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NSF Makes Award to Study Path of Pollutants to the Dinner Table

August 26, 2008

student holding sediment coreThe National Science Foundation has awarded $356,000 to Cindy Lee, an environmental chemist and a professor of environmental engineering and earth sciences at Clemson University, to look at how pollutants cycle through fish and other organisms and wind up on the dinner table. The research will focus on PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), pollutants that have been implicated in problems with brain development in humans. Full story

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Last Updated: September 10, 2008