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UNC faculty train North Carolina wastewater treatment plant operators

October 05, 2007

Dr. Donald Francisco

More than 7,200 North Carolina wastewater treatment plant operators owe their training to Dr. Donald Francisco, clinical professor emeritus of environmental sciences and engineering at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Francisco coordinated the North Carolina Annual School for Wastewater Treatment Plant Operators for 32 years (1971 to 2003). The curriculum and instructors are approved and selected by a committee of the N.C. Water Environment Association. Francisco chaired that committee for 33 years. In 2003, in recognition of his service, the N.C. chapter of the American Works Association and Water Environment Association, named Francisco the first recipient of a new award named in his honor -- the "Donald E. Francisco Educator of the Year Award."

-- by Kathleen Kearns

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Carolina Public Health is a publication of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. To subscribe to Carolina Public Health or to view the entire Fall 2007 issue in PDF, visit www.sph.unc.edu/cph.

Last updated August 28, 2008

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