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Marie Lynn Miranda discusses one remaining, albeit relatively minor, source of lead exposure: leaded aviation gasoline.

Miranda discusses lead exposure with Environmental Health Perspectives

Marie Lynn Miranda, professor and dean at the School of Natural Resources and Environment, was interviewed by Environmental Health Perspectives regarding her research into children’s exposure to leaded aviation gasoline.

The interview, with host Ashley Ahearn, was turned into a podcast as part of the journal’s The Researcher’s Perspective series.

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Lake Superior. Image credit: Michigan Sea Grant

U-M launches $9 million effort to strengthen Great Lakes restoration while advancing research and education

A new $9 million University of Michigan Great Lakes research and education center will guide efforts to protect and restore the world’s largest group of freshwater lakes by reducing toxic contamination, combating invasive species, protecting wildlife habitat and promoting coastal health. With a $4.5 million, three-year grant from the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation, the new University of Michigan Water Center will provide a solid scientific framework for more efficient and effective Great Lakes restoration.

Professor William C. Sullivan gives the Rackham Centennial Alumni Lecture in the Dana Building Oct. 25.

Sullivan offers tips to graduate students in Rackham Centennial Lecture

SNRE alumnus William C. Sullivan provided today’s graduate students with tips on making their research and professional lives more meaningful.

Sullivan, who earned his doctoral degree in 1991 from SNRE, was invited to give the school’s Rackham Centennial Alumni Lecture. About 110 people attended the Oct. 25 talk in the Dana Building. He is a professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (View the lecture)

The University of Michigan and 20 other U.S. and Canadian universities will join forces to propose a set of long-term research and policy priorities to help protect and restore the Great Lakes and to train the next generation of scientists, attorneys, planners and policy specialists who will study them.

U-M, other universities launch Great Lakes protection project

The University of Michigan and 20 other U.S. and Canadian universities will join forces to propose a set of long-term research and policy priorities to help protect and restore the Great Lakes and to train the next generation of scientists, attorneys, planners and policy specialists who will study them. The Great Lakes Futures Project of the Transborder Research University Network will use a cross-disciplinary, cross-sector approach to outlining alternative Great Lakes futures through science-based scenario analysis.

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