Hot off the press! 🚨 The Summer 2024 edition of “Your Health and the Environment,” the University of Rochester Environmental Health Sciences Center newsletter. 📰 ⬇️ urmc.rochester.edu/MediaLibraries…

Check out these science camp kids in Texas learning about #OneHealth with SEPA activities created by Dr. Dina Markowitz's group at the University of Rochester Life Sciences Learning Center.

Krystal Ni, University of Rochester undergrad research assistant, received an Excellence in Research Award at the Central & Eastern European Conference on Health & the Environment. She presented the findings of a lit review on the ethics of wastewater monitoring for COVID-19.🎉 #URochesterResearch

Lisa DeLouise, James McGrath, Alison Elder, Sarah Morgan urmc_toxicology & Samantha Romanick University of Rochester - Biomedical Engineering are co-authors of "Understanding Human Health Impacts Following Microplastic Exposure Necessitates Standardized Protocols". 📢 #URochesterResearch University of Rochester pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39018010/

Katrina Korfmacher, Jacques Robert, and University of Rochester undergrad Rosebell Onuma provide insights on #microplastics research at the new URochester SMD and RIT Lake Ontario Center for Microplastics and Human Health. #URochesterResearch spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny…

Rosebell Onuma, a rising senior University of Rochester environmental health major, presented her #microplastics research in Jacques Robert's lab at the McNair summer scholars research symposium. #URochesterResearch

Hae-Ryung Park, along with colleagues from URochester SMD and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is lead author of a paper in Nature Communications that provides insights into the placental response to environmental stress. 📢 #URochesterResearch nature.com/articles/s4146…

"Growing up with German Shepherds fueled my fascination with learning and social behavior." marissa sobolewski embraces scientific complexity & collaboration, inspired by her early research in Uganda’s Kibale National Park. 🔗: urmc.info/1Fu #URochesterResearch

Congrats to Pablo Reina-Gonzalez, a urmc_toxicology grad student in Souvarish Sarkar's lab, for being accepted into the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics ASPET Washington Fellows program! 🎉 aspet.org/aspet/advocacy…

Smoke from wildfires in Canada is impacting air quality in the Northeast again. Our own marissa sobolewski is studying how tiny particles in the smoke, small enough to enter the brain, affect health. More on her work: rochester.edu/newscenter/uga… #URochesterResearch

Join us at noon on 9/18 for a webinar hosted by #IHHE and WE ACT for EJ to learn about #EnvironmentalJustice grants. Registration 🔗 rochester.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

The NIEHS is excited to be a part of the inaugural NIH Environmental Justice Scholars Program! Applications due October 11, 2024. For more information: bit.ly/3YP0JJs

Save the date! 🗓️ #IHHE 2024 Fall Research Symposium "Air Pollution and Health" Thursday, November 21 URochester SMD UR Medicine

Jacques Robert Jacques Robert authored an article on Xenopus research in Developmental and Comparative Immunology: "The future of comparative immunology viewed from the perspective of Xenopus research" 🐸 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What are the ethics of returning individual research results to participants in housing exposure studies? With support by NIEHS, Katrina Korfmacher and Jon Herington URochester SMD, aim to develop "report back" guidelines. factor.niehs.nih.gov/2024/9/feature…

New paper published in Environmental Health Perspectives by URochester SMD faculty member Souvarish Sarkar Souvarish Sarkar and post-doc Muhammet Ay. 📢 "Seminar: Functional Exposomics and Mechanisms of Toxicity—Insights from Model Systems and NAMs" 🔗ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EH… #URochesterResearch

Research Catalyst Funds - up to $50k available to University of Rochester faculty for research on how the environment influences health. Preliminary proposals due 10/7. 🔗urmc.rochester.edu/MediaLibraries…

Souvarish Sarkar Souvarish Sarkar received a diversity supplement to his NIEHS grant. The funding will support urmc_toxicology grad student Pablo-Reina Gonzalez's research on the role of glia and non-cell autonomous neurodegeneration in paraquat neurotoxicity. 🎉 #URochesterResearch

Join us Thursday 9/19 for a lecture by Dr. Krithika Lingappan from Penn. Her seminar, “Determinants of Sex-Specific Susceptibility and Resilience in the Developing Lung” will focus on neonatal lung injury, sex differences, and the SRY gene.

Sophia Samantaroy is a University of Rochester MS student in Environmental Health & Epidemiology, a graduate research assistant for Dr. Katrina Korfmacher, and also a Global Health Journalist Fellow Health Policy Watch - Global Health News Reporting. Wow! 🌟 Read Sophia's latest article below. healthpolicy-watch.news/30-metric-tonn…