by campus | Sep 16, 2014 | Media Coverage of PROTECT, PROTECT Team, Research Core D (Data Management & Modeling)
PROTECT investigator Ferdi Hellweger’s work was recently published in the journal Science. In collaboration with his graduate student, Neil Frederick, and Erik van Sebille from the University of New South Wales, Australia, Professor Hellweger quantified the...
by campus | Sep 5, 2014 | Media Coverage of PROTECT, PROTECT Team
On September 1, 2014, the Washington Post published an article by Jill U. Adams entitled, “Are parabens and phthalates harmful in makeup and lotions?” in which John D. Meeker (Project 1) and Julia Brody (Core F: Community Engagement) are quoted as experts...
by campus | Jul 28, 2014 | Media Coverage of PROTECT, PROTECT Team
The Chronicle of Higher Education released a in-depth look at the PROTECT project, entitled “Born Too Soon: Can pollution lead to premature births?” The piece, written by Paul Voosen, reviews how the various disciplines within the project fit together to...
by campus | Jun 4, 2014 | Enrichment Core F (Community Engagement), Media Coverage of PROTECT, Project 1 (Targeted Epidemiology), Project 2 (Toxicology), Project 3 (Non-targeted Analysis), Project 4 (Fate & Transport), Project 5 (Green Remediation), PROTECT Research, PROTECT Team, Research Core C (Human Subjects & Sampling), Research Core D (Data Management & Modeling)
PROTECT has received a five-year, $13.5 million renewal award from the National Institutes of Health to continue its interdisciplinary investigation into the complex relationship between contamination and preterm birth. Click here to access the full...
by campus | Nov 21, 2013 | Media Coverage of PROTECT, News on Premature Birth, Project 1 (Targeted Epidemiology)
This week PROTECT Project 1 leader, John D. Meeker, ScD, and trainee Kelly Ferguson, MPH, published an article in JAMA Pediatrics on the relationship between preterm birth and chemical phthalate exposure during pregnancy. The JAMA article highlights the prevalence of...
by campus | Aug 4, 2013 | Media Coverage of PROTECT, PROTECT Events and Presentations, Research Core C (Human Subjects & Sampling)
On July 30th PROTECT was featured in El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico’s most widely-read newspaper. The story, entitled Retos del Parto Prematuro (“Challenges of Preterm Birth”), raised awareness of the problem of preterm birth on the island and described...
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