Word: alpert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last summer several children in a Harvard daycare center entered hospitals after being stung by German yellow pickets. The center called on Gary D. Alpert Post control officer of the EHS to help present the children from being stung in the future. Alpert found that the vicious insects are attracted to substances continuing protein he also realized that the children ate their lunches out doors and that many brought tuna fish sandwiches, rich in protein. He solved the problem by destroying local insect colonies and having the children cat meals indoors...
Under the auspices of the EHS, Harding, Alpert. Johnson and other health specialists respond to and attack a variety of health Eazards through out the University. A multi faceted public health organization. EHS is one of Harvard's newer establishments. In 1958, University Health Services hired Dr. Benjamin G. Ferris, current EHS director to organize a few radiation protection officers into a larger group which would oversee health conditions in University buildings. At the time, the main purpose of EHS was to handle radioactive material and to establish safety programs...
...chemical exposures and deals with asbestos-related problems; three safety and construction as well as hazardous chemical disposal; David E. Breen, a fire protection engineer who tries to detect fire hazards; Jessie A. Morton, who heads the sanitation inspection branch: Harding, who handles infectious agents and genetics research hazards: Alpert, the newest of the group, who deals with pest control: and a radiation protection group, headed by Dr. Jacob Shapiro, a radiological safety engineer, and Johnson...
While most people are not directly affected by the work of the Radiation Protection Group, the EHS is also responsible for dealing with matters that crawl into the daily lives of most University employees and students. Alpert, who is officially known as the University's entomologist and pest control officer, is responsible, as Ferris says, for "wiping out the beasties" that infest the University...
Thus, as part of his daily routine, Alpert commonly receives calls to identify and eliminate insects ranging from some of the most common pests, like clothes moths or carpet beetles, to some of the most exotic. He has dealt with pests, such as Ornithonyssus bacoti, a tropical rat mite; Pollenia ruidis, a form of cluster fly; and a rare species of beetle larva that was found in a shipment of books...