March 2024| Center for Human Health and the Environment

A Note from the Director

Happy Monday!! I want to congratulate the team of CHHE members leading the recently NIEHS/NSF-funded Oceans and Human Health Center - see their great news below. This is a super busy time of the year for many. Include me on that list! One of the graduate students I co-mentor at UNC-Chapel Hill's Curriculum in Toxicology and Environmental Medicine defended her thesis 2/28. The now Dr. Brittany Rickard also recently won the UNC Dean's Distinguished Dissertation award, the Society of Toxicology (SOT) Women in Tox graduate trainee award, the SOT Repro and Developmental Tox Specialty Section Ed Carney Graduate trainee award. I will be attending the SOT meeting next week as a newly elected member of the Awards Committee. Please let me know if you would like to be nominated for any of the SOT awards next year and I will guide you in the process. Work on our Center renewal continues to rapidly progress and because of the urgency to clarify our Full Member numbers, we will soon be reaching out to some of you with questions on your membership criteria. It is critical that you respond to our emails if you would like to remain a Full Member, with all the benefits that go along with it. In the meantime, if you have any questions regarding your status, please see the membership criteria on the website. I also cannot stress enough how important it is to Cite the Center. I will also be reaching out to many of you to amend your NIHMS accounts to add our Center grant number. The number is easily found on the CHHE website, also.

Sue Fenton

sefenton@ncsu.edu

Toxicology Bldg. rm 1104E

Upcoming Events

March 22: HEEDS EDC-North Carolina Working Group Fourth Annual Scientific Meeting 8:30am-5:00pm NIEHS Rodbell Auditorium Flyer

March 29: 32nd Annual Meeting of the Triangle Consortium for Reproductive Biology 9:00am-5:00pm

NC State McKimmon Conference & Training Center Flyer

*Co-sponsored by CHHE

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News

8th. Annual CHHE Symposium

Perinatal Environmental Exposures and Later Life Disease: Biological Targets & Mechanisms

I hope you all enjoyed the CHHE Annual Symposium as much as I did. I heard resounding positive feedback from our colleagues at NIEHS and EPA and other institutions in attendance, in addition to those from speakers that we had invited. Thank you once again to Rob Smart and his organizing team: Jonathan Hall, Mike Cowley, and Cathrine Hoyo for spearheading this excellent, well attended event. It was really a great day of food, refreshments and science! Special thanks to MJ and Surabhi for their organizational assistance and the pictures to remember it by.

John Bang Awarded U.S. EPA Grant

Dr. Bang, CHHE member and professor at NC Central University, has received a U.S. EPA grant alongside a team from RTI International. This project spans three years and aims to evaluate the levels of air pollutant exposure in underserved childcare facilities across seven counties in North Carolina, including Durham, Greenville, Halifax, Vance, Wake, and Warren. Utilizing an advanced air quality monitoring system, the project will collect data throughout the investigation period to establish groundwork for comprehending the impact of differential exposure on health disparities among children in North Carolina. Article

Director Astrid Schnetzer and Co-Director Scott Belcher will lead the new North Carolina Center for Coastal Algae, People and Environment (NC C-CAPE) Center

Researchers from NC State have received a five-year, $6.9 million grant co-funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish the North Carolina Center for Coastal Algae, People and Environment (NC C-CAPE). NC C-CAPE will bring together researchers from five colleges at NC State — with expertise in ocean and climate science, toxicology, epidemiology, modeling and community engagement — to study the human health risks posed by harmful cyanobacterial algal blooms in North Carolina coastal waters. Article

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Reminders

Cite and acknowledge NIH award support and the CHHE’s P30 grant in future publications and presentations by including this –

“Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number P30ES025128. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.”

Publications citing the Center grant in the acknowledgements of a manuscript and in the deposit of the manuscript in NIEMS are the currency for the P30 renewal!

CHHE Resources and Facilities Page for NIH Grants is available on the CHHE website .

PINS: When submitting your grants, be sure to select "Center for Human Health and the Environment" as the center in PINS.

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