Brian Hemphill | |
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9th President of Old Dominion University | |
Assumed office July 1, 2021 | |
Preceded by | John R. Broderick |
7th President of Radford University | |
In office July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2021 | |
Preceded by | Penelope W. Kyle |
Succeeded by | Carolyn Ringer Lepre (interim) |
10th President of West Virginia State University | |
In office July 1, 2012 – July 30, 2016 | |
Preceded by | Hazo W. Carter |
Succeeded by | Anthony L. Jenkins |
Personal details | |
Born | Brian Hemphill |
Spouse | Marisela Rosas Hemphill |
Alma mater | St. Augustine's University (B.A.) Iowa State University (M.S.) University of Iowa (Ph.D) |
Brian O. Hemphill is an American academic administrator, researcher, author and the current president of Old Dominion University, his third university presidency in a decade. Before taking the role at ODU, Hemphill was president of Radford University and West Virginia State University. On February 12, 2021, Dr. Hemphill was announced as the 9th president of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He had become president of West Virginia State University in 2012 and of Radford in 2016.[1][2][3] Before the West Virginia position, he had been vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Northern Illinois University, where he received several student and professional awards, and was praised for his work in the aftermath of a 2008 campus mass shooting. He later edited a book on campus violence as well as presenting papers on leadership and crisis management in higher education.[4]
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EcoVolt generates energy from wastewater - Science Nation
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♫MUSIC♫ MILES O'BRIEN: Do you enjoy an occasional sip of the grape? Bet you didn't know that on average, it takes 5-7 gallons of water to make one bottle of wine. And water is a pricey commodity. Cleaning and recycling all the waste-water is no bargain either. Wineries typically use aeration pumps - which drink-up tons of energy - and profits. MATT SILVER: They're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars every year just to power the pumps to push air through their wastewater to treat it. MILES O'BRIEN: The Clos Du Bois Winery in Sonoma, California wants to reverse that trend – and is testing a new system that not only cleans the water, but generates energy too. JUSTIN BUCK: And, we're leading the efforts to be commercializing this and getting it deployed at a commercial scale for industrial customers. MILES O'BRIEN: With support from the National Science Foundation, engineers and co-founders Matt Silver and Justin Buck at Cambrian Innovation are bringing this research from the lab to the market. One system - called "EcoVolt" - generates methane gas from the waste-water. MATT SILVER: EcoVolt leverages what's called electromethanogenesis... MILES O'BRIEN: Here's how it works: A wireless signal allows the process to be monitored remotely. The Cambrian system sends waste-water through what's called a bio-electrochemical reactor. As water filters through it, special bacteria in the reactor eat the organic waste in the water and release electrons as a byproduct. Those electrons travel through a circuit – to generate methane or CH4. MATT SILVER: We're actually generating a very high-quality methane which will be used to power what's called combined heat and power system. MILES O'BRIEN: The gas is piped out of the system to an engine - where it's burned with a small amount of natural gas to generate heat and electricity for the vineyard. BRIAN HEMPHILL: It helped us realize that waste water is a potential source of energy... and using the right treatment methods with minimal energy input, we can receive quite a bit of benefit. MATT SILVER: Overall we have a huge reduction in the carbon footprint for the winery as well as savings of upwards of over two-hundred thousand dollars a year. MILES O'BRIEN: Sensor systems built by Cambrian Innovation can also monitor pollutant levels in real time – fertilizer run-off, for example, or pollution levels in lakes and rivers. JUSTIN BUCK: The goal would be to monitor and to be able to identify if a spike in a contaminant has occurred and to try to address it before it becomes a larger problem. MILES O'BRIEN: Silver expects many industries to benefit from systems like the EcoVolt - from fisheries to waste water treatment plants. Making water that was once wasted.... into a valuable source of energy. For Science Nation, I'm Miles O'Brien.
Education
In 1992, Hemphill received a B.A. in organizational communication from St. Augustine's University. In 1994, he earned an M.S. in journalism and mass communication from Iowa State University. In 1998, he earned a Ph.D. in higher education administration and policy studies at the University of Iowa.[5]
External links
- West Virginia State announcement
- Radford University President's page Archived 2016-11-22 at the Wayback Machine
- Old Dominion University President-elect's page Archived 2021-02-12 at the Wayback Machine
Sources
- ^ "BRIAN O. HEMPHILL OFFERED WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENCY". West Virginia State (Press Release). May 9, 2012.
- ^ Speciale, Samuel (December 16, 2015). "West Virginia State University chief Brian Hemphill named president of Radford". Charleston Gazette-Mail (News Report).
- ^ "President". Old Dominion University. Archived from the original on 2021-02-18. Retrieved 2021-02-12.
- ^ "BRIAN O. HEMPHILL OFFERED WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENCY". West Virginia State (Press Release). May 9, 2012.
- ^ "Board of Visitors selects Dr. Brian O. Hemphill as next Radford University president". Radford University. December 16, 2015. Retrieved November 24, 2016.