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World Trade Center Community Forum
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World Trade Center Newsletter
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World Asthma Day
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Drs. Max Costa and Judith D. Goldberg took part in Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney's press conference held on Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at NYU Medical Center regarding the need for new environment-breast cancer research.
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Dr. Judith Zelikoff, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the NYU School of Medicine, Department of Environmental Medicine spoke on the hazards of wood burning as part of the Ramsey, NJ Rotary Centennial Program as part of our Speakers Bureau.
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Dr. Morton Lippmann provided scientific evaluation of asbestos risks that might be associated with a proposed quarry operation in Warwick, NY.
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Dr. Thurston also gave presentations to NYC Council candidates about the issue of asthma and air pollution in New York City.
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Dr. Max Costa went to Trenton, NJ at the request of the New Jersey Interfaith Citizens Organization, to speak to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection about Chromium (Cr) in Jersey City, NJ, and what to do about it. Dr. Costa spent about 1 1/2 hours with the agency Commissioner and others describing the new data our Center has developed on Cr induced skin cancer in mice and the dangers of human exposure to Hexavalent Cr.
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Dr. Morton Lippmann spoke at the 8th Conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine on the topic of airline cabin air quality.
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Dr. Wirgin presented a talk at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, to the Hudson River Environmental Society entitled, "Contaminants: Use of Atlantic tomcod as a possible model to evaluate the toxic effects of pollutants on Hudson River populations." Dr. Wirgin also presented a talk, entitled "Toxic Responses to Hudson River Pollutants," on May 3, 2003 at the Washington Square Campus of NYU to the Marine Biology Intern Program.
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Dr. Chen also spoke to the groups: Architecture Research Institute, Inc. and Rebuild Downtown Our Town at Pace University.
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Dr. Catherine Klein's Suffern, NY High School STIR program student, Joshua Matz, was named a semi-finalist in the Intel competition.
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NYU/EPA South Bronx Environmental Health & Policy Study: Youth Participation & Leadership Program was initiated in conjunction with an ongoing study of air pollution in the South Bronx being conducted by Dr. Chen. The main goal of that South Bronx Environmental Health and Policy Study is to study environmental and health issues affecting the South Bronx, with particular emphasis on the relationships between air quality, transportation, waste transfer activity, demographic characteristics, and public health. It is a collaborative research project that involves the NYU School of Medicine's Department of Environmental Medicine, the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service's Institute for Civil Infrastructure Systems (ICIS), and four community groups: The Point Community Development Corporation, We Stay/Nos Quedamos, Sports Foundation Inc., and Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice Inc.
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Our Center lent ozone and nitrogen oxides air monitoring equipment to assist the Queens College Center for the Biology of Natural Systems in outfitting a mobile air monitoring station in order to provide more information to the community in the Bronx about air pollution levels in that inner-city community.
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A summer workshop for was organized for students from the New York Academy of Sciences. The objective was to expose students to scientific equipment, research processes, and to hear brief presentations by researchers about what they are studying and what health implications their research has. This workshop was held at our Center and at the Sterling Forest Visitors Center. Students learned about the ecology of the Forest at the Visitor's Center. At our Center, students were introduced to pieces of research equipment (e.g., air monitoring and lung function instruments) that were utilized during hands on demonstrations. Students participated in data collection where they measured lung function, and then plotted their data versus height, showing how lung size varies with height. In addition to this, Dr. Eric Tang gave the group a presentation on cigarette smoke and lung cancer, in which he shared his ground-breaking research results finding the "smoking gun" in the mechanism behind cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
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