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  • Eric Suuberg Takes SRP Vapor Intrusion Work to China
    2016-10-04 11:53

    Dr. Eric Suuberg spent the week, September 19-22, 2016, in China speaking on his Superfund work with vapor intrusion. He started off the week at Beijing Institute of Environmental Sciences speaking about early Brown SRP work on Vapor ...

  • Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials
    2016-10-04 11:43

    11th International Conference on the Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials (ICEENN 2016), Golden, CO; Brown SRP Project 3 research “Environmental and biological transformations of emerging two-dimensional...

  • Dr. Laura Senier Returns to SRP for Guest Lecture
    2016-10-04 10:00

    Dr. Laura Senier, M.P.H., Ph.D. will be returning to Brown as this month’s Superfund Seminar Series lecturer. Dr. Senier, as an assistant professor of...

  • Graphene Research presented at Carbon 2016
    2016-09-01 09:24

    Graduate student, Ruben Spitz, presented the poster Breathable Graphene Oixde Toxicant Barriers at the Carbon 2016 Conference, July 10-15, 2016. Mr. Spitz conducted this research as part of the ...

  • Superfund Seminar Series Begins September 9
    2016-08-25 14:26

    Dr. Joel Pedersen will be joining us for the first Superfund Seminar Series of the 2016-2017 season. Friday, September 9, 2016, Dr. Pedersen, professor of environmental organic and biophysical chemistry; behavior of organic chemicals,...

  • Vapor Intrusion Highlighted in Recent Article
    2016-08-17 15:06

    Dr. Suuberg’s work on vapor intrusion was highlighted in Environmental Health Perspectives. See article: “It Came from Beneath: Detecting and Mitigating Vapor Intrusion.”...

  • HAZWOPER Training
    2016-08-17 15:03

    Faculty, students, postdocs, and staff participated in an 8- and 24-hour Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard (HAZWOPER) training conducted by the New England Consortium at University of Massachusetts Lowell. This 24-hour...

  • Dr. Annette von dem Bussche Wins Prize at Nanotox2016
    2016-08-17 11:45

    International Nanotoxiocology Congress held Nanotox2016 in Boston, MA, June 1st through 4th. Brown University Superfund Research Program was...

  • Senator Reed and Director Birnbaum Visit Brown SRP
    2016-08-17 11:41

    U.S. Senator Jack Reed and Dr. Linda Birnbaum, director of the National Institutes for Environmental Health Sciences, visited the Brown University Superfund Research Program to hear from our faculty, students, and community partners about the...

  • Brown SRP Co-Organizes Workshop on Perfluorinated Contaminants
    2016-08-17 11:23

    Jennifer Guelfo, Engineering State Agency Liaison organized and presented at a workshop with New England Waste Management Officials’ Association (NEWMOA) on the topic of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS, e.g. PFOS/PFOA). 130...