Publications - Index to Environmental Health News
1989-present

The on-line archives begin with Autumn 1998. Hard copies of earlier editions are available on request from the editor.

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Spring/Summer 2007 -- Environmental Health-Protecting Vulnerable Populations

Winter 2007 -- Air Pollution: Inside and Out

Autumn 2006 -- Helping the Hidden Workforce

Summer 2006 -- Toxicology in Action

Winter 2006 -- Agricultural Injuries and Illnesses

Autumn 2005 -- Stages of Working Life

Spring/Summer 2005 -- A Many-Faceted Department

Winter 2005 -- Making a Difference

Autumn 2004 -- Air Pollution and Human Health

Spring-Summer 2004 -- Celebrating Our Students

Winter 2003 -- Department Changes Its Name

• Department Changes Its Name
• Departmental History
• The First Occ Med Doc
• Harvey Checkoway: Distinguished Faculty Lecture
• Chris Simpson: Environmental and Occupational Exposures
• Biomarkers
• Starting Safety Young
• People & Places
• Continuing Education
• Update
• Fine Print

Autumn 2002 -- Cultivating Collaborations

• Cultivating Collaborations
  • Collaborations on Childrens Health
  • Stockroom Becomes a Classroom
  • Ag Center: Cultivating Collaborations
  • Our Role in a New Rule
• ISEA/ISEE Conference
• Continuing Education Calendar
• People & Places
• Grand Rounds
• International Collaboration
• Fine Print

Spring 2002 -- Basic Research & Superfund

• Basic Research & Superfund
  • Superfund Projects
  • Superfund History
  • Superfund Outreach
• Student Research Day
• Student Poster Session
• American Industrial Hygiene Conference
• Society of Toxicology
• Continuing Education
• Degrees
• People & Places
• Curt Omiecinski
• AG & Health Care Conferences

Winter 2002 -- Our Alumni

• Our Alumni: 1000 and Counting
• From the Chair
• Coming Full Circle: #1 Carl Osaki
• 10 Essential Public Health Services
• Alumni Profiles
  • Thomas McHugh, PhD
  • Brad Prezant, MSPH, MBA, CIH, CPE
  • Kim Lowry Coble, MSPH
  • Joe Coble, MSPH, ScD, CIH
  • Bradley A. Evanoff, MD, MPH
• New Faculty Member
• Databases & Web sites
• Continuing Education
• People & Places
• CE Catalog

Autumn 2001 -- Science & Public Policy

• Science & Public Policy
  • Arsenic in Drinking Water
  • Graduate Training
  • Training Scientists in Policy & Vice Versa
  • Emergency Preparedness
  • Helping Make Public Policy
  • Alice Hamilton, Policy Pioneer
• Toxicogenomics Consortium
• Research & its Application to Ergonomics
• Ergonomics Policy Evaluation
• People & Places
• People and Places
• Continuing Education
• New MPH Program

Spring 2001 -- Chemicals in Our Bodies

• Human Effects
• Lead Poisoning in History
• Student Research Day
• Student Poster Session
• Continuing Education
• People and Places
• Distinguished Faculty
• Society of Toxicology
• AIH Conference
• Degrees

Winter 2001 -- Working in Asia

• Working in Asia
• Impressions: Occupational Health in China
• International Scholars
• Shanghai: Study Focuses on Women Textile Workers
• History: Dying from Dyeing
• Assistant Professors
  • Ergonomics: New Tools to Track Computer Injuriess
  • The Next Generation
• Towering Hazards
• Continuing Education
• OSHA Coursees Online
• People and Places
• Occupational Medicine

Autumn 2000 -- In the Community

• In the Valley
• Hispanic Theater
• Fluorescent Imaging
• Health Histories
• Field Group
• Continuing Education
• In the Classroom
  • Prime Time at Meany
  • Training Middle School Teachers
  • Women in Science History
• Town Meeting
  • Environmental Problems
  • Workshops
• Community-Based Research
• Working with Tribes
• People & Places
• Presentations
• Continuing Education
• New Graduate Program
• Ergonomics Study

Spring - Summer 2000--The Teaching Mission

• New Department Chair
• Distance Learning
• Outstanding Teacher
• Town Meeting
• Career Day
• HERE@UW
• People and Places
• Continuing Education
• Society of Toxicology
• Graduate Degrees
• American Industrial Hygiene Conference
• Highlights

Winter 2000--Constructing a Safer Workplace

• Construction safety
  • Hearing conservation
  • Silica control
  • 800 years ago (cathedral construction)
• Genetic factors (pesticide susceptibility)
• Linking international scholars
• Setting standards--mercury presents a challenge
• Continuing education
• People and places

Autumn 1999--Working Together

• EPA Northwest Center for Particulate Matter and Health
  • State reduces air monitoring
  • Particularly deadly air
• Finding ergonomic solutions
• Agenda for forestry safety
• Partnerships with:
  • Alzheimer's researchers
  • Public health department
  • Regulatory agencies and business
• Preventing workplace violence

Spring/Summer 1999--Solving Problems

• Ancient Traditions--New Solutions (Field Group solves Swinomish smokehouse problem)
  • Looking at risks from a tribal perspective
  • Longhouse keeps cultural fires burning
• The University as Corporate Medical Director (at Weyerhaeuser)
• Glowing Evidence of Pesticide Exposure (fluorescent tracer technique)
• Wetting the Stone--Consulting Group Helps Countertop Industry (with sidebars on silica disease and Field Group)
• UW Takes Leadership Role at Society of Toxicology
• Q&A
• Student Research Day

Winter 1999--Toxicology

• Toxicology and you
• Hanford workers and beryllium
• The mercury in your teeth
  • Mercury distinctions
  • Mercury in Wonderland
• Assessing worker exposures

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Autumn 1998--Exposure Assessment

• Exposure assessment
• When you fill that gas tank
  • Oxygenated fuels
• Fine particle air pollution
• Detecting lead
• Arsenic in United States water
  • Napoleon's wallpaper
• Climate change and emerging pathogens
• NW Occupational Health Conference
• David Kalman--DEH's interim chair

Spring-Summer 1998--Protecting Children's Health

• How are pesticides affecting our children?
  • Pesticides in the legal arena
• Why are thousands of farm children injured each year?
  • Is PNASH a new adjective?
• For children's sake: a pediatric environmental health specialty unit
• Making schools healthier for children
• Student research day 1998
• Researching Parkinson's disease -- from two different directions
  • Dopamine and the basal ganglia
• American Industrial Hygiene Conference
• Good-bye Ellen -- Hello Pat
• A backward glance -- Gerald van Belle

Winter 1998 -- Research

Window into the Department

Asthma Rising

• The asthma connection
• Healthier homes?

Oldest known AIDS virus

Society of Toxicology's annual meeting in Seattle

• Breathless in Seattle
• Paracelsus goes to school
• More questions than answers (breast cancer)

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Fall 1997--Anniversary Issue

• 50 Years of Undergraduate Education
• Departmental timeline
• Alumni profiles -- then and now
  • Jack Hatlen
  • Thomas Barton
  • Karen Jenkins VanDusen
  • Darrell Tsujii
  • Calvin Terada
  • Jude Van Buren
  • Chao-Lin Hsieh

Spring-Summer 1997--"Extracurricular" Means Teaching Teachers and Much More

• Environmental health sciences for educators
• Environmental health goes digital (Risky Business)
• Open House, career day attract students of all ages
• Science in Policy -- Environmental Health course shows the way it is
• Student research sampler -- student research day
• Genetics in the service of epidemiology (gene fingerprinting, E. coli)
• Integrating school and work (on the job injury among teens)

Winter 1997--Integrating Risk, People and the Environment

• Risk assessment
  • What is CRESP?
  • Why assess ecological risk?
  • New institute to foster risk research
• Environmental health, sciences meet in Seattle (AAAS)
• Making science work for the community (fish and Asian Pacific American communities)
• Society of Toxicology meeting

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Fall 1996--Collaborations

• Partnership between L&I and Environmental Health
  • Advice & council
  • A collaborative tradition
• Tough outcomes, tough questions (success of surgery in worker comp. cases)
• Service behind the scenes (Environmental. Health laboratory)
• Center studies chemical illness (Harborview center for chemically related illness)
• Service in the field (Field Research and Consultation Group)
• Biomarkers (biomarker lab)
• Getting a handle on hard-metal lung disease

Winter 1996

• The DEH molecular biomarker lab: a high-capacity genotyping facility
• DEH ergonomics laboratory: improving worker health and safety
• UW student chapter of the American Industrial Hygiene Assn. formed
• DEH sponsors two home pages on the World Wide Web
• Student research day

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Autumn 1995

• Pesticide exposure: a topic for ongoing research at UW
• Genetic and environment interactions focus for Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health
• School of Public Health designated as OSHA training center
• Thesis titles

Spring 1995

• DEH faculty reaps honors at Society of Toxicology meeting
• Reproductive hazards of occupational lead exposure
• DEH relocates several programs to the Roosevelt building
• AIH conference
• Student Research Day
• Doctoral degrees
• NSF award

Winter 1995

• Looking into time and space
• Tackling the research challengers posed by nuclear production site cleanup
• Laboratory automation for analysis of environmental samples
• Thesis titles
• Murphy fund and Murphy chair

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Spring 1994

• Linda Rosenstock named NIOSH director
• Undergraduate education in Environmental Health
• A survey of local health departments in the State of Washington
• Student research day
• AICHE participants

Winter 1994

• The Continuing Education and Outreach Program (sidebars on The Northwest Center and Hazardous Substance Training Courses)
• Detection of occult hepatotoxicity in solvent exposed workers
• Society of Toxicology annual meeting

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Autumn 1993

• The Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program
• The environmental challenge chamber: a tool for specific bronchoprovocation testing at Harborview Medical Center
• The human neurological effects of organophosphate pesticides
• Graduates and thesis titles

Spring 1993

• New DEH biomonitoring laboratory helps identify toxic exposures and effects
• The scanning laser cytometer: a new tool for toxicology research
• Using molecular biology to identify sources of environmental contamination
• AIH conference
• Student research day

Winter 1993

• Industrial Hygiene program prepares for future
• Noah Seixas and Michael Yost join department
• The meeting of industrial hygiene and epidemiology: quantitative occupational exposure assessment
• Exposure to electric and magnetic fields
• Society of Toxicology annual meeting
• Psychology of safety

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Autumn 1992

• DEH investigators receive funding for Superfund basic research
• Studies link DNA changes in tissues to the early detection of cancer
• Safety: common sense or professional discipline?
• Thesis titles

Spring 1992

• Analytic chemistry in support of environmental health
• Air pollution: effects and mechanisms of toxicity
• Safety: common sense or professional discipline?
• Dr. John T. Wilson retires
• Student research day
• AIH conference

Winter 1992

• Neurotoxicology: a growing discipline
• Indoor radon
• Professor T. Lee Doolittle retires
• Landfill gas and community air quality: an impact assessment
• Society of Toxicology annual meeting

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Autumn 1991

• Flow cytometry: a new tool for toxicological studies
• Pesticide exposure at work and home
• The Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety
• Thesis titles

Spring 1991

• Applications of biomarkers to epidemiological research
• Dermal uptake of TCDD from soil (introducing John Kissel)
• Common frontiers in occupational and environmental health sciences
• The Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
• AIH conference
• Student research day

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Autumn 1990

• DEH interim chair - Dr. Gerald van Belle
• Wood smoke and air quality
• DEH environmental health sciences-technology program
• Workers compensation for occupational disease
• From the laboratory to the factory - DEH contributions to occupational health in Washington State (departmental history: part II, 1961-1990)

Spring 1990

• Remembering Department chair, Dr. Sheldon D. Murphy, 1933-1990
• State agency takes lead in regulating toxic air pollutants
• DEH History: Part I (1950-1960)
• Can ion generator devices improve air quality?
• AIH conference
• Occupational lead poisonings studied
• Student research day

Winter 1990

• PhD in Environmental Health now offered
• Mechanism of trace metal-induced porphyria and toxicity
• DEH field programs serve Washington workers
• Hazards of auto body repair
• Society of Toxicology annual meeting
• Environmental health laboratory assesses arsenic exposure for CDC

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Autumn 1989

• Toxicology - a leading role in environmental health
• Superfund basic research highlights DEH investigators
• Just when you thought it was safe to drink the water…
• DEH toxicology program
• Masters thesis titles
• Cobalt exposures enhanced by synthetic coolants?

Spring 1989

• Video display terminal worker study
• Prevention of asbestos-induced lung cancer
• Industrial hygiene program continues to grow at UW
• Student research day
• Newsletter gets new name and format

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