Research & Innovation Magazine
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Faculty Capabilities Faculty Accomplishments Dr. Robert C. Wingfield, Jr., facilitated our Fisk University Environmental Health Workshop “Reducing Your Family’s Exposure to Toxic Chemicals at Home, Work and Play” on March 23, 2019 in the Multipurpose Room, of Spence Hall. The workshop addressed the following topics: •
Toxic chemicals of concern
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Sources of exposure to toxic substance in the home and community
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Routes of exposure and health risks
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Steps to reduce use and exposure to toxic chemicals
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Proper disposal of household hazardous waste
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Going Green: “Safer Choices” and environmentally friendly chemicals for use in the home Dr. Sajid Hussain participated in the Google Faculty-in-Residence program in Austin, TX on March 22, 2019.
Dr. Lee Limbird is serving on the Review Pane22l for the National Institutes of Health Undergraduate training program (student stipends and tuition) to develop the next generation of neuroscientists currently underrepresented in Discovery and Leadership. 30
Congratulations to our Principal Investigators
Congratulations to our dedicated principal investigators. The list of grants and the associated Fisk faculty who brought these grants to Fisk: Targeted Infusion Project: Infusing Quantitative Biology Methods into Cognate and Upper Division Courses: Enhancement of the Life Sciences Curriculum at Fisk University Dr. Steven Morgan (Principal Investigator) Dr. Phyllis Freeman (Co-Principal Investigator) Dr. Steven Damo (Co-Principal Investigator) Targeted Infusion Project: Strengthening the Undergraduate STEM Curriculum at Fisk University through the Infusion of Computational-Biological content in Pre-Calculus Dr. Sanjukta Hota (Principal Investigator) Dr. Brian Nelms (Co-Principal Investigator) Dr. Lei Qian (Co-Principal Investigator) Research Initiation Award Grant: Synthesize and Characterize of Disulfonated Poly(arylene ether sulfone-tetrachlorocyclotriphosphazene) Hybrid Copolymers Dr. Natalie Arnett (Principal Investigator) Dr. Warren Collins (Co-Principal Investigator) Research Initiation Award: Revealing the Structural Basis for Calprotectin-RAGE Signaling Axis Dr. Steven Damo (Principal Investigator)
