Duke Superfund Blog

RTC Leads Duke Seminar on Science Communication and Community Engagement

By Catherine Kastleman, Program Coordinator for Research Translation and Community Engagement, Research Translation Core, Duke University Superfund Research Center Dr ...

Fighting the “Fires” of Toxic Exposure: Preventing, Limiting, and Treating Toxicant-Induced Damage

By Edward D. Levin, Ph.D., Duke University (edlevin@duke.edu) Toxicologists have made significant progress in identifying some toxic chemical exposures that ...

The Omnipresence of Flame Retardants

By Sonum Tharwani Why am I writing about flame retardants? I’m writing about them because they’re more common in your ...

Essen and Monessen: Production, Destruction, and the Process of Renewal

By Edward D. Levin, Ph.D., Duke University (edlevin@duke.edu) The industrial revolution was largely fueled by coal. Heavy industry, notably steel ...

The Stockholm Convention

By Margaret Morales The 2001 Stockholm Convention was convened to draft a global treaty for the regulation of persistent organic ...

Our Foam Findings

By Gretchen Kroeger This February, our Analytical Chemistry Core (working closely with the Research Translation Core) started offering a new ...