UAB professor struck, killed by Greyhound bus in Atlanta

<p>A man struck and killed by a Greybound bus while walking in a crosswalk in Atlanta was an associate professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, officials said.</p><p>H. Kenneth Dillon, a 56-year-old associate professor of environmental health sciences, was crossing Courtland Street Sunday morning, when a bus turned left and struck him, Atlanta police Sgt. John Quigley said Monday.</p><p>Dillon was hit by the back of the bus. He was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Quigley said.</p><p>The bus driver, Mary Spooney, 46, was charged with second-degree vehicular homicide and failure to yield to a pedestrian in the crosswalk.</p><p>Family members said Dillon was in Atlanta attending a conference.</p><p>Dillon joined UAB's School of Public Health in 1985 after working for 12 years as a chemist at Southern Research Institute. He obtained his bachelor's in chemistry at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and then earned his master's and doctoral degrees in physical chemistry at Vanderbilt University.</p><p>Among the courses he taught at UAB were environmental chemistry, air sampling and analysis and industrial hygiene.</p><p>Dillon also worked on "Healthy Homes," a program that trained some neighborhood residents to monitor homes in their communities for environmental hazards, such as lead poisoning.</p><p>"It moved him. There are a lot of kids in better homes because of him," said co-worker Lynn Battle.</p><p>Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Morgan's Funeral Home in Gardendale, with burial at Walker Chapel Memorial Gardens in Fultondale.</p>