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\"\"Program Update<\/span><\/h2>\n
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STEEP Trainee Highlights<\/h1>\n
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Dr. Jitka Becanova, STEEP Trainee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Congratulations to Jitka Becanova for receiving the SRP K.C. Donnelly Externship Award.  Jitka is a STEEP postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Rainer Lohmann at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography.  For her externship, Jitka will work with Dr. Robert Hurt at the Brown University SRP Center in Providence, RI to study the sorption behavior of PFAS on advanced graphite-based nanomaterials.  The aim of Dr. Becanova\u2019s work is to develop and test different nanographenes as passive samplers for detecting PFAS.<\/p>\n

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Other Trainee News:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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L-R: Dr. Laura Armstrong (Rutgers University), Emily Martell (STEEP Trainee), Marisa Pfohl (STEEP Trainee), and Dr. Ajay Donepudi (UCONN) at the SOT March 2018 meeting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Emily Martell, a doctoral candidate in Dr. Angela Slitt\u2019s lab at the URI College of Pharmacy, received the Northeast Society of Toxicology Travel Award, 3rd place ($500), to attend the 57th<\/sup> Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology in San Antonio, TX, March 2018, She presented her research in \u201cPerfluoroctanesulfonic Acid (PFOS) Worsens Hepatic Steatosis and Induces Fatty Acid Uptake in Mice Fed a High Fat Diet and High Fat to Low Fat Diet Switch.\u201d Co-authors:  Marisa Pfohl, Cameron Picard, Nicholas DaSilva, Firas Sammoura, Jasmine Ayala, and Angela Slitt.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Xindi Hu and Dr. Clifton Dassuncao<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Congratulations to Dr. Xindi Hu and Dr. Clifton Dassuncao for successfully defending their doctoral dissertations this past spring at Harvard University in Dr. Elsie Sunderland\u2019s lab.<\/p>\n