Watch "The lasting impact of the baby tooth project in St. Louis", featuring the work of the MEMCARE-SRC Project 1 research team. The study investigates how levels of metals in baby teeth are related to cognition and health in later life. The 9+ minute story ran on February 28 on Fox 2 in St. Louis and will play on 2/29 on KPLR at 7 p.m central time., and 3/3 on Fox 2 at 10 p.m. central time. Read more about the study here.
Kathy James of our CEC Colorado group is working with local communites to study how drought is intensifying the levels of heavy metals, especially arsenic, in drinking water from private wells in Colorado and the west. Read the story on NPR.org.
Project 4's latest work on filtering arsenic from drinking water is featured in NIEHS's Environmental Factor newsletter. See Culinary-inspired technique removes arsenic from water. The study, pubished in Environmental Science and Technology, was conducted in Paul Westerhoff's lab at Arizona State University. Authors include MEMCARE trainees Alireza Farsad and Mariana Marcos...
Azariah Boyd, CEC trainee in Tamarra James-Todd's lab at HSPH, completed her Master of Science in Environmental Health Epidemiology in December! Her thesis, "Assessing Effectiveness of an Indoor Air Purification Intervention on PM Levels: The Impact of Season and Time of Day on Patients with Atrial Fibrillation", ... Read more about Congratulations to Azariah Boyd on completing master's degree
Over the Halloween weekend, the Superfund CEC participated in the annual New England Franklin Park Zoo Howl. Our booth provided handouts designed by members of our team adapted from Boston’s Annual Water Quality Report.
Congratulations to Emily Briese and Obinna Kwokonkwo, the 2023-2024 co-presidents of the NEWT Student and Postdoc Leadership Council. Both are doctoral candidates at Arizona State University School of Engineering and Project 4 trainees.... Read more about Breise and Nwokonkwo elected NEWT SPLC Co-Presidents
Congratulations to Obinna Nwokonkow, who was selected as a 2023 NEWT Fellow in recognition of his service on the NEWT Students and Postdocs Leadership Council (SPLC) as the Professional Development Chair.... Read more about Obinna Nwokonkwo selected as 2023 NEWT Fellow
Mona Dai, Project 3 trainee, gave a 'brown bag seminar' with Cindy Xu of Mathematica to the Geographic Data Science Lab at the University of Liverpool on May 24. The talk was entitled, 'Mapping the Invisible: Using Data Science to Improve Drinking Water Quality, Public Heatlh and Health Equity'.... Read more about Mona Dai presents research to University of Liverpool