Environmental Factor, a monthly journal released by NIEHS, revisited our Fall 2013 Symposium on “Rapidly Emerging Nanomaterials: Insuring Human and Environmental Health” in this month’s edition. Follow this link to read the article.
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Dr. William Orem, USGS, Reston, VA, will be visiting us next Monday, December 2nd for a talk on “Health Effects of Energy Resources”. Dr. Orem is a geochemist who has been active in recent years in assessing contaminant release and potential exposures associated with mountaintop coal mining in West Virginia. […]
John Peterson “Pete” Myers, one of America’s leading endocrinologists, will present a free talk, “Endocrine Disruption: A Global Public Health Threat, and a Global Opportunity for Prevention,” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, in Love Auditorium. A Q&A will follow his talk. Myers is founder, CEO and chief scientist […]
WHAT: 13th Annual North Carolina PhD Career Fair WHEN: Thurs Nov 21, 12-4 pm WHERE: The Friday Center, UNC-Chapel Hill (http://www.fridaycenter.unc.edu/directions/index.htm) REGISTER: https://sites.google.com/site/ncmastersphdfair/ . Postdocs who register by 5 pm Tues Nov 19 will receive a pre-printed nametag (first and last name) at the Fair. The North Carolina PhD Fair is a collaboration […]
Dr. Heather Stapleton, an ITEHP faculty member, will be giving a presentation this afternoon (Thursday, November 7) and 4:40PM in LSRC A247. The focus of her talk is on TSCA (Toxic Substances Control Act, 1976) while asking how well the system has worked to manage chemicals in commerce. She will be […]
Come hear professors Katherine Franz and Stephen Craig talk about their experience using graphical abstracts and mini-presentations to help summer REU students get more out of their project time. Friday, Nov 1 Noon – 1pm D106 LSRC Katherine Franz & Stephen Craig · Duke Chemistry (work done with Andrew Franks […]
Rapidly Emerging Nanomaterials: Insuring Human and Environmental Health Fall 2013 ITEHP Symposium Thursday, October 31, 2013, Doris Duke Center, Duke Gardens REGISTER Agenda here You will receive an e-mail confirmation and reminder on October 28th.
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Rapidly Emerging Nanomaterials: Insuring Human and Environmental Health Fall 2013 ITEHP Symposium Thursday, October 31, 2013, Doris Duke Center, Duke Gardens REGISTER 8:00-8:30: Registration & Continental Breakfast 8:30-8:45: Welcome and Overview; Mark Wiesner, Ph.D. and Richard Di Giulio, Ph.D., Duke University 8:45-9:30: Nanomaterials and Human Health: The Good and the Bad; Andre Nel, M.D., […]
If you are planning on attending the NCSOT meeting, October 24th, please fill out this poll so we can get an idea of which/how many ITEHP students will be attending. Thanks! [form form-1]
Dr. Bruce Blumberg, UC Irvine, will kick off the Fall ITEHP Seminar series with a talk titled, “Obesogens, Stem Cells and the Transgenerational Programming of Obesity”. Please join us on 9/6/13 in LSRC A247 at Noon for Dr. Blumberg’s presentation.
Wolfgang Liedtke, M.D., PhD, is an associate professor of medicine/neurology and neurobiology as well as a member of the ITEHP faculty. For more information on his team’s findings visit Duke Health
Several summer 2013 research training opportunities (Env Health, Toxicology) are available at Duke and other institutions.