Indiana University O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs Associate Professor Shahzeen Attari will serve on an ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine that will identify emerging scientific and technological advances from a broad range of disciplines. Those advances will be provided to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office… Read more »
Research
Shahzeen Attari to moderate panel with Nobel Laureate, acclaimed screenwriter, and world-renowned Sci-Fi author
The worlds of Wakanda, Mars, and Green Fluorescent Proteins will converge on Wednesday, March 31, and the O’Neill School’s Shahzeen Attari will be there front-and-center. Attari will moderate “The Power of Stories: Writing the Future of Our Planet,” a prelude to the inaugural Nobel Prize Summit in April. The event will bring together three distinguished… Read more »
Salamova awarded USDA grant to study toxic chemicals in food packaging
The Agriculture and Food Research Initiative of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture recently awarded a grant worth $479,712 to a team of researchers including Amina Salamova, associate research scientist at the O’Neill School, to study toxic chemicals in food packaging. The project, “Mapping Potential Human Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)… Read more »
What has happened since the start of the COVID-19 crisis to opioid use disorder medication and to medications in general?
Americans filled roughly the same number of prescriptions for opioid use disorder (OUD) medication before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and after, according to the first research using national prescription data representing all payer sources, co-conducted by Indiana University and IUPUI faculty members who are part of IU’s Addictions Grand Challenge. But while prescriptions… Read more »