Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Tour of CLEAR lab spaces at the C.S. Mott Center

Earlier today, the Research Translation team that I lead at CLEAR partnered with the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development (led by CLEAR’s Project 4 PI Dr. Gil Mor), to host around 35 high school students and community members as part of the 19th annual Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit conference.

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New Animation Videos for CLEAR on Communicating VOC Health Risks

Last semester, two student teams in my Communication Studies capstone class developed a series of short animation videos highlighting the engineering and biomedical research at the NIH-funded Center for Leadership in Environmental Awareness and Research (CLEAR) Superfund Research Program to monitor, assess and remediate the health impacts of volatile organic chemicals (VOCs).

This is the first of those videos, describing Project 1, led by Dr. Glen Hood (Dept. of Biological Sciences).

You can watch the entire series at https://lnkd.in/ed4b5Szd

Panel on Intergenerational Engagement at NIH PEPH 2024 Meeting

I recently participated in an interesting panel on engaging intergenerational audiences at the National Institute for Environmental Health’s Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH) annual meeting. I spoke of our work collaborating with community members, interdisciplinary graduate students and undergraduate students to design communication material on environmental health risks.