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Your Environment. Your Health.

Final Progress Reports: Brown University: Administrative Core

Superfund Research Program

Administrative Core

Project Leader: Robert H. Hurt
Grant Number: P42ES013660
Funding Period: 2005-2021

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Final Progress Reports

Year:   2020  2014  2008 

Studies and Results

Successes over the past year include:

  1. Re-submitting a competing P42 grant application in September 2014
  2. Ongoing successful collaborations with community partners, including aiding in the establishment of emergency response processes with the Narragansett Tribe.
  3. KC Donnelly Externship awarded to James Rice, who conducted a passive sampler study in the Blackstone River at the Fisherville Mill hazardous waste site in Grafton, Massachusetts.
  4. Improving social media capabilities, including an upgrade to the website and increased activity on Twitter.

The Brown SRP continues to support a monthly seminar series that is well attended. The Community Outreach Core and Research Translation Core also sponsor a number of events. Additionally, the Administrative Core helped organize and support the following special activities:

Date Title Description
4/14/14 Brown Launches a New Environmental Institute The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES) addresses environmental questions ranging in scale from molecular to planetary and provides an interdisciplinary home for faculty from the Superfund Research Program.
5/1/14 Fracking Webinar Series with Society for Risk Analysis Brown University served as the Rhode Island host location for the Society for Risk Assessment webinar series, "Scientific Studies on Impacts of Natural Gas Extraction from Marcellus Shale on Water Resources."
7/24/14 Trainee Workshop: Intellectual Property & Research Commercialization The Brown University SRP Research Translation and Training Cores co-organized/sponsored a workshop on "Intellectual Property & Research Commercialization."

 

Participation at the 2014 SRP Annual Meeting in San Jose, California, is outlined below:

  • Attendees
  • Presentations
    • Anderson L. Novel molecular biomarkers of testicular injury induced by environmental toxicants (Main Meeting Science Session 1)
    • Suuberg E. Vapor intrusion: environmental health risks, technical and regulatory challenges (Main Meeting Science Session 3)
    • Rice J. Use of LDPE passive samplers for monitoring PAHs in the water column of a suburban, freshwater oil-spill site (KC Donnelly Award Presentation)
  • Posters
    • Anderson L, Dere E, Huse S, Boekelheide K. Molecular alterations in sperm are sensitive indicators of testicular dysfunction.
    • Creighton MA, Rodd AL, Vaslet CA, Rangel-Mendez JR, Kane AB, Hurt RH. Impacts of particle-based dispersants on benzene bioavailability and on toxicity using Artemia franciscana as a model organism.
    • Rice JW, Thompson MR, Suuberg EM, Vanderslice R, Hoover E, Boekelheide K. Rapid sharing of advanced SRP research with local stakeholders: the Brown-NEWMOA partnership.
    • Thompson MR, Xu B, Carlson L, Boekelheide K. Using GIS technology to inform environmental health policy: a case study involving USEPA's decision-making process of remedy selection and building community capacity.

Significance

The Administrative Core continues to improve its organization, structure, and communication to serve better the overall goals of the SRP.

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