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.

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.

Once 'paradise,' parched Colorado valley grapples with arsenic in water.

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The Community Engagement Core participated in the Boston Franklin Park Zoo’s Spring into Action: Earth Day Event on Saturday April 22.  The CEC team had a demonstration that showed community members how Boston gets its tap water.... Read more about CEC participates in Franklin Park Zoo's Earth Day Event

Project 4 postdoc Mariana Marcos-Hernandez orchestrated an outreach event to a STEM-focused high school in Phoenix, AZ to teach students about safe drinking water.... Read more about Marcos-Hernandez teaches local high school students about arsenic in water

Mariana Marcos-Hernandez and lab-mate Alireza Farsad reached out to a community in Florence, AZ, where reports from the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (AZDEQ) indicated arsenic levels in well water above the MCL of 10 ppb.... Read more about Novel water filter device deployed in Florence, AZ

During Halloween weekend the Superfund community engagement team and trainees participated the annual Zoo Howl at Franklin Park Zoo. Our booth contained a water filter experiment,... Read more about CEC team teaches about clean water at Franklin Park Zoo Howl

Congratulations to Tamarra James-Todd who will receive the 12th Annual Alice Hamilton Award from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. This award by the Committee on the Advancement of Women Faculty (CAWF)... Read more about Tamarra James-Todd receives 12th Annual Alice Hamilton Award

More than 70 trainees, professors, community advocates, and folks with a variety of backgrounds came together on August 15^th and 16^th for an in-depth online boot camp on the theories and methods to study environmental health disparities and environmental justice (EJ).

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The MEMCARE-SRC CEC Boston team partnered with the Boston Nature Center and the Bethel Social Justice Institute to conduct two Metals and Environmental Justice summer camp curricula designed by our team... Read more about CEC Boston team presents Metals & Environmental Justice summer camp curricula