Research hub aims to unravel health effects of microplastic pollution
The Rochester-based center will let researchers to investigate the interactions between plastic pollution, the Great Lakes environment, and human health.
Health, justice, and an abandoned aqueduct
The University of Rochester students in PHLT 238: Environmental Health and Justice in the Rochester Community recently explored something hidden from most people in Rochester—the abandoned aqueduct and subway tunnel located under the Broad Street Bridge in the heart of downtown. The tour, led by ROC the Riverway Program Manager Kamal Crues (pictured), gave the 11 undergraduates a chance to consider multiple—and occasionally conflicting—interests and values central to the city’s “Aqueduct Reimagined” project. Read more.
Wastewater surveillance detects COVID-19 on college campuses, Rochester researchers find
The results could provide a blueprint for nursing homes, workplaces, jails, and other institutions to monitor for COVID and other infectious diseases.
An adapted classroom: Students and faculty find new ways to engage in teaching and learning
Students and faculty members adapt to new—and safety-conscious—ways of interacting as teachers, scholars, and researchers.
Public health joins dance to put arts into action
In an effort to understand how to initiate change in a community, students in an Arts and Activism course, and their counterparts in an Environmental Health and Justice course, met up in Rochester dance studio to create some new moves.
Hot town, Summer Sustainability Fellows in the city
How will climate change affect the health and well-being of City of Rochester residents? This summer, students in a new sustainability fellowship program worked with city officials to help answer the question.