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CEET TREES Student Wins a Presidential Award from the EPA

April 27, 2020 1:02 pm

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 […]

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South Philly Refinery, a Big Polluter, Shut Down More Than 6 months ago. So, Do We have Cleaner Aair?

March 23, 2020 4:29 pm

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

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CEET Seminar – Rising Waters: Public History and Environmental Health in Philadelphia’s Coastal Neighborhood

March 23, 2020 3:57 pm

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

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Dr. Marilyn Howarth Gives Talk on Oil Refinery in South Philadelphia

March 23, 2020 3:21 pm

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 […]

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Could a Blood Test Determine if You Will Get Cancer from Asbestos?

March 23, 2020 2:45 pm

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 […]

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CEET Director Receives ACS Founders’ Award

April 23, 2019 5:47 pm

Penn Almanac * April 23, 2019 * vol 65 * Issue 32 The Division of Chemical Toxicology of the American Chemical Society (ACS) has given Trevor Penning, the Thelma Brown and Henry Charles Molinoff Professor of Pharmacology and the director of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, the 2019 Founders’ Award. Dr. Penning will […]

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CEET Awarded Funding Supplements

October 15, 2018 5:35 pm

The CEET has been awarded two administrative supplements from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.  The supplements are intended to  provide funds to P30 Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers to enhance interactions across Centers to address emerging issues and to advance research, translational research, and community engagement. John Essigman, PhD (MIT- Lead Institution) and […]

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Dr. Amita Bansal shares how Bisphenol A (BPA), a common environmental chemical, alters metabolic health and pancreatic function across three generations

June 5, 2018 10:37 am

Dr. Amita Bansal Dr. Bansal is a basic science enthusiast. After graduating in 2009 from the University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland, Dr. Bansal started her diabetes related journey as a PhD candidate in Professor Frank Bloomfield’s laboratory at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Using sheep as a model, she researched whether preterm babies with high […]

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COEC Director Receives Prestigious Community Award

May 29, 2018 2:38 pm

Congratulations to Dr. Marilyn Howarth, Director of the CEET Community Outreach and Engagement Core,  for receiving the 2018 Chester Environmental Partnership (CEP) Award. This year, five honorees were distinguished for their commitment to environmental stewardship and close partnership with the CEP.

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Meet CEET Researcher Carsten Skarke, MD

May 8, 2018 5:24 pm

Exploring Day/Night Patterns in Personal Exposure to Air Pollutants: Asthma and the Human Clock Residing in Queen Village, a neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA, Dr. Skarke is witnessing how nocturnal asthma —breathing problems typically occurring between 3:00 to 5:00 AM —is taking a toll on some families and their children. The risk to be affected by […]

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CEET Director Appointed Senior Editor

March 12, 2018 11:22 am

We are pleased to announce that the Director of our Center, Trevor Penning, PhD, has been appointed Senior Editor for Cancer Research in Population & Prevention Science

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CEET Investigator Receives Distinguished CHEST Educator (DCE) Designation

November 13, 2017 4:45 pm

Anil Vachani, MD, FCCP, Director of the CEET Integrative Health Sciences Facility Core, was awarded a Distinguished CHEST Educator (DCE) designation for 2017 by the American College of Chest Physicians.  The DCE designation honors members that have shown great commitment, involvement, and leadership in CHEST education programs and activities, and recognizes their achievements and long-term […]

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CEET Member Receives Prestigious American Chemical Society/Division of Chemical Toxicology Award

August 28, 2017 5:06 pm

Penn Medicine Pharmacologist Given Founders’ Award from American Chemical Society Ian Blair, Director of the CEET Affinity Group in Oxidative Stress and Oxidative Stress Injury, Director of the CEET Translational Biomarker Core, and Director of the Penn Superfund Research and Training Program has won the 2017 Founders’ Award from the Division of Chemical Toxicology of […]

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Paper by CEET investigator’s lab a “Most Read Article” in ACS publication

July 27, 2017 11:49 am

The following article submitted by the lab of Ian Blair was selected by Chemical Research in Toxicology as a Most Read Article (most full-text article requests 2011-2017) 11-Oxoeicosatetraenoic Acid Is a Cyclooxygenase-2/15-Hydroxyprostaglandin Dehydrogenase-Derived Antiproliferative Eicosanoid Xiaojing Liu, Suhong Zhang, Jasbir S. Arora, Nathaniel W. Snyder, Sumit J. Shah, Ian A. Blair DOI: 10.1021/tx200336f

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CEET Director recognized as a Top Author for ACS journal

July 26, 2017 2:28 pm

Trevor Penning, Director of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, has been recognized as one of the most highly prolific authors for the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology.

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CEET Young Investigator Receives Award

July 25, 2017 5:18 pm

CEET Investigator Sara E. Pinney, MD (front row, 6th from the left), recipient of a CEET Mentored Scientist Transition Award, was recognized at the recent P30 Center Directors Meeting at Emory University for her outstanding presentation “Development Origins of Metabolic Disease Through Studies of In Utero Exposures in Humans and Mice.”  Congratulations Sara!

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Chester City Residents came together for Town Hall meeting on Environmental Health

June 27, 2017 11:36 am

Chester residents and concerned citizens united at Dr. Reverend H Strand’s Faith Temple Holy Church for an environmental health Town Hall meeting hosted by COEC and Dr. Linda Birnbaum, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Dr. Birnbaum is interested in the community’s concerns about environmental health and the NIEHS supports research […]

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Lead (Pb) in Philadelphia soil — It’s still a problem

June 27, 2017 11:19 am

COEC Deputy Director, Richard Pepino has been working tirelessly with students conducting lead (Pb) testing through Academically Based Community Service courses. On Saturday, June 24th Rich’s students visited the Overbrook community in West Philadelphia to test private homes and vacant spaces for lead (Pb). Learn more about the event by clicking the following link: Soil […]

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Rooting out Flawed Genetic Classifications—and the Racial Bias Behind Them

June 22, 2017 5:12 pm

Wharton Business Radio host Dan Loney interviews Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) professors Sarah Tishkoff (CEET member) and Dorothy Roberts  about their collaborative research on race and human genetic variation. For more information and to listen to the interview…  

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Age at Menopause: Do Chemical Exposures Play a Role?

June 22, 2017 4:22 pm

An article from Environmental Health Perspectives explores how environmental exposures may influence age at menopause. Samantha Butts, MD, MSCE, an associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is quoted on evidence suggesting women who smoke begin menopause an average of 1–2 years earlier compared to nonsmokers. Read more…

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CEET Member Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

June 21, 2017 5:01 pm

Sarah Tishkoff, PhD, a member of the Gene-Environment Interactions  Affinity Group of the CEET, was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences. NAS election is considered one of the highest honors accorded an engineer or scientist in the United States. Dr. Tishkoff is the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor in Genetics and Biology. […]

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Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Award

April 25, 2017 11:58 am

University of Pennsylvania Almanac April 25, 2017, Volume 63, No. 32 Professor Richard (Rich) Pepino, lecturer in Earth & Environmental Science (EES), School of Arts & Sciences and Deputy Director, Community Outreach & Engagement Core, Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET), Perelman School of Medicine, and his partners in the School District of Philadelphia […]

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5 questions: Your exposure to cancer risk factors in Philly could be killing you

February 6, 2017 8:59 am

Dr. Marilyn Howarth, director of the Community Outreach and Engagement Core for Penn’s Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, has been working local communities to determine their exposomes and help them figure out what to do about it. Sandy Bauers/ The Philadelphia Inquirer / February 3, 2017 Read full article from the Philadelphia Inquirer   […]

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CEET Researcher Set to Publish Novel Lead Exposure Study

November 23, 2015 11:08 am

Dr. Jianghong Liu, Associate Professor at Penn Nursing and CEET member, will be published in the December issue of SLEEP. Her research shows that lead exposure in early childhood area associated with increased risk for sleep problems and excessive daytime sleepiness in later childhood. This is the first longitudinal, population-based study that investigated early lead […]

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CEET Featured in Fall Issue of PENN Medicine Magazine: Fracking and Public Health: Finding the Best Balance

November 20, 2015 10:46 am

The experts in Penn’s Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology seek the facts that are essential for decisions  that affect our environment. By Mark Overton / PENN Medicine Magazine/ Fall 2015 Read more…

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NIEHS Releases “Advancing Environmental Justice” Report – CEET Project Highlighted

July 20, 2015 5:16 pm

NIEHS report Advancing Environmental Justice describes the NIEHS  efforts to reduce environmental health disparities and promote environmental justice over the past two decades.  A project of CEET Investigator Edward Emmett, MD – The Little Hocking That Could: Community Exposure to Perfluorooctanoate – was highlighted.  

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CEET Hydraulic Fracturing Study Published in PLOS ONE

July 16, 2015 12:01 pm

The CEET  announced the publication of its collaborative research study on the link between hydraulic fracturing and hospitalization rates in the Marcellus Shale region, in PLOS ONE on Wednesday July 15th. Over the past ten years in the United States, hydraulic fracturing has experienced a meteoric increase. Due to substantial increases in well drilling the potential for air […]

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CEET’s Judith Green-McKenzie, MD, MPH, Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

July 2, 2015 10:50 am

Judith Green-McKenzie, MD, MPH, an associate professor of Emergency Medicine, member of the CEET Community Outreach and Engagement Core, and chief of the division of Occupational Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,  was awarded the 2015 Kehoe Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Education or Researcher from the American […]

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NIH Awards $8 Million Renewal to Penn Medicine’s Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology

May 1, 2015 10:24 am

Penn Medicine News April 30,2015 PHILADELPHIA – The National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has renewed its funding to the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET), at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, for the next five years. This grant will continue CEET’s […]

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Former STEER Program Student Awarded Fulbright Student Research Grant

April 10, 2015 10:54 am

Alain Kilajian, a graduating senior in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, has been awarded the 2015-2016 Fulbright Student Research Grant to pursue environmental work in Thailand. As a prior Short Term Educational Experiences for Research in Environmental Science (STEER) Program scholar, he has always had a deep interest in environmental issues, especially, surrounding […]

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COEC Academic Coordinator Receives Award

December 10, 2014 10:11 am

Kaitlyn Meirs, MPH, Academic Coordinator of our Community Outreach and Engagement Core, presented a poster at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association that received first place in the Environment Section Student Poster category.  The poster – Investigatory Research on the Distribution and Accessibility of Physicians with Environmental Expertise in the Gulf of […]

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Philadelphia Inquirer: Penn study seeks to track Ambler’s asbestos legacy

October 20, 2014 10:01 am

Sandy Bauers highlights the exposure to asbestos in Ambler. For the full article, click here. For more information on The University of Pennsylvania’s Superfund research team, updates on the research and other community resources visit: www.med.upenn.edu/asbestos/

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CEET Investigator Wins NIH Innovator Award

October 13, 2014 2:56 pm

Dan Huh, PhD, member of the Lung and Airway Disease Affinity Group of the CEET, is the recipient of a prestigious NIH Innovator Award. NIH New Innovator Award Goes to Penn Bioengineer for Lung-disease-on-a-chip Research

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WHYY: Researchers call for cumulative approach to measuring Pa. pollution

October 7, 2014 12:24 pm

Jessica McDonald from WHYY released an article highlighting COEC Director Dr. Marilyn Howarth in Researchers call for cumulative approach to measuring Pa. pollution

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NIEHS’s Monthly Newsletter Environmental Factor Highlights TREES Student

September 3, 2014 4:54 pm

NIEHS’s monthly newsletter Environmental Factor has highlighted May Wang’s recent award from the EPA. May Wang is a 2013 TREES student here at the University of Pennsylvania. For the full article, click here. Interested in the TREES program? Click here for more information.

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TREES Student Wins National Award for Environmental Research

August 29, 2014 9:20 am

May Wang, a 2013 TREES student wins a national award for environmental research. Click here for the full article from Philly.com Bucks student wins national award for environmental research

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State Impact NPR: Pa. health department reaches out to doctors amid controversy over drilling complaints: CEET Director, Dr. Trevor Penning, and Deputy Director, Dr. Reynold Panettieri both mentioned.

August 4, 2014 2:58 pm

Pa. health department reaches out to doctors amid controversy over drilling complaints CEET Director, Dr. Trevor Penning, and Deputy Director, Dr. Reynold Panettieri are both mentioned in this article.

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Environmental health research recommendations from the Inter-Environmental Health Sciences Core Center Working Group on Unconventional Natural Gas Drilling Operations published in Environmental Health Perspectives.

July 22, 2014 10:15 am

Environmental health research recommendations from the Inter-Environmental Health Sciences Core Center Working Group on Unconventional Natural Gas Drilling Operations published in Environmental Health Perspectives. CEET Director Dr. Trevor Penning and COEC Director Dr. Marilyn Howarth were both lead authors on this collaborative paper. Click here for the full article.

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NIEHS Highlights CEET Reseacher’s Work in China on Lead Poisoning

July 8, 2014 10:25 am

Lead in Kids’ Blood Linked With Behavioral and Emotional Problems Click Here For the Full Article from NIEHS Reference: Liu J, Liu X, Wang W, McCauley L, Pinto-Martin J, Wang Y, Li L, Yan C, Rogan WJ. 2014. Blood lead levels and children’s behavioral and emotional problems: a cohort study. JAMA Pediatr; doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2014.332. Read the […]

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Montgomery Media: University of Pennsylvania researchers receive $10 million to study asbestos in Ambler

June 26, 2014 9:22 am

Montgomery Media: University of Pennsylvania researchers receive $10 million to study asbestos in Ambler Full Article Here

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WHYY: Penn researchers get $10 million grant to study asbestos in Ambler

June 12, 2014 9:12 am

Jessica McDonald from WHYY wrote a wonderful piece on Penn researchers receiving a grant to study asbestos in Ambler, PA. Click Here for the Full Story.   

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Penn Medicine Receives Superfund Research Program Award of $10 Million to Study the Adverse Health Effects and Remediation of Asbestos

June 9, 2014 2:19 pm

PHILADELPHIA —Researchers at the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, have been awarded a $10 million grant from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) over the next four years to study asbestos exposure pathways that lead to mesothelioma, the bioremediation of this hazardous material, and mechanisms that […]

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Did you miss the “Impact of Unconventional Natural Gas Drilling Operations on the Environment and Public Health” Symposium held recently at Penn?

February 20, 2014 1:20 pm

Access the entire recorded webinar here.

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CEET News

October 26, 2013 10:42 am

The Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET) and the Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI) are co-hosting a symposium: “Impact of Unconventional Natural Gas Drilling Operations on the Environment and Public Health” to take place on Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 at the Smilow Center for Translational Research at the University of Pennsylvania. CEET is […]

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