Natasha Andrade Wins CPRC Student Travel Award

The SETAC-CPRC Board of Directors announced the recipients of the 2011 Student Travel Awards:

Natasha Andrade, University of Maryland. Utilizing thin-film SPE methodology to assess DDT and dieldrin bioavailability to earthworms. Advised by Dr. Alba Torrents.

Talia Chalew, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The fate and cellular toxicity of silver, zinc oxide, titanium dioxide engineered nanoparticles in water. Advised by Dr. Kellogg Schwab.

Rebecca Lazarus, USGS-Patuxent Wildlife Research Center/ University of Maryland. Apparent tolerance of common tern (Sterna hirundo) embryos to a pentabrominated diphenyl ether mixture (DE-71). Advised by Dr. Barnett Rattner.

Each of these students will receive a $350 award in support of their attendance of the conference in Boston. The awards will be given to in person to these students at at SETAC-Boston during the CPRC meeting (Wednesday, November 16^th, 3-5p in Room 204).

Published November 11, 2011