by campus | Apr 29, 2016 | Enrichment Core F (Community Engagement), Events
Dr. Vélez Vega, Co-Leader of the Community Engagement Core, and trainee Colleen Murphy represented PROTECT at the 2nd Annual Rochester Global Health Symposium and UNYTE Scientific Session on April 21st, 2016. The theme of the conference was “Innovative Solutions to...
by campus | Apr 29, 2016 | Enrichment Core F (Community Engagement), Events
Dr. Carmen M. Vélez Vega, Community Engagement Core Co-Leader, presented research findings at the 2016 Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference. The Conference, held from April 9th to 11th in San Francisco, focused on sustainable solutions to...
by campus | Apr 28, 2016 | Events, PROTECT Team, PROTECT Webinar Series
On Monday, May 9th, PROTECT hosted the fourth installment in our webinar series, Collaboration for Innovation. This webinar featured Curt Spalding, EPA Region 1 Administrator, who presented “EPA New England Update: Innovation and Collaboration on Hazardous Waste...
by campus | Apr 22, 2016 | News on Environmental Health
On April 14th, the Food and Drug Administration approved the addition of folic acid—a B vitamin known to prevent birth defects—to corn masa flour. The announcement comes after four years of efforts by the March of Dimes and PROTECT’s Co-Director Dr. José Cordero. For...
by campus | Apr 20, 2016 | News on Environmental Health
On April 6th, 2016, the US EPA proposed the addition of the Dorado Groundwater Contamination Site to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). Recent sampling at this site has found contamination from tetrachloroethylene (also called perchloroethylene, or PCE) and...
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