NHEERL Scientists Release NEAR-Roadway Study Results...

There is increasing evidence that exposure to traffic-related air pollutants is associated with the incidence and severity of cardiopulmonary disease. Researchers in NHEERL and NRMRL recently have reported on the toxicity of airborne particles collected next to a highway in Raleigh, NC ("Comparative Toxicity of Size-Fractionated Airborne Particulate Matter Collected at Different Distances from an Urban Highway...

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EPHD Director To Serve as Technical Advisor to Uzbekistan Scientists

Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, Acting Director of NHEERL's Environmental Public Health Division (EPHD), will travel to Moscow, Russia, in late September 2009 to meet with Uzbekistan scientists for whom she serves as a technical advisor. Dr. Orme-Zavaleta will help finalize data analysis and manuscript preparation for a project on environmental... Read More

EPA Ranks Nationally as one of the Best Places to Work for Postdoctoral Fellows 2008

EPA's research campus in Research Triangle Park, N.C., is one of the top ranked best places for postdoctoral fellows to work, according to a survey by The Scientist magazine. The survey of fellows at EPA includes 35 research institutions in the nation recognized for their exceptional postdoctoral programs... Read More

ISTD Researcher To Head Up OECD Subgroup

William Mundy, a neurotoxicologist with NHEERL's Integrated Systems Toxicology Division's (ISTD's) Systems Biology Branch, has been asked by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to participate in a meeting of its Advisory Group on Molecular Screening in Paris, France, October 26-28, 2009. There, he will be the head of the subgroup... Read More