[ TUSKEGEE MOVES AHEAD ] Gilbert L. Rochon President, Tuskegee University
Dr. Rochon wants to bring aircraft pilot training back to the home of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, in the fall of 2012, with plans to bring back and honor surviving members of the famous World War II fighter pilots’ unit. And that’s not all—in a telephone interview, Dr. Rochon ran through an impressive list of new initiatives, including a proposal for new, graduate-level programs in civil engineering, in construction management and “Geomatic” site monitoring, and more new programs in earth science using Global Informa- tion System data and cutting-edge use of aerial and satellite photos to measure and track phenomena including meterological forces, using a ground station established under a NATO Science for Peace grant. Dr. Rochon also said the data from this ground station, and another already established in Morocco, will be used for epidemiological tracking, as part of a cooperative program with Dillard University in New Orleans.
T
uskegee moves ahead but Tuskegee University’s Dr. Gilbert L. Rochon is less interested in talking about the school’s past accomplishments than in looking forward to the future.
New Eyes on Health Disparities Another Tuskegee initiative will be establishment of a national center studying health disparities in underserved popu- lations, and still another new program will examine issues of environmental justice having to do with the siting of pollution- producing industrial facilities too near minority communities. The university recently signed an agreement with the Curtis Robinson Institute for supported research on prostate cancer, using tissue samples gathered through robotic machine surgery, Dr. Rochon said.
Still another new program will use the skills of a specialist
in the use of AM and FM radio signaling to develop an auto- mapping system Tuskegee’s 5,000-acre, 120-building campus. The idea here is to develop what Dr. Rochon calls “intelligent planning” for the siting of facilities, development of plans for emergency evacuations, and minimizing the campus’ environ- mental “footprint.”
The program also will include investigations of forested areas on campus, looking at soil types, species differentiation and biodiversity among plant and animal populations, and it will affect the siting of pipelines and wiring for electrical power, communications and data transmission, among other things.
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