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April 21, 2025

Dr. Sinan Sousan Recognized for Heat Stress App

Drs. Sousan and Jo Anne Balanay were honored at the 2025 ECU Research and Scholarship Awards Recognition Ceremony for their copyright registration of the app prototype Temper, a heat stress assessment…

April 16, 2025

Drs. Jane Hoppin and Jennifer Richmond-Bryant Receive Outstanding Engagement Awards for 2025!

Drs. Jane Hoppin (Professor, Biological Sciences) and Jennifer Richmond-Bryant (Professor, Forestry and Environmental Resources) were recognized with Outstanding Engagement Awards at a university-wide reception on March 27, 2025. The University Outreach…

April 11, 2025

Community Engagement Core Hosts Community Forum in Cumberland County

At the request of Cumberland County Extension employees, the CEC, in partnership with DHHS, DEQ, and county health officials, hosted a community forum on PFAS contamination in local gardens. Presentations…

April 11, 2025

Community-Engaged EHD Workshop: Impact-focused Environmental Health Research

On March 24, 2025, the Center for Human Health and the Environment (CHHE) hosted the “Community-Engaged Workshop: Impact-Focused Environmental Health Research,” bringing together environmental health professionals and researchers to discuss…

April 11, 2025

Albert Keung Named Integrative Sciences Initiative Director of Biotechnology Programs

Albert Keung has been named director of biotechnology programs for the Integrative Sciences Initiative (ISI) in the Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs, effective March 1. ISI Executive Director Joshua Pierce…

January 13, 2025

Forming the Post Helene Water Response (PoWR) Team

The team, led by Jackie MacDonald Gibson (NC State) and Rebecca Fry (UNC-CH) was recently funded by the CEHS/CHHE Inter-P30 Rapid Response Initiative.  This community-based participatory work will use pre-hurricane…