by campus | May 20, 2015 | Project 4 (Fate & Transport), PROTECT Team
Dr. Ingrid Padilla, PROTECT Project 4 Leader, has received the 2014 Distinguished Professor Award in Civil Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico. The award honors her outstanding teaching, research, and service contribution to the institution. At PROTECT, Dr....
by campus | May 16, 2015 | Project 5 (Green Remediation), PROTECT Team
The 2014 Freedom Industrial chemical spill affected the drinking water supply of 300,000 people in Charleston, West Virginia metropolitan area. In the wake of the spill, one of the most pressing concerns was understanding the impact of the chemical spill, as the main...
by campus | May 11, 2015 | Enrichment Core B (Research Translation), Enrichment Core F (Community Engagement), PROTECT Team
Phil Brown, Director of the Research Translation Core and Co-Director of the Community Engagement Core, has received a $343,163 grant from the National Science Foundation to study “Perfluorinated Chemicals: The Social Discovery of a Class of Emerging Contaminants.”...
by campus | May 7, 2015 | PROTECT Team, Research Core C (Human Subjects & Sampling)
Human Subjects Core trainee Andrea L. González (Advisor: Jose Cordero) started her externship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia with Victor De Jesus, Ph.D., Chief of the Biochemical Mass Spectrometry Laboratory in the Newborn...
by campus | May 7, 2015 | Events, Project 1 (Targeted Epidemiology), PROTECT Team
On April 29, trainee Kelly Ferguson gave a talk at the 8th Copenhagen Workshop on Endocrine Disrupters. Her talk, entitled “Developmental effects of phthalates: what are the mechanisms?” introduced the PROTECT cohort and summarized preliminary findings on...
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