Development and Use of Adverse Outcome Pathways that Predict Adverse Developmental Neurotoxicity
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing research that will identify and/or provide a better understanding of adverse outcome pathways (AOPs) that lead to developmental neurotoxicity (DNT). (CFDA: 66.509)
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10th Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of the P3-People, Prosperity and the Planet Award Program, is seeking applications proposing to research, develop, and design solutions to real world challenges involving the overall sustainability of human society. (CFDA: 66.509)
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Boys More Vulnerable to Memory Impairment from Insecticide Chlorpyrifos than Girls
STAR researcher Megan Horton at the Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Research Center at Columbia University has published research results showing that after prenatal exposure to the insecticide chrlorpyrifos (CPF), boys at age seven had greater memory impairment than girls with similar exposures, leading to an overall lower IQ. (CFDA: 66.509)
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Manufactured Nanoparticles May Impact Crop Yield and Food Quality
STAR researchers at the University of California Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, have published an article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that manufactured nanoparticles in agricultural soil can accumulate in plants and can  affect plant growth and food quality. (CFDA: 66.509)
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Small Business in Topsfield, Mass. Receives $300,000 Grant to Develop Air Quality Monitoring Equipment
A business in Topsfield, Mass. was among seven businesses nationwide to win a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop and commercialize technology that helps protect the environment. (CFDA: 66.509)
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Frogs More Vulnerable to Disease as Climate Changes
Science to Achieve Results (STAR) researcher Jason Rohr has published findings in Nature Climate Change that may link the declining amphibian population around the world to climate change. (CFDA: 66.509)
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EPA Awards $2 Million to Small Businesses to Support Environmental Innovation, Protect Health
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded seven contracts totaling more than $2 million to small businesses across the nation to develop new technologies to keep the environment clean and healthy. (CFDA: 66.509)
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EPA Announces Funded Research to Improve Air Quality, Protect Health
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded five grants totaling almost $2 million to academic institutions for research on innovative processes to further improve air quality in the U.S. and help track the effectiveness of pollution control measures.
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Cattle feedlots release synthetic growth hormone metabolites at levels causing endocrine disruption in fish
STAR researchers Dr. David Sedlak (University of California - Berkeley) and Dr. Edward Kolodziej (University of Nevada - Reno) have published 2 new journal articles this year, one that shows toxic levels of trenbolone metabolites can reach fish in surface waters at levels that can cause reproductive defects and another describing the new and more accurate analytical procedures that they have developed. (CFDA: 66.509)
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Why is methane such a powerful heat trapper in our atmosphere?
U.S. EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grantee Neil Donahue has been featured in a recent National Public Radio (NPR) story for his work in atmospheric chemistry. (CFDA: 66.509)
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Elderly at risk to heat and temperature fluctuations
EPA Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grantees at Harvard School of Public Health have shown that heat and fluctuation in temperatures due to climate change will hurt one of our most vulnerable populations, the elderly. (CFDA: 66.509)
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