News:

• The New Hampshire Pediatric Society awards Dr. John Moeschler, MD, affiliated with the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Center at Dartmouth, the Pediatrician of the Year award in appreciation for his outstanding dedication and service to the children of New Hampshire
  
  
• Podcast: Bite of Arsenic with Kathy Cottingham, PhD
  
  Dr. Cottingham is one of environmental health science's foremost researchers, please join in as she discusses the motivation and vision behind her research.

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• Children's Center Associate Director Carol Folt Appointed Interim President of Dartmouth


• League of Women Voters of the Upper Valley in collaboration with Dr. Carolyn Murray presents an environmental series Bringing Nature Home: Creating a Healthy Landscape 
  
  
• Researchers at the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Center at Dartmouth, in collaboration with Brian Jackson, call attention to high levels of arsenic (AS) found in organic rice syrup, and stress the need for regulatory limits on arsenic in food

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  Click HERE for the DartmouthNOW news article

  Click HERE for the Environmental Health Perspectives peer-reviewed article

  Click HERE for the DOI link
  

• The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publishes: Study Improves our Understanding of Dietary Sources of Arsenic

• The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) announces Dartmouth Researchers' Evaluation of Rice as a Source of Fetal Arsenic Exposure



• Dartmouth NOW announces: the publication of Rice Consumption Contributes to Arsenic Exposure in U.S. Women in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal


• Dr. Karagas Meets Surgeon General Benjamin


• Environmental Health News: It's Elemental: Many Private Wells Across U.S. are Contaminated with Arsenic and Other Elements
  


• U.S. Geological Survey announces: Arsenic, Uranium and Other Trace Elements, a potential Concern in Private Drinking Wells

The full study and findings can be accessed at: http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/trace/pubs/sir2011-5059

• Xun Shi, PhD, and Principal Investigator for Project 3 currently has a paper named one of the top 25 papers by International Journal of Geographical Information Science. The paper is titled: Selection of Bandwidth Type and Adjustment Side in Kernel Density Estimation Over Inhomogeneous Backgrounds
  

 

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