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Allen Wilcox named finalist for Service to America Medal

NIEHS epidemiologist Allen Wilcox, M.D., Ph.D., is one of 32 finalists for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals.

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For Williams, tenure means continuing prolific research, mentoring

Carmen Williams, M.D., Ph.D., head of the NIEHS Reproductive Medicine Group, was awarded tenure from the National Institutes of Health.

Grantees elected to National Academy of Sciences

NIEHS grantees Mary Lou Guerinot, Ph.D., and Michael Kastan, M.D., Ph.D., have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

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NIEHS trainee Samantha Hoopes transitions to new career

Samantha Hoopes, Ph.D., former co-chair of the NIEHS Trainees’ Assembly, has begun a career in clinical product development at Rho, Inc.

Artist's rendering of the Green Warehouse Rendition

NIEHS scores again with Green Champion Awards

Two NIEHS groups won 2016 Green Champion awards for sustainability and stewardship projects.

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June
07

Keystone Science Lecture Seminar Series presenting “Exposure of the Dark Side — Revealing Transposable Elements’ Role in Epigenome Evolution”
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Location: Keystone Room 1003AB
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Ting Wang, Ph.D., from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

June
15

NTP Board of Scientific Counselors — Day 1
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Agenda and registration

June
16

NTP Board of Scientific Counselors — Day 2
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
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June
16

Partnerships for Environmental Public Health webinar — “The Complexity of Communicating Risk in the Context of Fish Consumption”
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Location: Webinar
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Speaker(s): Matthew Dellinger, Ph.D., from the Medical College of Wisconsin; Susan Buchanan, M.D., from the University of Illinois at Chicago; and Andrew Kane, Ph.D., from the University of Florida
Registration required

June
20

Inflammation Faculty Workshop — “Inflammation and the Environment: The Role of the Mitochondrion and Energy Metabolism”
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 8:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Keynote speakers — Augustine Choi, M.D., from Weill Cornell Medicine, discussing “Roles for Mitochondria in Activation of the Inflammasome” and Peter Tontonoz, M.D., Ph.D., from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and UCLA, discussing “Nuclear Receptors and Lipid Homeostasis in Programming of Inflammation"
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June
29

Global Environmental Health Day — Exploring Global Environmental Health at NIEHS, in the Triangle, and Around the World
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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June
30

Partnerships for Environmental Public Health webinar — “Climate Change and Health”
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Location: Webinar
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Registration required

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