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Arnold School success stories abound!
October 31, 2014
The research of Dr. Ratanesh Seth, a post-doctoral fellow working with Dr. Saurabh Chatterjee, has recognized by the Society of Toxicology.
ENHS researcher receives prestigious award from
Society of Toxicology
Dr. Ratanesh Kumar Seth, a post-doctoral fellow in the Arnold School’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences, has been honored by the Society of Toxicology in the annual SOT Board of Publications Best Paper competition.
The membership and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Toxicological Sciences nominate papers published in the journal the previous year for consideration for awards. More than 140 papers were published between 2013 and 2014 in Toxicological Sciences.
Seth’s manuscript, “Environmental Toxin-Linked Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis and Hepatic Metabolic Reprogramming in Obese Mice,” has been selected for “Honorable Mention” in the competition. The SOT names a Best Paper winner and three Honorable Mention recipients.
Posters announcing the Honorable Mention papers will be displayed at the 2015 SOT Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif., from March 22 – 26.
Seth works with Dr. Saurabh Chatterjee, director of the Environmental Health and Disease Laboratory at the Arnold School of Public Health. Chatterjee and Dr. Suvarthi Das also were authors on the paper, which included researchers from the Free Radical Metabolism Group, Laboratory of Toxicology and Pharmacology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina and the Division of Gastroenterology at Duke University.
Toxicological Sciences publishes the most influential research in the field of toxicology. The primary focus is on original and hypothesis-driven research articles, as well as timely reviews, forum articles and editorials that address important topics in the field.
ENHS study in Environmental Science & Technology
Dr. Tom Chandler, dean of the Arnold School of Public Health, is the lead author on a paper published this month in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
The article, “Sediment Nickel Bioavailability and Toxicity to Estuarine Crustaceans of Contrasting Bioturbative Behaviors – An Evaluation of the SEM-AVS Paradigm,” featured Arnold School researchers Katherine M. Washburn and Emily R. Stewart.
Researchers from the Nickel Producers Environmental Research Association in Durham, N.C., and USC’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry also are among the study’s authors.
Environmental Science & Technology is ranked No. 1 in total citations in the Environmental Engineering and Environmental Sciences categories and has a high Impact Factor of 5.481, as reported by the 2013 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2014).
Student and faculty achievements
The Obesity Society elected doctoral student Danielle Schoffman, who recently completed a two-year term as president of USC’s Graduate Student Association, as the eHealth/mHealth section trainee. Dr. Brie Turner-McGrievy of HPEB, who is nationally recognized for her research on the use of technology to help people lose weight and be more physically active, was elected chair of the eHealth/mHealth section for The Obesity Society. Turner-McGrievy also received the Komen Junior Faculty Travel Award for The Obesity Society’s “Obesity and Cancer Section.”
The National Science Foundation awarded Sarah Hales, a doctoral student, a travel grant to present her work at the Wireless Health 2014 Conference.
Doctoral student Ann Blair Kennedy, doctoral student, was recognized by the American Massage Therapy Association, with an award for her outstanding achievements and dedicated volunteer service to AMTA.
Dr. Daniela Friedman is one of 26 faculty members across campus invited to participate in the pilot year of USC's new Pipeline for Academic Leaders (PAL) program.
Dr. Susan Steck was an invited speaker at the recent Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo in Atlanta. Her talk, titled “The Dietary Inflammatory Index,” was part of the session, “Cancer and Inflammation: Dietary Targets to Reduce Risk.” The conference and expo are part of the annual meeting of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Doctoral student Tracey Thomas attended the recent meeting of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation's 2014 Leaders’ Summit in Washington, D.C., where 250 schools across the nation were honored for creating healthier environments for their students and staff. Thomas works as the Alliance's Healthy Schools Program Manager for the state of Kentucky.
Christopher Peter Aluah, HPEB DrPH student, will host an Institute for African-American Research seminar March 18, 2015, titled “Stigmatizing the Wise: Perceptions and Experiences of Courtesy Stigma Among African American HIV Care Providers in One County in South Carolina.”
