Environmental Factor Newsletter, October 2018

military personnel push a boat full of residents through flooded streets

Emergency collections serve hurricane victims

NIEHS responded to the devastation of Hurricane Florence by launching an emergency drive to stock food banks in hard-hit areas.

Calendar

Oct
03

NIEHS Superfund Research Program presents the Wetterhahn Award Lecture on “Development of Magnetic Nanocomposite Materials as Low-Cost Reusable Adsorbents for Chlorinated Organics in Contaminated Water”
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Location: Keystone Building, Room 1003AB
Time: 10:00-11:00 a.m.
Speaker(s): Angela Gutierrez, from the University of Kentucky

Oct
05

National Toxicology Program Peer Review of the Draft Report on Carcinogens Monograph on Night Shift Work and Light at Night
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Agenda and registration to attend in person or via webcast

Oct
05

Keystone Science Lecture Seminar Series presents “Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Stimulation of Base Excision Repair by UV-DDB”
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Location: Keystone 1003AB
Time: 11:00 a.m.-noon
Speaker(s): Bennett Van Houten, Ph.D., from the University of Pittsburgh

Oct
09

National Toxicology Program Board of Scientific Counselors meeting
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Location: Webcast
Time: 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Register to attend via webcast

Oct
12

Partnerships for Environmental Public Health webinar on “Meeting Target Audiences No Matter Where They Are — Strategies for Effective Use of Social Media for Public Health Communication”
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Location: Webinar
Time: noon-1:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Brenda Koester from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Wendy Gutschow from the University of Southern California; Nathan Mutic from Emory University; Nsedu Witherspoon from the Children’s Environmental Health Network
Registration is required

Oct
18-19

The Research Triangle Environmental Health Collaborative 11th Annual Environmental Health Summit on Artificial Intelligence in Environmental Health Science and Decision Making
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