Dr. Claudia Gunsch, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and ITEHP faculty member, is the the Director of the new Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr), one of four recently created National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Centers. The PreMiEr project, collaborative with researchers from four other NC […]
Awards
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Marissa Guttenberg, rising fourth-year ITEHP student, recently was selected for the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Science Communications Training Award. This award is the result of a new collaboration between SOT and the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University, focusing on enhancing SOT members’ ability to effectively […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]