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Special Announcements

  • NIEHS and EPA are holding an informational webinar on May 21, 2012 about how to apply to the currently open RFA:

    Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers (with NIEHS) - Open: April 5, 2012 - Closing: July 17, 2012

    The Webinar will review the purpose and objectives of the FOA, budget preparation and peer review. All prospective applicants are invited to participate.

  • Notice of Postponement of the May 9, 2012 EPA/NIEHS Children’s Centers 2012 Webinar
    The May 9th webinar has been postponed. We invite you to register for the June 12th webinar: Register Now. Thank you for your interest. We look forward to your continued participation in our upcoming webinars.

  • EPA is canceling the solicitation for Centers for Material Life Cycle Safety. This solicitation is being reviewed and will be reissued when that review is complete. EPA appreciates the interest in this solicitation and apologizes for any inconvenience. Please contact Kelly Widener (widener.kelly@epa.gov) if you have any further questions about this.

  • EPA is canceling the solicitation for Centers for Sustainable Molecular Design. This solicitation is being reviewed and will be reissued when that review is complete. EPA appreciates the interest in this solicitation and apologizes for any inconvenience. Please contact Kelly Widener (widener.kelly@epa.gov) if you have any further questions about this.

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SBIR LogoEPA Awards $2 Million to Small Businesses
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program recently awarded $2 million to 25 companies in support of technology development toward sustainable solutions for the environment. (CFDA: 66.509)
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High School student wins EPA sustainability award
Thabit Pulak, a sophomore at Richardson High School in Richardson, Texas, was named the recipient of EPA’s Patrick Hurd Sustainability Award for his Home-Based Arsenic Bio-Sand Water Filter science fair project. Thabit competed in this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. The award enables the winning student and a chaperone to participate in and display the student's project at EPA's National Sustainable Design Expo featuring the P3: People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Student Design Competition for Sustainability in 2013. (CFDA: 66.509)
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Prenatal Exposure to CPF Possibly Linked to IQ and Memory deficits in Children
The U.S. EPA funded Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Research Center at Columbia University has published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) showing that even moderate prenatal exposure to the insecticide chrlorpyrifos (CPF) may cause long-term changes in brain structure of a child. (CFDA: 66.509)
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EPA SBIR Recipient Bridger Photonics Wins SBA Tibbets Award
Bridger Photonics, recipient of a 2009 Phase 1 and a 2010 Phase 2 research contract under EPA’s Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)  program, won the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Tibbetts Award last week for its innovative work in carbon dioxide emission detection. (CFDA: 66.509)
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EPA Awards More Than $1 Million to College Teams for Innovative Environmental Solutions
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded more than $1 million in grants to 15 university and college teams from across the country who participated in the 8th Annual National Sustainable Design Expo on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. for their innovative environmental solutions. (CFDA: 66.509)
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Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Centers (with NIEHS)
EPA and NIEHS have issued a joint solicitation under their Children's Environmental Health Research program for: (1) the expanded use of epidemiological and clinical data from studies of prospective parents, pregnant women and children; (2)the application of novel findings and approaches in areas of basic or mechanistic research e.g., imaging, epigenetics and comparative biology to developmental human studies; (3) development and use of new or improved biomarkers, environmental measurements (indoors and outdoors) and exposure factors and models to best characterize exposure, potential health effects at various lifestages, and predict longer-term clinical consequences; (4) the training of new investigators to address emerging issues in children's environmental health with state of the art tools and methodologies; and (5) the active participation of identified stakeholders and the broader community in the research process and translation and application of research findings. (CFDA: 66.509)
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Pregnant woman with Personal Air Sampling device Prenatal Exposure to Combustion-Related Pollutants Linked to Symptoms of Anxiety, Depression, and Attention Problems in Young Children
STAR researchers at  Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health have published results which associate prenatal exposure to air pollutants called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) with  behavioral problems in children. (CFDA: 66.509)
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Measurements and Modeling for Quantifying Air Quality and Climatic Impacts of Residential Biomass or Coal Combustion for Cooking, Heating, and Lighting
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing research on quantifying, via field measurements and modeling, the improvements in climate and ambient and indoor air quality, and the subsequent impacts on health and welfare, resulting from ongoing, planned, or potential interventions in cooking, heating, or lighting practices. (CFDA: 66.509)
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