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...
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
Emily Briese, Project 4 trainee and doctoral student in Paul Westerhoff's lab at Arizona State University (ASU), will present two posters on her water filtration work this February and March. at ASU events.... Read more about Emily Briese to present work on selective adsorption
Congratulations to Charlotte Wirth, doctoral candidate and Project 2 trainee in Quan Lu's lab at HSPH, on winning a 2022 NIEHS Superfund Research Program KC Donnelly Externship Award. Charlotte's externship will entail research at the University of California, Berkeley... Read more about Charlotte Wirth wins prestigious KC Donnelly Externship Award