By Bryan Luukinen Last summer, staff from the Duke Superfund Research Center (SRC) staff packed their bags in Durham and drove up to the Hampton Roads area of Virginia to talk to anglers fishing in the Elizabeth River. Their goal: to find out more about the anglers’ fishing habits and […]
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By Katelyn Liu Skimming through the document posted on a bulletin board in the UNC Gillings School of Public Health titled, “Summer Research Internship Description,” my immediate thought was, “This is not for me.” I knew my skillset as a public policy major and it certainly had nothing to do […]
By Eileen Thorsos At a university like Duke, we have access to a wealth of information in journal articles – information that literally costs an incredible amount of money if you as an individual were to pay for it yourself. Sometimes – frequently – those journal articles aren’t easily […]
By Alexandra Valladares , 2014 Superfund Trainee When I first arrived to the City of Medicine, it felt like a desolate place in comparison to the colorful vibrancy of Miami. Now that I’ve lived in Durham for half my life, it feels like a blossoming place full of hidden […]
Last week, 11 of us from Duke attended the 2013 Superfund Annual Meeting, hosted by Louisiana State University and held right along the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge. This year’s conference has been an opportunity to reunite with other Superfund Research Programs across the country and discuss the cutting-edge research […]
Last Thursday, May 30th, a group from the Superfund Research Center made the drive to Portsmouth, Virginia with a full day planned. The crew included Dr. Bryan Clark (Postdoctoral Associate), Gretchen Kroeger (Project Coordinator with the Research Translation Core), Liting Chen (a new REU student working in Dr. Di […]
By Claire Carson, REU intern 2012 On my first day as a research translation trainee, I showed up at 8:30 sharp, armed with laptop, notebook, and only a vague idea of what research translation actually entailed. Judging by the website’s description, it was simply communicating research results. I envisioned […]