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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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

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!

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 […]

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 […]

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…  

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 […]

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…

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.  

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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/

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

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

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.

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.

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 […]

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

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.   

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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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 […]