Project Grant R43ES031433

This $3,820,922 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program will establish a Climate Change and Health Center focused on a "community-driven, health-first approach to climate action and the energy transition." The center's key innovations include developing a scenario health risk model for energy policy decision-making, conducting a pilot study on the impacts of climate change...

This $407,453 cooperative agreement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 3 supports the Women For A Healthy Environment in providing capacity building and technical assistance to early learning centers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania under the Protection of Children from Environmental Health Risks federal grant program (CFDA 66.609). Over the two-year period from May 1, 2022 to April 30, 2024, the recipient will educate approximately 200 early learning center personnel and conduct...

This $249,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (CFDA 93.113 - Environmental Health) aims to engage high school students in a youth-led participatory research project focused on establishing clean air environments in schools during wildfire season. The project, titled "Learning and Living with Wildfire Smoke: Creating Clean Air Environments in Schools through Youth Participatory Action Research," will be carried out by the University of...

This Project Grant award, provided by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951), will fund the Children and Teachers Foundation of the Chicago Teachers Union to implement an environmental education program in Chicago, Illinois. The $223,600 award, effective February 1, 2025, will support the design, demonstration, and dissemination of environmental education practices, methods, and techniques to increase environmental...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program provides $419,011 to Emory University to develop innovative dimensionality reduction techniques for assessing the joint health effects of air pollution mixtures. The research aims to advance causal modeling approaches that preserve the relationships between air pollutants and health outcomes, in order to provide more accurate assessments of the public...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides $136,629 to New York Sun Works Inc. to implement an environmental education program in New York City. The project will design, demonstrate, and disseminate climate and environmental education practices, methods, and techniques that will serve to increase environmental literacy and encourage pro-environmental behaviors in over 1,600 K-8th grade students...

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $558,380 Project Grant under the Environmental Health federal grant program (CFDA 93.113) to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) to develop the GEOSPACE Geospatial Knowledgebase for Exposomics. This four-year project, starting February 1, 2025, aims to create an integrated biomedical knowledgebase and geospatial data science ecosystem to facilitate robust exposomic studies. The key products include: A...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides $133,333 in funding to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL to design, demonstrate, and disseminate environmental education practices, methods, and techniques that will increase environmental literacy and encourage environmentally-beneficial behaviors in the Calumet region. Key activities include restoring green spaces with climate...

This Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Marine Sanctuary Program (CFDA 11.429) provides $199,907 to the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative in Lowell, Michigan. The project, titled "Advancing K-12 Environmental Literacy through Place-Based Stewardship Education (PBSE) in Michigan and the Great Lakes Region", aims to build capacity for increased statewide environmental literacy through PBSE and climate change education. The key...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Education Grants Program (CFDA 66.951) provides $138,433 to Rowan University to implement an environmental education project in Camden and Glassboro, New Jersey. The project aims to increase environmental literacy and promote environmentally-beneficial behaviors by creating educational modules, collecting and analyzing air quality data, mapping environmental projects, and developing community...