Author: Maria Crecenzio

Center for Environmental Exposures and Disease

EOHSI Members in the News: Michael Gochfeld, MD Featured in United Way Prevention Newsletter – Is It Safe to Fly During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Stay-at-home orders have lifted in many parts of the country and, with that, plenty of people are trying to figure out what is (and isn’t) OK to do now that COVID-19 is practically everywhere. A big question as people itch to travel this summer: Is it safe to fly yet? After all, airplanes don’t exactly…
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May 26, 2020 0

Laura E. Liang, Ph.D. recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching

Congratulations to Laura E. Liang, Ph.D. Assistant Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences for receiving this prestigious award in 2020! THE PRESIDENTIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING is awarded annually to non-tenure-track, full-time faculty members in the arts and humanities, sciences, and social sciences who have demonstrated outstanding teaching…
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May 9, 2020 0

EOHSI Member Phoebe Stapleton, Ph.D., A.T.C. featured in Consumer Reports: How to Eat Less Plastic

The world has produced more than 10 billion tons of plastic since the 1950s, and we just keep making more. In 2018, 400 million tons of new plastic ash been produced, and production is expected to almost quadruple by 2050. The vast majority of that plastic eventually ends up piled up around the planet. Any…
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May 5, 2020 0