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Apr 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…

Apr 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…

Apr 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…

Apr 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…

Apr 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…

Jan 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…

Jan 13, 2025

CHHE 2024 Outstanding Member of the Year Award goes to David Collier!

Since this time last year (according to PubMed), Dr. Collier has co-authored 9 manuscripts (including one in a journal with an impact factor over 45), co- led the writing and…

Jan 9, 2025

NIEHS Awards Jane Hoppin $1.9 Million to Enhance GenX Exposure Study

CHHE members Dr. Jane Hoppin, along with ECU co-investigators Dr. David Collier and Dr. Suzanne Lea, has received a 4-year NIH U24 grant to extend and maintain the GenX Exposure…

Jan 9, 2025

Sue Fenton gives Senate Testimony on the Public Health Impacts of PFAS Exposures

Dr. Sue Fenton (CHHE Director) and Dr. Laurel Schaider (Silent Spring Institute) provided expert testimony at the request of Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) during a December 5th hearing of the…

Dec 17, 2024

Dr. Nathan Crook Receives Prestigious Goodnight Early Career Innovator Award

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Nathan Crook, assistant professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and a valued member of our center, has been named a recipient of NC…