by campus | Aug 14, 2012 | Project 5 (Green Remediation), PROTECT Research
PROTECT Director and Project 5 leader Akram Alshawabkeh and his team recently saw their work in novel methods for groundwater decontamination published by the SRP as part of its Research Briefs series. The Research Brief, published in July, highlights a recent paper...
by campus | Jun 1, 2012 | Project 1 (Targeted Epidemiology), PROTECT Events and Presentations, PROTECT Research, PROTECT Team
Project 1 Leader John Meeker recently gave a TED-style talk on Endocrine Disruptors as part of the UMich Environmental Sciences Department’s 125th anniversary celebration.
by campus | Mar 26, 2012 | Project 2 (Toxicology), PROTECT Research
An article in Science of the Total Environment co-authored by Project 2 Leader Rita Loch-Caruso has described work by her and her colleagues showing that PBDEs (a chemical found in flame retardants and considered to hurt brain development) are present in amniotic...
by campus | Aug 23, 2011 | PROTECT Research, Research Core C (Human Subjects & Sampling)
PROTECT is proud to announce the first baby in the study cohort was born on August 19, 2011. Our congratulations to the family! Learn more about the Human Subjects and Sampling Core which is working directly with the women (and babies) in the study cohort...
by campus | Jul 11, 2011 | Project 1 (Targeted Epidemiology), PROTECT Research
Project 1 leader John Meeker and his graduate student Kelly Ferguson have jointly published a paper in Environmental Health Perspectives that links BPA and altered thyroid activity. As told by the U. of Michigan News Service: ANN ARBOR, Mich.—A link between chemicals...
by campus | Jun 4, 2011 | Project 4 (Fate & Transport), Project 5 (Green Remediation), PROTECT Events and Presentations, PROTECT Research
PROTECT researchers Prof. Dorothy Vesper and graduate student Amanda Laskoskie (West Virginia University) recently took another trip to Buckeye Cave (Amanda’s local research site that she uses to develop the models that will be used to understand how pollutants may...
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