News

Press Releases:

UAlbany's Thomas Birkland Appointed to Head National Science Foundation Hazard Response Program. 3/13/06

UAlbany's Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities Launches Arbor Hill Community Immersion Project. 2/24/06

Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc. and UAlbany's Center for Functional Genomics Sign Strategic Alliance Agreement. 2/22/06

Benefits of Eating Farmed Salmon Called into Question in New Study. 11/22/05

UAlbany Opens New Cancer Research Center. 10/08/05

UAlbany Scientists Link Hazardous Wastes to Heart Disease. 6/7/05

UAlbany Establishes the Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities. 5/26/05

UAlbany's Center for Policy Research to Lead Study of Impacts of the Tsunami on Southern Thailand. 3/15/05

PCBs and Lead Impact Onset of Puberty in Akwesasne Mohawk Girls. 2/1/05

First Global Study Reveals Health Risks of Widely Eaten Farm Raised Salmon. 1/9/04

Other News:

First Global Sampling Sudy Reveals Health Risks Associated with Consuming Farm Raised Salmon.

PCBs in Crystal Springs, Mississippi (as of 6/25/05)

Recent Publications:

Goncharov A, Haase RF, Santiago-Rivera A, Morse G, Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment, McCaffrey RJ, Rej R, Carpenter DO. High serum PCBs are associated with elevation of serum lipids and cardiovascular disease in a Native American population. Environmental Research, 2007, accepted. (Includes supplemental material).

Brophy MO , Graney J. Groundwater effects from highway tire shred use. Environmental Forensics 5:79-84, 2004.

Brophy MO , Brink R. Initial risk-based screening of potential brownfield development sites. Presented at the 21st Annual Intervational Conference on Soils, Sediments and Water. October 2005.

Carpenter DO, DeCaprio AP , O'Hehir D, Akhtar F, Johnson G , Scrudato RJ , Apatiki L, Kava J, Gologergen J, Miller PK, Eckstein L. Polychlorinated biphenyls in serum of the Siberian Yupik people from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Int. J. Circumpolar Health , 64:322-335, 2005.

Close B, Zurbenko I. Detection of Break Points in a Time Series with Nonparametric Trends, Proceedings of 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields , 2005, pp.156-165.

DeCaprio AP , Johnson GW , Tarbell AM, Carpenter DO , Chiarenzelli JR, Morse GS, Santiago-Rivera AL , Schymura MJ, Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment. PCB exposure assessment by multivariate statistical analysis of serum congener profiles in an adult Native American population. Environ. Res. , 98:284-302, 2005.

Denham M, Schell LM , Deane G, Gallo MV, Ravenscroft J, DeCaprio AP , Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment. Relationship of lead, mercury, mirex, DDE, HCB, and PCBs to age at menarche among Akwesasne Mohawk girls. Pediatrics. 115(2): e127-e134.

Foran JA , Carpenter DO , Hamilton MC, Knuth BA, Schwager SJ. Risk-based consumption advice for farmed Atlantic and wild Pacific salmon contaminated with dioxins and dioxin-like compounds. Environ. Health Perspect. 113:552-556, 2005.

Gallo MV, Schell LM , Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment. Height, weight and body mass index among Akwesasne Mohawk youth. American Journal of Human Biology 17(3):269-279.

Hitchcock JH, Nastasi BK, Dai DY, Newman J , Jayasena A, Bernstein-Moore R, Sarkar S, Vargas K. (In press). Identifying a mixed-method approach for identifying and validating culturally specific constructs. Journal of School Psychology.

Huang X, Hites RA, Foran JA, Hamilton C, Knuth BA, Schwager SJ, Carpenter DO. Consumption advisories for salmon based on risk of cancer and non-cancer health effects. Environ. Res., 101:263-274, 2006.

Neagu B, Neagu ER, Strominger NL, Carpenter DO . A new fast electro-physiological response measured extracellularly in a mouse hippocampal brain slice. Neurosci. Letts. , 381:179-184, 2005.

Neagu B, Strominger NL, Carpenter DO . Use of biopolar parallel electrodes for well-controlled microstimulation in a mouse hippocampal brain slice. J. Neurosci. Meth. , 144:153-163, 2005.

Olsen D, Zurbenko I . Risk Assessment of Long Term Participation in TANF Program. Proceedings of 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields , 2005, pp. 777-790.

Schell L , Knutson K. Environmental Factors. In: Physiological and Pathological Auxology . I. Nicoletti, G. Gilli and L. Benso (eds), Firenze , Italy : Edizioni Centro Studi Auxologici. Pp. 567-580.

Schell LM , Denham M, Stark AD, Ravenscroft J, Parsons P, Schulte E. Relationship between blood lead and dietary intakes of infants from 3 to 12 months of age. Environmental Research 96(3): 264-273.

Schell LM , Gallo MV, DeCaprio A , Hubicki L, Denham M, Ravenscroft J, Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment. Thyroid function in relation to burden of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB's), p,p'-DDE, HCB, Mirex, and Lead among Akwesasne Mohawk youth: A preliminary study. Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology 18: 91-99.

Schell LM , Hills E. Urban pollution, disease and the health of children.. In, The Changing Face of Disease: Implications for Society . N. Mascie-Taylor , J. Peters and S.T. McGarvey (eds), Boca Raton , FL : CRC Press. Pp. 85-103.

Schcherbatykh I, Huang X, Lessner L, Carpenter DO. Hazardous waste sites and stroke in New York State. Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source, 4:18, available from http://www.ehjournal.net/content/4/1/18

Sergeev AV, Carpenter DO . Hospitalization rates for coronary heart disease in relation to residence near areas contaminated with POPs and other pollutants. Environ. Health Perspect. , 113:756-761, 2005.

Shaw SD, Bourakovsky A, Brenner D, Carpenter DO , Tao L, Kannan K, Hong C-S. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in farmed salmon from Maine and Eastern Canada . In: Proceedings of 25th International Symposium on Halogenated Environmental Organic Pollutants and POPs (DIOXIN 2005) , August 21-26, 2005 , Toronto , Canada , in press.

Shiqun L, Zurbenko I. Probabilistic Linkage with Applications to Public Health Research, Proceedings of 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields, 2005, pp.466- 467.