Tess Leuthner, sixth-year ITEHP student in the Meyer lab, has been selected by The Graduate School to receive the 2021 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring. A committee of graduate deans, faculty, and graduate students selected Leuthner from a highly competitive pool of nominees to receive this award, recognizing her […]
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The Toxicology & Environmental Health Spring 2021 Seminar Series starts this Thursday, January 14th, at 12:00 pm Eastern Time! Our post-doc alum, Kathleen Hershberger, PhD – now at Grinnell College – will be kicking off the series with her talk, “Persistent mitochondrial and epigenetic effects of early-life arsenic exposure in C. […]
The flame retardant research of Heather Stapleton, ITEHP faculty, was recently featured in a New York Times parenting article. The article, the final installment in a three-part series exploring some of the most dangerous toxins found in the average American home, discusses the prevalence and impact of flame retardants in […]
As a member of the Bass Connections team “Bioremediation of Plastic Pollution to Conserve Marine Biodiversity,” Zoie Diana, ITEHP student and PhD student in Marine Science & Conservation, and her colleagues recently published an article entitled, “Plastic pollution solutions: emerging technologies to prevent and collect marine plastic pollution” in Environment International. This article reviewed 52 […]
Rose Schrott, ITEHP trainee, received the First Place Award for Trainee Talks on November 9th for her presentation at the Genetics and Environmental Mutagenesis Society of North Carolina’s (GEMS-NC) Fall 2020 Meeting! Her winning presentation was entitled “Let’s Be Blunt: Paternal Cannabis Smoke Extract Exposure in Rats Induces Heritable Epigenetic […]
Donald P. McDonnell, PhD, Glaxo-Wellcome Distinguished Professor of Molecular Cancer Biology in the School of Medicine, Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Professor in Medicine, and ITEHP faculty, was recently recognized with this year’s Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction in Basic Science by Susan G. Komen®, the world’s leading breast […]
ITEHP faculty member, William Pan, DrPH, was nominated by parties and stakeholders of the MINAMATA Convention on Mercury, an international treaty designed to protect human health and the environment from emissions and releases of mercury, to serve on a panel of experts that will draft guidelines for monitoring global mercury […]
Tom Augspurger, PhD, was recently awarded the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) Government Service Award. This award is given to a person in recognition of exemplary dedication and service toward promoting the collective application of environmental toxicology and chemistry to risk assessment in a government function, promoting programs […]
We are excited to welcome five new ITEHP students this fall! Christina Bergemann has her bachelor’s in Environmental Science and has been working for the past two years in the Meyer lab investigating how preconception exposure to toxicants alters mitochondrial function in offspring Beverly deSouza is joining us after graduating […]
Paige Varner, a fifth-year ITEHP student pursuing her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, was recently selected as a winner of the NIEHS Superfund Research Program’s K.C. Donnelly Externship Award. Through the K.C. Donnelly externship, Varner will be spending 3 months at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) in Dr. Joshua […]
Professor Dan Richter’s Durham soil lead mapping project has completed its first phase of sampling and analysis. The project is led by PhD student, Anna Wade, and has been supported by undergraduate and graduate students in the spring and fall of 2019 and spring of 2020. Wade will submit the […]
Sven-Eric Jordt, PhD, ITEHP faculty, recently commented in several press stories about the toxicity of tear gas and related chemical substances, both on their own and in the current context of COVID-19. Click the links below to read the recent features. Corrosive Effects of Tear Gas Could Intensify Coronavirus Pandemic; […]
Richard Di Giulio, PhD, ITEHP Director, is also the Duke University Superfund Research Center (DUSRC) Director. He is the lead PI of a DUSCRC project focused on understanding the mechanisms and consequences of killifish adaptations to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Work performed by the Di Giulio lab was recently featured […]
ITEHP student, Matthew Ruis, was recently honored as a recipient of the 2020 Nicholas School Dean’s Award for Best Graduate Student Manuscript! Dean Toddi Steelman selected the top three papers published by Duke Nicholas School of the Environment students over the past year. Ruis was selected for his peer-reviewed paper, […]
Congratulations to ITEHP’s own Sam Hall and Kirsten Overdahl for being selected as recipients of the 2019 Pat McClellan-Green Student Travel Award! Each year, only 2-4 awards are given to eligible student members of CSETAC to fund travel to the annual SETAC North American Meeting, so we are thrilled to […]