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Supporting high quality research by the nation's leading scientists and engineers to improve EPA's scientific basis for decisions on national environmental issues. EPA supports leading edge extramural research in exposure, effects, risk assessment, and risk management through competitions for STAR grants, fellowships, and research contracts under the Small Business Innovative Research Program.
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New Grant Competition Opens: Anthropogenic Influences on Organic Aerosol Formation and Regional Climate Implications
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing work to use measurements to improve understanding of the formation of organic compounds from a mixture of anthropogenic and biogenic emissions and their climatically relevant properties. CFDA: 66.509
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Child on Scale STAR Researchers Find Phthalate Exposure Related to Obesity
Mt Sinai researchers have published a paper in the journal Environmental Research called Associations between phthalate metabolite urinary concentrations and body size measures in New York City children.
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Research Grants Awarded to Assist Small Public Water Systems
EPA has awarded $4M in STAR research grants to strengthen public health protection from contaminants in drinking water.  This research will assist small Public Water Systems in meeting the treatment and management challenges of multiple and competing drinking water regulations by identifying affordable innovative technologies and approaches..
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Dr Zhu EPA STAR Researchers Receive 2011 Hagaan Smit Prize from Elsevier for Paper on Particulate Concentrations Near Highways
Y. F. Zhu, W. C. Hinds, S. Kim, S. Shen and C. Sioutas, authors of “Study of ultrafine particles near a major highway with heavy-duty diesel traffic”. Atmos. Environ., 36, 4323-4335, 2002, have received the 2011 Haagen-Smit Prize from Elsevier.
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John Fronines John Froines Continues EPA STAR’s Rich Tradition of State Recognition as the Sixth EPA STAR Researcher to Receive the Prestigious Haagen Smit Award
The California Air Resources Board  (ARB) recognizes three individuals each year with the Haagen Smit award for their achievements in policy, research, technology development of breakthrough technologies through a lifelong commitment to protecting California’s environment and public health by improving air quality.
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Centers for Sustainable Molecular Design
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications for an interdisciplinary center focusing on the sustainable molecular design of chemicals.
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Centers for Material Life Cycle Safety
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications for an interdisciplinary center focused on the application of a life cycle perspective towards the development of materials.
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