Newly Awarded NIEHS & NSF Grants
We are excited to announce that SSEHRI researchers have recently received two new grants from NIEHS and NSF. These grants build on the success of SSEHRI’s PFAS Project lab and its partners in other...
Category: Research
Mapping the Expanding PFAS Crisis
On April 18, the Environmental Working Group, in conjunction with SSEHRI, released an updated version of its interactive map of PFAS-contaminated sites in the U.S. The number of sites has increased to 94, from...
Good News Roundup
We’re excited to announce several new funding sources for our graduate students and research groups. Congratulations to everyone involved! Student Accomplishments Graduate student Stephanie Clark-Reyna was awarded the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship. The aim...
Sara Wylie Awarded CRESSH Pilot Grant
SSEHRI core faculty member Sara Wylie was awarded the Pilot Project Award for her project “Developing community based visceral data performances for cross disciplinary collaboration on environmental justice in Chelsea, MA” from the Center for...
Fractivism
SSEHRI core faculty member, Sara Wylie, has just published her first book. From flammable tap water and sick livestock to the recent onset of hundreds of earthquakes in Oklahoma, the impact of fracking in...
That rotten stench in the air? It’s the smell of deadly gas and secrecy
From the Toronto Star and the National Observer series The Price of Oil: “The view from the front porch, once a landscape of rolling hills, horse pastures and lush river valley, has been transformed....
Extreme heat – an “unseen threat” – burns U.S. urban poor
From Thomson Reuters Foundation News: “Sharon Harlan, a professor of health sciences and sociology at Northeastern University in Boston, says she and colleagues have discovered a simple reality: Access to cash can equate with...
SSEHRI Postdocs Travel to Chile to Meet with Collaborators on the Early Life exposures in Latina Adolescents (ELLA) Study
As evidence suggests the seeds of breast cancer may be sown early in life, the Early Life exposures in Latina Adolescents (ELLA) study hopes to find out whether exposure to common environmental chemicals during...
New Teflon Toxin Found in North Carolina Drinking Water
From The Intercept: “‘Every PFAS that has been studied is causing problems,’ said [Dr. Linda] Birnbaum, whose agency [NIEHS] funds scientific research into the chemicals. ‘Even if they have a shorter half-life, if it has a...