Superfund Research Program

Sources and Protracted Effects of Early Life Exposure to Arsenic and Mercury

Center Director: Celia Y. Chen
Grant Number: P42ES007373
Funding Period: 1995-2021

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News Items List

• Leveraging Partners Across Disciplines and Continents
  SRP News Page - February 2022
  A feature on Dartmouth College SRP Center Director Celia Chen, Ph.D., explains how she is leveraging decades of research on Mercury to better understand how people are exposed to per and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
  

• Extramural Paper of the Month: Microbiome Affects Early Childhood Behavior Differently in Girls and Boys
  Paper of the Month - January 2022
  Bacteria in the gut of young children may relate to behavioral disorders, affecting girls and boys differently, according to an SRP-funded study at the Dartmouth College SRP Center. This is one of the first studies to examine associations between the microbiome and a broad range of behavioral outcomes that may vary by sex.
  

• Microbiome affects early childhood behavior differently in girls and boys
  Paper of the Month - January 2022
  Bacteria in the gut of young children may relate to behavioral disorders, affecting girls and boys differently, according to an NIEHS-funded study. This is one of the first studies to examine associations between the microbiome, the collection of bacteria and other microorganisms in the body, and a broad range of behavioral outcomes that may vary by sex.
  

• Dartmouth SRP Center Helps Young Citizen Scientists Continue Work
  SRP News Page - October 2021
  Researchers at the NIEHS Superfund Research Program (SRP)-funded Center at Dartmouth College and collaborators quickly identified challenges and realistic solutions for their citizen science project, All About Arsenic, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  

• Data sharing key to environmental health research, experts say
  Environmental Factor - June 2021
  Three NIEHS Superfund Research Program events focus on how data science can be harnessed to better study contaminants.
  

• Data science paves the way with new tools, insights for SRP
  Environmental Factor - April 2021
  The NIEHS Superfund Research Program (SRP) held its first External Use Case (EUC) Showcase Feb. 18-19. Over 140 participants joined the meeting to share experiences and recommendations about integrating datasets from SRP-sponsored research. EUCs, developed by collaborations of researchers from different SRP centers, demonstrate specific scenarios in which data management and sharing could provide new insight on research questions and to identify barriers to inform future data efforts.
  

• K.C. Donnelly Externships awarded to outstanding Superfund trainees
  Environmental Factor - August 2020
  Eleven outstanding trainees in the NIEHS Superfund Research Program (SRP) have won K.C. Donnelly Externship Award Supplements. The annual awards allow trainees to work side-by-side with experts at an outside institution to learn new methods and techniques to enrich their research.
  

• New Hampshire arsenic rule builds on NIEHS-funded research
  Environmental Factor - August 2019
  New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu signed a bill July 12 that sharply lowers the state's drinking water limit for arsenic. The new rule, informed by research and outreach efforts from NIEHS grantees at the Dartmouth College Superfund Research Program (SRP) Center, cuts the state standard in half from the federal level of 10 parts per billion (ppb) to 5 ppb.