Lea, a 10th grade student who during the summer of 2019, was granted the opportunity to conduct research through the CEET’s Teen Research and Education in Environmental Science (TREES) program, won the Presidential Award for research focused on “Effective Repeated Filtration of Amoxicillin from Wastewater Using Activated Charcoal Filters”. For more information, click the link below.
https://www.epa.gov/education/presidents-environmental-youth-award-peya-winners
Dr. Marilyn Howarth, Director of the CEET’s Community Engagement Core, talks about the closing of the South Philadelphia refinery and its impact on air quality and health. Copy and paste the link below for more info.
https://www.inquirer.com/business/energy/philadelphia-air-quality-pollution-refinery-pes-curious-philly-20191226.html
As a part of the CEET’s monthly seminar series, Dr. Bethany Wiggin, Founding Faculty Director, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities, recently presented on connections between environmental humanities, public health, and toxicology. Copy and paste the link to find out more.
https://preview.mailerlite.com/i6o9l2
Dr. Marilyn Howarth, Director of the Community Engagement Core for the CEET, recently spoke at the Futures Beyond Refining Event, coordinated by the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. The focus of the program was to bring together stakeholders who have the common goal of making the South Philadelphia community which surrounds the oil refinery site clean and healthy for residents. Copy and paste the link below to find out more about the event and to hear Dr. Howarth’s presentation.
https://ppeh.sas.upenn.edu/index.php/experiments/futures-beyond-refining
Dr. Ian Blair, who is the Vice Chair of Pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania and also head’s the Environmental Exposures and Cancer Thematic Area for the CEET, was recently featured on NBC Philadelphia for his work on asbestos detection and testing. Dr. Blair’s research focuses on how blood tests can be used to detect if a person has been exposed to asbestos and the probability that they will be diagnosed with cancer, years in the future. For more information and to view the actual television segment, click the link below.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/health/could-a-blood-test-determine-if-youll-get-cancer-from-asbestos/2308935/
