|
Program
Update 2002
November 30, 2002
Lauren Kingsley '04 Receives Beckman Scholarship
 |
Lauren Kingsley |
Dartmouth College has awarded Lauren
Kingsley ‘04 a Beckman Scholarship. As an intern in the
laboratory of Dartmouth Medical School toxicologist Joshua Hamilton,
Lauren has been investigating the effect of arsenic on cancer
cell growth, research that she will continue through the next
academic year with the support of this scholarship. Her research
focuses on the chemical and structural basis of arsenic’s
interaction with a specific hormone receptor within the cell that
may contribute to the ability of arsenic to increase risk of cancer,
diabetes and other diseases. She is planning to culminate her
undergraduate research in a Senior Honors Thesis. Lauren is one
of three students selected as Beckman Scholars this year from
a talented pool within the Dartmouth community.
MORE>>
November 18, 2002
Mass
Spectrometer Will Aid Studies of Environment
|
| Stefan
Sturup, Ph.D., Director of the Trace Elements Core Laboratory
|
Like Harry Potter and his
new Nimbus 2000, a group of Dartmouth researchers who study how
the environment works are excited by a new acquisition that can
break down organic samples and reveal molecular species of the
elements. With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)
the team has just purchased a new mass spectrometer - but not
just any mass spectrometer. The new one is an Octapole ICPMS (inductively
coupled plasma mass spectrometer) with an added GC (gas chromatograph)
component. The combination of GC and ICPMS is a powerful tool
for speciation analysis. It's a combination only available to
a couple of institutions in the United States.
MORE
>>
Oct 22,
2002
Dartmouth, Arizona Awarded Funding to Collaborate
Dartmouth and the University of Arizona have
independently established strong interdisciplinary research
programs funded by the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences (NIEHS) to study the health effects of arsenic
in drinking water. Now NIEHS has awarded a $150,000 supplement
to assist them in establishing a formal collaboration between
their programs. Dartmouth’s interdisciplinary research
project, "Toxic Metals in the Northeast: From Biological
to Environmental Implications" and the University of
Arizona's "Hazardous Waste Risk and Remediation in the
Southwest" are funded through the NIEHS Superfund Basic
Research Program. The new supplement will allow them to more
formally develop collaborative projects, share data and methodologies,
and develop cooperative pilot projects. MORE>>
June
20, 2002
Dartmouth Students Investigate Gold Mining Legacy
in Nicaragua
 |
Joel Wickre |
Halfway between the gravel airstrip
where Joel Wickre landed for his internship in Nicaragua and
the university that was to house him, the pickup truck broke
down. He and his companions made the rest of the trip to the
town of Siuna on foot. Reliable transportation can't be taken
for granted in this remote and rugged region of Nicaragua; neither
can clean water.
MORE>>
May 24, 2002
Arsenic to be Focus of Scientific Conference Sponsored by New
Hampshire Consortium
 |
Dr. Joshua Hamilton
at the Arsenic in New England Conference May 2002
|
MANCHESTER, NH
- The New Hampshire Consortium on Arsenic will sponsor a scientific
conference this week in the Center of New Hampshire in Manchester.
Approximately 160 researchers, public health officials and water
resource managers from across the United States are expected to
attend the two-and-a-half day conference, which will begin at
8 a.m. Wednesday, May 29. The "Arsenic in New England" conference
will provide an overview of new findings in a range of scientific
disciplines from geology to molecular biology. MORE>>
February 18, 2002
Angeline
Andrew Winner of Cancer Research Fellowship
Angeline Andrew, Post-doctoral Research Associate, is the
recipient of the Cancer Prevention Research Fellowship sponsored
by American Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO) and the
Cancer Research Foundation of America (CRFA) and funded by
CRFA. The objectives of this research project are to determine
whether expression of DNA repair genes is associated with
bladder cancer risk, to identify specific DNA repair genes
that may modify this risk, to further elucidate the underlying
mechanisms of bladder carcinogenesis and to determine the
role of arsenic in this process. The two-year award carries
a stipend of $30,000 a year. She will attend the American
Society of Preventive Oncology's annual conference in Bethesda
in March to receive the award.
The American Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO), now 25
years old, is a multidisciplinary society that serves as an
advocate for research on cancer prevention and control.
Nancy
Serrell
Center
for Environmental Health Sciences at Dartmouth
|
