UO E-clips, Sept. 19

Potential environmental risks aren't part of chemical engineers training (Los Angeles Times): Marty Mulvihill was working in a laboratory with carbon tetrachloride. The lab's supply of the solvent was diminishing, and Mulvihill learned it was being phased out for environmental reasons. Curious, he asked his advisor whether carbon tetrachloride was as bad as he had heard. "He asked me if I change the oil in my car, and I said yes. So he said, 'Well, it's not any more dangerous than those chemicals,' "said Mulvihill, who at the time was earning an undergraduate degree in chemistry at Reed University in Portland. ... at the University of Oregon, two professors restructured a conventional lab course to emphasize green principles. At the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Warner created the first doctoral program in green chemistry.

Search resumes for lost math professor (Associated Press, appearing in The News-Review): A Lane County search team will make another, and probably final, attempt to find Damaing Xu, a University of Oregon math professor missing in the Three Sisters wilderness since failing to return from a hike on Nov. 4. County search and rescue coordinator John Miller said about three dozen searchers from Lane and other counties will return to the 9-mile-long French Pete Creek drainage area beginning Friday. He said late summer makes for optimal search conditions in the 50 square-mile area. The search was suspended Nov. 18 because of harsh weather. The 63-year-old Xu, an experienced hiker, planned to return from his solo hike and be back in Eugene the next day in time for his classes. He began teaching at Oregon in 1990.