Rosenblith New Investigator Award

 

This award is named for Professor Walter A. Rosenblith (1913-2002), who served as the first Chair of HEI's Research Committee (from 1980 to 1989) and as a member of the HEI Board of Directors from 1990 to 1996. Professor Rosenblith's vision of science and standard of excellence enabled HEI to quickly develop a strong scientific program. At his urging, HEI developed a program that not only funds research that would contribute needed scientific information for regulation but also research to strengthen the fundamental science related to environmental issues. Professor Rosenblith supported activities intended to attract people engaged in more basic scientific research so that they might bring new tools and new ideas to environmental questions.   

 

 

HEI expects to provide one or more awards from this RFA each year, depending on available funding and the number and quality of applications. The evaluation process considers the qualifications and background of the applicant, the quality and relevance of the research proposal, and the research environment of the applicant. Please contact Dr. Dan Crouse if you have questions. 

 

The RFA for this award is posted in November/December of each year. Please see our current funding opportunities for details.

 

2023. Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, What's in the air? Engaging Native American youth in the Northern Plains to reduce air pollution

2023. Rachel Nethery, Harvard University, USA, Designing optimal policies for reducing air pollution-related health inequities

2021. Lucas Henneman, George Mason University, USA, Air pollution source impacts at fine scales for long-term regulatory accountability and environmental justice

2020. Raphael Arku, University of Massachusetts–Amherst, USA, Urban air pollution in sub-Saharan Africa: A study of prenatal exposures, birth outcomes, and lower-respiratory infections in infants

2020. Joseph Antonelli, University of Florida, USA, Robust statistical approaches to understanding the causal effect of air pollution mixtures

2020. Heresh Amini, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, USA, COUPH: Copenhagen Ultrafine Particles and Health

2019. Tanya Alderete, University of Colorado–Boulder, USA, Air pollutants and the gut microbiota and metabolome during early life: Implications for childhood obesity

2019. Megan Herting, University of Southern California, USA, Air pollution exposure and prefrontal connectivity in early adolescence.

2018. Manabu Shiraiwa, University of California–Irvine, USA, Formation of reactive oxygen species by organic aerosols and transition metals in epithelial lining fluid

2017. Marie Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Impact of exposure to air pollution on asthma; A multi-exposure assessment

2017. Joshua Apte, University of Texas–Austin, USA, Scalable multipollutant exposure assessment using routine mobile monitoring platforms

2016. Monica Guxens, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Spain, Autism spectrum disorders, and brain imaging amongst CHildren in Europe – the APACHE project

2015. Kymberly Gowdy, East Carolina University, USA, Scavenger receptor B1 regulates oxidized lipid driven pulmonary and vascular inflammation after ozone exposure

2014. Lydia Contreras, University of Texas—Austin, USA, Understanding the impact of air quality on the changing chemistry of Regulatory Nucleic Acids

2013. Nga Lee (Sally) Ng, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, Composition and oxidative properties of particulate matter mixtures: Effects of particle phase state, acidity, and transition metals

2012. Jason Surratt, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, USA, Understanding the health effects of isoprene-derived particulate matter enhanced by anthropogenic pollutants

2011. Juana Maria Delgado-Saborit, University of Birmingham, UK, England, Use of real-time sensors to assess misclassification and to identify main sources contribution to peak and chronic exposures

2011. Richard Peltier, University of Massachusetts—Amherst, USA, Development of a new method for measurement of reactive oxygen species associated with PM_2.5 exposure

2010. Jun Wu, University of California—Irvine, USA, Adverse reproductive health outcomes and exposures to gaseous and particulate matter air pollution in pregnant women

2008. Thomas Barker, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, Extracellular matrix stiffness associated with pulmonary fibrosis sensitizes alveolar epithelial cells

2008. Jiu-Chiuan Chen, University of Southern California, USA, Particulate air pollutants, risk of cognitive disorders, and neuropathology in the elderly

2007. Yifang Zhu, Texas A&M University—Kingsville, USA, Assessing children's exposure to ultrafine particles from vehicular emissions

2007. Charles Stanier, University of Iowa, USA, Development and application of a personal exposure screening model for size-resolved urban aerosols

2006. Christopher Paciorek, Harvard University, USA, Integrating monitoring and satellite data to retrospectively estimate monthly PM_2.5 concentrations in the eastern United States

2006. Qunwei Zhang, University of Louisville, USA, Activation of endothelial cells and gene expression in lungs following exposure to ultrafine particles

2005. Timothy Nurkiewicz, West Virginia University, USA, Pulmonary particulate matter exposure and systemic microvascular function

2005. Jonathan Levy, Harvard University, USA, Using geographic information systems to evaluate heterogeneity in indoor and outdoor concentrations of particle constituents

2004. Michelle Bell, Yale University, USA, Assessment of the mortality effects of particulate matter characteristics

2004. Michaela Kendall, Uludag University, Turkey, Molecular adsorption at PM surfaces: a compelling PM toxicity mediation mechanism

2003. Michael Borchers, University of Cincinnati, USA, T cell subpopulations regulate airway inflammation and injury following acrolein exposures

2002. James Schauer, University of Wisconsin, USA, Source apportionment and speciation of particulate matter to support exposure and health studies

2001. Quanxin Meng, Battelle Toxicology Northwest, USA, Mutagenicity of stereochemical configurations of 1,3-butadiene epoxy metabolites in human cells

1999. Francesca Dominici, Johns Hopkins University, USA, Air pollution and daily mortality in a national sampling frame