Newsletter
Environmental Health News Archive
The on-line archives (downloadable PDF and link to the newsletter stories in HTML) begin with Autumn 1998. Hard copies of earlier editions are available on request from the editor.
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Spring/Summer 2012 -- “Big Picture” Technologies: A Systems Approach to Research (link to newsletter stories)
Winter 2012 -- Preventing Disability (link to newsletter stories)
Autumn 2011 -- Making "Safe" Part of High-Risk Work (link to newsletter stories)
Spring/Summer 2011-- Sustaining the Future of Environmental Health (link to newsletter stories)
Winter 2011 -- Working Together to Improve Public Health (link to newsletter stories)
Autumn 2010 -- Prevention is Our Priority (link to newsletter stories)
Spring/Summer 2010 -- Our Health is in Good Hands (link to newsletter stories)
Autumn 2009/Winter 2010 -- Investments in Public Health (link to newsletter stories)
Spring/Summer 2009 -- Beyond The Ivory Tower (link to newsletter stories)
Winter 2009 -- Workers Health & Safety (link to newsletter stories)
Autumn 2008 -- Emerging Issues (link to newsletter stories)
Spring/Summer 2008 -- Students and the Science of Exposure
Winter 2008 -- 60th Anniversary (link to newsletter stories)
Autumn 2007 -- Children's Environmental Health (link to newsletter stories)
Spring/Summer 2007 -- Environmental Health-Protecting Vulnerable Populations (link to newsletter stories)
Winter 2007 -- Air Pollution: Inside and Out (link to newsletter stories)
Autumn 2006 -- Helping the Hidden Workforce (link to newsletter stories)
Spring/Summer 2006 -- Toxicology in Action (link to newsletter stories)
Winter 2006 -- Agricultural Injuries and Illnesses (link to newsletter stories)
Autumn 2005 -- Stages of Working Life (link to newsletter stories)
Spring/Summer 2005 -- A Many-Faceted Department (link to newsletter stories)
Winter 2005 -- Making a Difference (link to newsletter stories)
Autumn 2004 -- Air Pollution and Human Health (link to newsletter stories)
Spring-Summer 2004 -- Celebrating Our Students (link to newsletter stories)
Winter 2004 -- Crossing Borders (link to newsletter stories)
Autumn 2003 -- Safety Culture in the Workplace (link to newsletter stories)
Spring/Summer 2003 -- Respiratory Diseases (link to newsletter stories)
Winter 2003 -- Department Changes Its Name (link to newsletter stories)
Autumn 2002 -- Cultivating Collaborations (link to newsletter stories)
Spring/Summer 2002 -- Basic Research & Superfund
Winter 2002 -- Our Alumni (link to newsletter stories)
Autumn 2001 -- Science & Public Policy (link to newsletter stories)
Spring/Summer 2001 -- Chemicals in Our Bodies (link to newsletter stories)
Winter 2001 -- Working in Asia (link to newsletter stories)
Autumn 2000 -- In the Community (link to newsletter stories)
Spring/Summer 2000--The Teaching Mission (link to newsletter stories)
Winter 2000--Constructing a Safer Workplace (link to newsletter stories)
Autumn 1999--Working Together (link to newsletter stories)
- EPA Northwest Center for Particulate Matter and Health
- State reduces air monitoring
- History: Particularly deadly air
- Finding ergonomic solutions
- Setting a research agenda for forestry safety
- Partnerships with:
- Alzheimer's researchers
- Public health department
- Regulatory agencies and business
- Preventing workplace violence
- PDF version of the newsletter
Spring/Summer 1999--Solving Problems (link to newsletter stories)
- Ancient Traditions--New Solutions (Field Group solves Swinomish smokehouse problem)
- Looking at risks from a tribal perspective
- Longhouse keeps cultural fires burning
- The University as Corporate Medical Director (at Weyerhaeuser)
- Glowing Evidence of Pesticide Exposure (fluorescent tracer technique)
- Wetting the Stone--Consulting Group Helps Countertop Industry (with sidebars on silica disease and Field Group)
- UW Takes Leadership Role at Society of Toxicology
- Q&A
- Student Research Day
- PDF version of the newsletter
Winter 1999--Toxicology (link to newsletter stories)
- Toxicology and you
- Hanford workers and beryllium
- The mercury in your teeth
- Mercury distinctions
- Mercury in Wonderland
- Assessing worker exposures
- PDF version of the newsletter
Autumn 1998--Exposure Assessment (link to newsletter stories)
- Exposure assessment
- When you fill that gas tank
- Oxygenated fuels
- Fine particle air pollution
- Detecting lead
- Arsenic in United States water
- History: Napoleon's wallpaper
- Climate change and emerging pathogens
- David Kalman--DEH's interim chair
- PDF version of the newsletter
Spring-Summer 1998--Protecting Children's Health
- How are pesticides affecting our children?
- Pesticides in the legal arena
- Why are thousands of farm children injured each year?
- Is PNASH a new adjective?
- For children's sake: a pediatric environmental health specialty unit
- Making schools healthier for children
- Student research day 1998
- Researching Parkinson's disease -- from two different directions
- Dopamine and the basal ganglia
- American Industrial Hygiene Conference
- Good-bye Ellen -- Hello Pat
- A backward glance -- Gerald van Belle
Winter 1998 -- Research
Window into the Department Asthma Rising
- The asthma connection
- Healthier homes?
- Oldest known AIDS virus Society of Toxicology's annual meeting in Seattle
- Breathless in Seattle
- Paracelsus goes to school
- More questions than answers (breast cancer)
Fall 1997--Anniversary Issue
- 50 Years of Undergraduate Education
- Departmental timeline
- Alumni profiles -- then and now
- Jack Hatlen
- Thomas Barton
- Karen Jenkins VanDusen
- Darrell Tsujii
- Calvin Terada
- Jude Van Buren
- Chao-Lin Hsieh
Spring-Summer 1997--"Extracurricular" Means Teaching Teachers and Much More
- Environmental health sciences for educators
- Environmental health goes digital (Risky Business)
- Open House, career day attract students of all ages
- Science in Policy -- Environmental Health course shows the way it is
- Student research sampler -- student research day
- Genetics in the service of epidemiology (gene fingerprinting, E. coli)
- Integrating school and work (on the job injury among teens)
Winter 1997--Integrating Risk, People and the Environment
- Risk assessment
- What is CRESP?
- Why assess ecological risk?
- New institute to foster risk research
- Environmental health, sciences meet in Seattle (AAAS)
- Making science work for the community (fish and Asian Pacific American communities)
- Society of Toxicology meeting
Fall 1996--Collaborations
- Partnership between L&I and Environmental Health
- Advice & council
- A collaborative tradition
- Tough outcomes, tough questions (success of surgery in worker comp. cases)
- Service behind the scenes (Environmental. Health laboratory)
- Center studies chemical illness (Harborview center for chemically related illness)
- Service in the field (Field Research and Consultation Group)
- Biomarkers (biomarker lab)
- Getting a handle on hard-metal lung disease
Winter 1996
- The DEH molecular biomarker lab: a high-capacity genotyping facility
- DEH ergonomics laboratory: improving worker health and safety
- UW student chapter of the American Industrial Hygiene Assn. formed
- DEH sponsors two home pages on the World Wide Web
- Student research day
Autumn 1995
- Pesticide exposure: a topic for ongoing research at UW
- Genetic and environment interactions focus for Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health
- School of Public Health designated as OSHA training center
- Thesis titles
Spring 1995
- DEH faculty reaps honors at Society of Toxicology meeting
- Reproductive hazards of occupational lead exposure
- DEH relocates several programs to the Roosevelt building
- AIH conference
- Student Research Day
- Doctoral degrees
- NSF award
Winter 1995
- Looking into time and space
- Tackling the research challengers posed by nuclear production site cleanup
- Laboratory automation for analysis of environmental samples
- Thesis titles
- Murphy fund and Murphy chair
Spring 1994
- Linda Rosenstock named NIOSH director
- Undergraduate education in Environmental Health
- A survey of local health departments in the State of Washington
- Student research day
- AICHE participants
Winter 1994
- The Continuing Education and Outreach Program (sidebars on The Northwest Center and Hazardous Substance Training Courses)
- Detection of occult hepatotoxicity in solvent exposed workers
- Society of Toxicology annual meeting
Autumn 1993
- The Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program
- The environmental challenge chamber: a tool for specific bronchoprovocation testing at Harborview Medical Center
- The human neurological effects of organophosphate pesticides
- Graduates and thesis titles
Spring 1993
- New DEH biomonitoring laboratory helps identify toxic exposures and effects
- The scanning laser cytometer: a new tool for toxicology research
- Using molecular biology to identify sources of environmental contamination
- AIH conference
- Student research day
Winter 1993
- Industrial Hygiene program prepares for future
- Noah Seixas and Michael Yost join department
- The meeting of industrial hygiene and epidemiology: quantitative occupational exposure assessment
- Exposure to electric and magnetic fields
- Society of Toxicology annual meeting
- Psychology of safety
Autumn 1992
- DEH investigators receive funding for Superfund basic research
- Studies link DNA changes in tissues to the early detection of cancer
- Safety: common sense or professional discipline?
- Thesis titles
Spring 1992
- Analytic chemistry in support of environmental health
- Air pollution: effects and mechanisms of toxicity
- Safety: common sense or professional discipline?
- Dr. John T. Wilson retires
- Student research day
- AIH conference
Winter 1992
- Neurotoxicology: a growing discipline
- Indoor radon
- Professor T. Lee Doolittle retires
- Landfill gas and community air quality: an impact assessment
- Society of Toxicology annual meeting
Autumn 1991
- Flow cytometry: a new tool for toxicological studies
- Pesticide exposure at work and home
- The Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety
- Thesis titles
Spring 1991
- Applications of biomarkers to epidemiological research
- Dermal uptake of TCDD from soil (introducing John Kissel)
- Common frontiers in occupational and environmental health sciences
- The Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
- AIH conference
- Student research day
Autumn 1990
- DEH interim chair - Dr. Gerald van Belle
- Wood smoke and air quality
- DEH environmental health sciences-technology program
- Workers compensation for occupational disease
- From the laboratory to the factory - DEH contributions to occupational health in Washington State (departmental history: part II, 1961-1990)
Spring 1990
- Remembering Department chair, Dr. Sheldon D. Murphy, 1933-1990
- State agency takes lead in regulating toxic air pollutants
- DEH History: Part I (1950-1960)
- Can ion generator devices improve air quality?
- AIH conference
- Occupational lead poisonings studied
- Student research day
Winter 1990
- PhD in Environmental Health now offered
- Mechanism of trace metal-induced porphyria and toxicity
- DEH field programs serve Washington workers
- Hazards of auto body repair
- Society of Toxicology annual meeting
- Environmental health laboratory assesses arsenic exposure for CDC
Autumn 1989
- Toxicology - a leading role in environmental health
- Superfund basic research highlights DEH investigators
- Just when you thought it was safe to drink the water…
- DEH toxicology program
- Masters thesis titles
- Cobalt exposures enhanced by synthetic coolants?
Spring 1989
- Video display terminal worker study
- Prevention of asbestos-induced lung cancer
- Industrial hygiene program continues to grow at UW
- Student research day
- Newsletter gets new name and format
