Environmental Factor Newsletter, January 2019

NIEHS Giving Tree brightens holidays for local children

Staff and contractors stepped up to provide toys, bikes, clothes, and other gifts to children of needy families in the Raleigh-Durham area.

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Annual Ethics Day is a hit with NIEHSers

The NIEHS Ethics Office offered a lively alternative to the mandatory online training federal workers complete each year.

Fellows from around the globe celebrate around the table

An international potluck lets research fellows share food and cultures while building a sense of camaraderie.

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Jan
08

NIEHS Distinguished Lecture Series presents “Genes, Environment, Autism, and Precision Public Health: At the Nexus of Multi-Factor Etiology and Environmental Justice," hosted by Linda Birnbaum, Ph.D., director, NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 11:00 a.m. – noon
Speaker(s): Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Ph.D., from the University of California, Davis

Jan
15-16

The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions Workshop presents “Toward Understanding the Interplay of Environmental Stressors, Infectious Disease, and Human Health”
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Location: The NASEM Keck Center, 500 Fifth Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001
Registration is required to attend in person or via webcast

Jan
17

Duke University Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program Spring Seminar Series presents “Characterizing Environmental Health Literacy Related to Fish Consumption Advisories: Knowledge and Beliefs of Informal Educators in a Southeastern State”
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Location: Field Auditorium, Grainger Hall, Duke University
Speaker(s): Kathleen Gray, Ph.D., from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Jan
22

Interagency Coordinating Committee on Validating Alternative Methods Communities of Practice Webinar: “Nonanimal Approaches for Inhalation Toxicity Testing”
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Location: Webinar
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Jan
31

Keystone Science Lecture Seminar Series
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Location: Keystone 1003AB
Time: 11:00 a.m. – noon
Speaker(s): Andrew Dillin, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Investigator, University of California, Berkeley

Feb
01

Triangle Global Health Consortium Career Day
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Location: Rodbell Auditorium
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
More information and registration

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