PROFESSOR 'RISKED EVERYTHING' TO BRING FLINT CRISIS TO LIGHT

摘要

As an undergraduate in biophysics contemplating graduate school, Marc Edwards visited John Hopkins University and asked the first civil engineer he met what civil engineers do. That civil engineer, Abel Wolman, the father of modern clean-water supply, told Edwards, "If it weren't for people like me, people like you would be dead." Edwards was hooked. Today, Edwards is the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech, but he may be better known for bringing to light dangerous levels of lead in drinking water in Flint, Mich., and Washington, D.C.