Environmental Factor – December 2023: Worker Training Program yields substantial return on investment

Graduates of the NIEHS Environmental Career Worker Training Program (ECWTP) earned nearly $10 million more per year in combined salary than peers who did not

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Environmental Factor – December 2023: Access, inclusion necessary to overcome stigma

The NIEHS Diversity Speaker Series event held Nov. 7 recognized and acknowledged the Deaf community as part of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Céline Dazé,

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Environmental Factor – December 2023: ICYMI: Distinguished Lecturer shares trick of protecting bone marrow

As part of the NIEHS Distinguished Lecture Series, Sharpless explained the effects of modulating the cell cycle to manage DNA damage and aging. (Photo courtesy

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Environmental Factor – December 2023: Resilience is key to overcoming global health challenges

Resilience is often defined as the capacity to withstand or recover quickly from difficult situations. But what does resilience mean in the context of global

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Environmental Factor – December 2023: Community engagement critical to addressing women’s health concerns

Joan Packenham, Ph.D., first started down a path to address women’s environmental health disparities across North Carolina and beyond after receiving a request from the

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Environmental Factor – December 2023: For PFAS-polluted sites, forum highlights best research practices

Members of the Federal Remediation Technologies Roundtable convened Nov. 7 to share approaches for sampling and characterizing sites polluted by PFAS, a class of harmful

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Environmental Factor – December 2023: Burn pits’ complex emissions simulated in NIEHS grantee’s laboratory

Rick Woychik, Ph.D., directs NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program. (Image courtesy of NIEHS) When I talk with people about environmental health sciences research, I

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Environmental Factor – December 2023: Monica Bertagnolli starts as new NIH director

Physician-scientist Monica Bertagnolli, M.D., became the 17th director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in November. She is the first surgeon and the second

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Environmental Factor – December 2023: New class of seven Climate and Health Scholars named

Seven scholars were selected to share their specialized knowledge with National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers as part of the NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative.

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