Nicholas School of the Environment
Skip to content
Back Home
  • About
    • About the Program
    • People
      • INVESTIGATORS
      • TRAINEES
        • TRAINEE VIDEOS
        • TRAINEE MINI-GRANTS
      • STAFF
      • EXTERNAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
    • Funding
    • Our Partners
  • Research
    • Project 1 – Prenatal Exposure & Neurodevelopment
    • Project 2 – Mechanisms of Neurobehavioral Toxicity
    • Project 3 – Mitochondrial & Cellular Neurotoxicity Mechanisms
    • Project 4 – Ecological Impacts, Adaptation, & Fitness Costs
    • Project 5 – Precision Bioremediation
  • Publications
  • Support Cores
  • Community Engagement
  • News & Events
    • Duke Superfund in the News
    • Newsletter Sign-up
    • Newsletter Archive
    • Spring 2025 ITEHP Seminar Series
    • Job Postings
  • Resources
    • Duke Superfund Blog
    • Videos
  • Search
Back Home
  • About
    • About the Program
    • People
      • INVESTIGATORS
      • TRAINEES
        • TRAINEE VIDEOS
        • TRAINEE MINI-GRANTS
      • STAFF
      • EXTERNAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
    • Funding
    • Our Partners
  • Research
    • Project 1 – Prenatal Exposure & Neurodevelopment
    • Project 2 – Mechanisms of Neurobehavioral Toxicity
    • Project 3 – Mitochondrial & Cellular Neurotoxicity Mechanisms
    • Project 4 – Ecological Impacts, Adaptation, & Fitness Costs
    • Project 5 – Precision Bioremediation
  • Publications
  • Support Cores
  • Community Engagement
  • News & Events
    • Duke Superfund in the News
    • Newsletter Sign-up
    • Newsletter Archive
    • Spring 2025 ITEHP Seminar Series
    • Job Postings
  • Resources
    • Duke Superfund Blog
    • Videos
News

Heather Stapleton research cited in NC Policy Watch article on a potential thyroid cancer cluster in Iredell County, NC

Published March 22, 2019

NC Policy Watch - "Duke U. scientists to focus on radon, coal ash, flame retardants in Iredell thyroid cancer cluster probe"

  • Stapleton
  • Project 2
  • cancer
  • thyroid
  • iredell

You may also like

Published January 23, 2015

Safety Standards and Weighing Risks

By Margaret Morales & Gretchen Kroeger In my last post I wrote about the Stockholm Convention Treaty for the international regulation of […]

Published February 3, 2020

Heather Stapleton describes nature of PFAS pollution in Haw River, as Mark Ruffalo shines spotlight on PFAS issues in NC

Heather Stapleton and Lee Ferguson’s PFAS research in the Haw River and Pittsboro, NC was mentioned, and Dr. Stapleton was quoted in […]

Published June 24, 2019

PRIMO20 Conference Highlights

From May 19-22, nine Duke Superfund Center researchers representing research projects 1-4 participated in the 20th symposium on Pollutant Responses in Marine […]

Published October 1, 2019

Heather Stapleton and NC State researchers brief Pittsboro, NC officials about the presence of PFAS and 1,4-Dioxane in the town’s drinking water

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

© 2025 Duke University Superfund Research Center – All rights reserved

Powered by WP – Designed with the Customizr theme

©2025 Nicholas School of the Environment | Duke University | Durham, NC, USA

Site Login >

Insert icon

Icon effect:

Icon color:

Icon size:

Icon align:

Icon custom classes ( type CSS class names without dots, separate them by hitting enter/space/comma key ):