- serve," said President Floyd in accepting The gift, Engler told those attending the announcement, made March 30 cial stake in seeing the invention devel- the gift. "We are delighted at the opportu- "truly a day we can celebrate." (Photos by John Lacko) oped quickly. nities this gift will create. Not only will this allow one of our top programs to expand its impact, it also will mean we can offer our students a chance to be involved in devel- NSF award will boost doctoral research in new field oping cutting-edge technology." The National Science Foundation has Students will continue their training at versity, Ohio University, Ohio State Uni- Enhanced Paperboard Technology awarded close to $2.8 million to a new and their home institutions during the academic versity, Pennsylvania State University, Enhanced Paperboard Technology in- innovative doctoral research and training year. Purdue University, the University of Mi- volves substituting resins and calcium li- program being offered through Western The proposal has been in the works for ami, the University of Michigan, the Uni- gnosulfonates, which are natural by-prod- Michigan University and II other partici- more than two years. The $2.8 million versity of Virginia and Washington State ucts of the paper pulping process, for part pating institutions. grant is actually University. of the wood fiber typically used in The Biosphere Atmosphere Research awarded to the U-M Among a wide linerboard production. The resulting mate- and Training program, dubbed BART by Biological Station. range of topics stu- rial is strengthened so much that enhanced organizers, will take a multi-disciplinary WMU will receive dents could study 35-lb. linerboard can be substituted for approach in studying how changes in at- about $2.5 million the effects of mer- packaging that currently requires the stron- mospheric conditions can profoundly af- to coordinate the cury deposition in ger 55-lb. Iinerboard. This saves 25 per- fect living organisms and how those al- project. the Great Lakes, el- centofthe wood pulp that would ordinarily tered organisms can, in turn, affect the In addition to us- evated carbon diox- be used for the stronger box. atmosphere. ing the station's ad- ide levels or high Paperboard products, which include The novel, residential program will train vanced facilities, concentrations of linerboard, comprise nearly 60 percent of students to address a range of key ques- students will work ground level ozone. the paper industry, which is the nation's tions about how the biosphere and atmo- with faculty men- Bertman Karowe "One of the fast- fifth-largest industry. In Michigan, the pa- sphere interact. But students will have to tors, who will guide them in joining a new est ways to advance science in this country per industry accounts for 9 percent of the look outside their own disciplines into other cadre of scientists prepared to address com- is to identify fruitful mergers of existing (Continued on page four) fields to search for answers. plex issues in the 2151 century. disciplines - to spot interdisciplinary areas "The National Science Foundation is The grant is through the NSF's Integra- - that would generate terrific synergisms trying to advance science and create a tive Graduate Education and Research between what we recognize as existing, This News is last issue research field that doesn't exist by combin- Training program. Each BART student separate disciplines," says David Karowe, for winter semester ing disciplines that already do exist," says receives a $15,000 yearly stipend, funding biological sciences, who also helped de- This is the last issue of the West- Steven Bertman, chemistry, who helped for tuition and fees, travel support, and sign the program and has studied the ef- ern News for the winter semester. design the model program. "They want to support for equipment and supplies. In fects of elevated carbon dioxide levels on Publication will resume in the build bridges between disciplines." addition to 10 intensive weeks at the bio- plants and animals. same large format for the spring ses- The program is being billed as a "total logical station and conducting research, Karowe and Bertman say that the BART sion. Spring publication dates are immersion experience" in which students students will take part in group Internet program was fortunate to recei ve NSF fund- May 4, May 18, June 1, and June 15. spend two summers at the University of discussion and data analysis and attend ing. Between 500 and 600 proposals were Summer session issues of the West- Michigan Biological Station in Pellston. two BART conferences and two national submitted to the agency, of which 21 were ern News will be published in a small There they will take part in a series of conferences. selected. Of those 21 , all except the BART format. Those issues are scheduled education activities involving ongoing re- Other participating.institutions include program involve just one or, in a few cases, forJune29,July 13, July 27 and Aug. search programs that will prepare them to Bowling Green State University, Indiana 10. conduct their own pioneering research. University, Michigan Technological Uni- (Continued on page two) Two April 6, 2000 Western News WMUK sweeps news documentary awards from Michigan press broadcast group Radio station WMUK-FM, the the election last November. He sat in on University's public radio station, captured campaign strategy sessions, went door-to- top honors in the news documentary cat- door with McCann and interviewed cam- egory in this year's Michigan Associated paign volunteers, as well as the candidate. Press Broadcasters Association competi- The documentary aired after the election tion. and offered listeners an inside look at what A documentary titled "City Commis- it's like to run for local elected office. sioner," produced by Gordon Evans, won "Fish for All," produced by Abraham the first place award. Evans spent two Hohnke and Andy Robins, won an honor- weeks following Kalamazoo City Com- able mention. The half-hour program used mission candidate Sean McCann before oral history interviews gathered by WMU's Great Lakes Center for Maritime Studies to look at the conflict over fishing re- Host families needed sources in northern Lake Michigan.
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