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Sources: Nancy Larson, 785-532-6501, nlarson@k-state.edu;
and David Carter, 785-532-6026, dcarter@k-state.edu;
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News release prepared by: Beth Bohn, 785-532-6415, bbohn@k-state.edu
Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009
1xbet online games login ROUNDTABLE GROUP RECOGNIZES K-STATE 1xbet online games login INSTITUTE'S INTERN PROGRAM AS THE BEST
MANHATTAN -- The 1xbet online games login Institute at Kansas State University is being honored for one of its programs by the National 1xbet online games login Roundtable.
The K-State institute's intern program has received the roundtable group's Most Valuable 1xbet online games login Program award, also called the MVP2 award, as the best 1xbet online games login project/program. The honor will be presented Tuesday, Sept. 22, in Washington, D.C.
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The 1xbet online games login Institute is part of the K-State Engineering Extension program. The institute has provided 1xbet online games login technical assistance to businesses, industry, institutions and agencies for the last 15 years in an effort to help them reduce wastes and emissions at the source. The institute works with entities to help them identify changes in material technology and/or processes that will reduce potential pollution at the source and result in cost and environmental savings.
"Traditionally, the 1xbet online games login Institute provided these source-reduction services through an environmental hot line and on-site assistance," said Nancy Larson, institute director. "But when the institute piloted a 1xbet online games login intern program in 2006, it began to identify major source reduction opportunities for industry and institutions, resulting in significant environmental improvements and cost savings."
"The 1xbet online games login Institute's intern program is a nonregulatory program offered in the summer and designed to link top-level engineering and environmental sciences students from K-State and other schools with business and industry," said David Carter, 1xbet online games login and energy efficiency specialist at the institute and coordinator of the intern program.
"Collaborations focus on projects to reduce energy use, emissions and wastes, which benefit a company's bottom line and the Kansas environment," Carter said. "Students work with a technical adviser from the 1xbet online games login Institute and a host company to research energy efficiency/1xbet online games login projects."
The results from the program have been outstanding, Larson said.
"In the first three years of the intern projects, participating companies have implemented 48 of the recommendations -- or 66 percent -- made through the program," she said. "These implemented projects have resulted in savings of more than 28 million kilowatt hours of electricity, 107.5 million gallons of water, 4,150 tons of waste and more than million in operating or disposal costs."
The intern program is one of several programs offered by K-State's 1xbet online games login Institute, an agency that is funded primarily through grants. The institute houses the Kansas Small Business Environmental Assistance Program and offers Kansas industry and institutions free, confidential, technical-environmental compliance assistance.
The National 1xbet online games login Roundtable provides a national forum for promoting the development, implementation and evaluation of efforts to avoid, eliminate or reduce pollution at the source. The roundtable includes the country's preeminent 1xbet online games login experts, from regional resource centers, state and local government programs, small business assistance networks, nonprofit groups, industry associations, federal agencies and academia.
