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  • Brown SRP paper wins award at SOT Meeting
    2017-04-07 13:27

    A 2016 Brown University SRP paper, From the Cover: Sperm Molecular Biomarkers Are Sensitive Indicators of Testicular Injury following Subchronic Model Toxicant Exposure, won the Best Paper award for the Reproductive and...

  • Brown SRP Trainee Jennifer Guelfo spoke at ITRC Annual Meeting
    2017-04-03 10:22

    Dr. Jennifer Guelfo, State Agency Liaison Postdoctoral Fellow, gave a talk entitled “Per AND Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) in Groundwater: An Overview of Fate and Transport” at the annual meeting of the Interstate Technology and...

  • Robert Hurt invited to give nanosafety talk at ACS National Meeting
    2017-03-31 10:30

    Robert Hurt, Director of the Brown Superfund Research Program, will be giving an invited talk at the 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, which is being held in San Francisco, CA on April 2-6, 2017.  Dr. Hurt’s...

  • Ruben Spitz Wins 1st Place
    2016-12-14 15:38

    At the Superfund Annual Meeting, part of the NIEHS 50th Anniversary celebration in Durham, North Carolina, graduate student Ruben Spitz won first place in the environmental sciences and engineering category for his poster “Breathable Graphene...

  • Brown contributes to the Environmental Health Sciences FEST
    2016-12-14 15:12

    NIEHS celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year, and this past month hosted an institute-wide, four-day celebratory event called the Environmental Health Sciences FEST in Durham, NC. Over 1300 attendees engaged in presentations and panel...

  • Grad Student April Rodd Takes a Break from Thesis Writing to Present at SETAC and SNO
    2016-12-12 15:26

    In the midst of thesis writing graduate student, April Rodd, took time to share her research on determining the aquatic toxicity of carbon nanomaterials alone and in mixtures with aromatic hydrocarbons at two conferences in Orlando, FL....

  • Jennifer Back in Albany Talking PFAs in Groundwater
    2016-11-10 13:52

    Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM), though largely focused on air quality, is particularly interested in links between atmospheric deposition and the drinking water impacts recently discovered in several New England...

  • Teaching Toxicity: Challenges and opportunities for scientifically engaged art educators
    2016-11-10 09:38

    Visualizing the context in which research occurs is a difficult exercise without lived experience. On October 12, the Boekelheide lab hosted, this informal tour and seminar was intended to give participants a glimpse into the culture and context...

  • Monthly Seminar: Nanotechnology to the Rescue
    2016-11-09 08:54

    November 18 we will be joined by Dr. Philip Demokritou, Director of the Harvard-NIEHS Nanosafety Research Center and Director of the Center for Nanotechnology and Nanotoxicology at Harvard University’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health,...

  • Brown SRP Research Published in Proc. of Nat. Acad. Sciences
    2016-10-27 15:14

    The interdisciplinary work conducted within Projects 2 and 4 of the Brown Superfund Center has led to a new finding described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The SRP team collaborated with...