At the annual School of Public Health and Community Medicine graduation ceremony on June 9, our students, staff, and faculty were the recipents of several awards.
Joseph (Jay) Smith III, a graduate student in Environmental Health, won the School of Public Health’s Gilbert S. Omenn Award for Academic Excellence for master’s students. Eric Coker and Sean Sweeney were named outstanding undergraduate students and Christopher Carlsten the department’s outstanding graduate student.
Marcy Harrington, manager of the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center won the department’s distinguished staff award this year. The other nominees were Maureen Cornell Endres, Russell Dills, Gayathri Kishore, Azure Skye, Portia Vleit, and Jianbo Yu.
Four alumnae of the Environmental Health program, Alma
Cardenas, Marley Shoaf, Cynnie (Curl) Henderson, and
Elizabeth Spalt,
investigate a mine site in Colorado.
All work for Integral Consulting..
Courtesy of John Kissel.
At the DEOHS graduation, later that day…
Janice Camp was named the faculty mentor of the year by the department’s graduate students. Bill Daniell was also recognized for his mentoring
Other Accomplishments
Professor Dave Eaton delivered the school’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture this spring, “Genes and cancer-causing chemicals: Understanding why humans are not just big
rodents.”
Assistant Professor John Scott Meschke was awarded an EPA Star Grant.
Professor Mike Morgan is serving on the Royalty Research Fund Review Committee, the first faculty member in our department to do so.
Associate Professor Emeritus Jack Hatlen was honored in March as a trailblazer by the Western Region National Association of Medical Minority Educators. Earlier this year, the faculty helped Hatlen celebrate his 80th birthday. The department has established the Jack Hatlen Scholarship for environmental health undergraduates.
Senior Lecturer Chuck Treser was elected a Diplomate in the American Academy of Sanitarians. He is the second member of our faculty to be so honored. Hatlen is also a diplomate. Treser gave three talks at the World Congress on Environmental Health in Dublin, Ireland, in June.
PhD student Rick Neitzel won a $5000 scholarship from 3M.
Lecturer Rick Gleason was appointed to the executive board of the Evergreen Safety Council. Gleason provided a tele-conference for the National American Industrial Hygiene Association on July 11. He also spoke about technology use at the Western Region Universities Consortium Trainers’ Exchange June 12–13 in Seattle. Gleason also gave three talks this spring: at the Labor & Industries’ DOSH Conference in Ocean Shores in May; at the Region X Voluntary Protection annual meeting in Spokane on May 25; and in June at the American Society of Safety Engineers.
Associate Professor Joel Kaufman presented the NIEHS Epidemiology seminar at Research Triangle Park, NC, April 17. His topic was “Investigating air pollution effects on cardiovascular disease risk.” He also gave two talks at an EPA meeting, Update on Particulate Matter Health Effects Research, one on “Effect of diesel exhaust particulate exposures on endothelial function” and the other on “A new prospective cohort study of air pollution and cardiovascular disease.” At the 10thInternational Inhalation Symposium, Kaufman spoke about “Cardiovascular disease and air pollutants: Evaluating and improving epidemiological data implicating traffic exposure” in Hannover, Germany in early June.
Robert Rogers, MD, FACP (BS, 1977), was elected president of The Chicago Medical School National Alumni Association for 2006–2008. An attending physician at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Rogers is an active member of a number of associations and is on the editorial advisory board of Southern California Physician.
Associate Professor L-J Sally Liu and graduate students Whitney Webber and Michael Compher presented a talk “Assessing children’s exposures to diesel exhaust from commuting by diesel school buses before and after diesel engine retrofit” at the Health Effects Institute in San Francisco in April.
Research Scientist Mark Davey and Associate Professor L-J Sally Liu presented their research on “Chemical characterization of diesel crankcase and tailpipe PM emissions” with their fellow researchers at the South Coast Air Quality Management District Conference in Los Angeles in late April.
Kathy Hall, communication director, presented a talk on “Academic poster presentations: How to get noticed” at the International Communication Association meeting in Dresden, Germany, in June.
On May 8, the Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health cosponsored a Science Day with the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences. The center’s
external science advisory board met in con-junction with the seminar. Center researchers presented 35 posters and collected 68 abstracts for research done during the past year, many in collaboration with the UW Center for Child Environment Health Risks Research, Toxicogenomics Research Consortium, Superfund Basic Research
Program, Comparative Mouse Genomics Center, Oceans and Human Health, Envi-ronmental and Molecular Epidemiology Training Grant, Environmental Pathology/Toxicology Training Program, and MESA Air Pollution Study. Dr. David Schwartz, director of the NIEHS, spoke on “Environmental Genomics and Human Health.”
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