EPA: Chemical Safety for Sustainability- Environmental Health and Safety of Engineered Nanomaterials (STAR-C2)

The mission of the EPA STAR Fellowship Program is to help ensure that the U.S. meets its current and projected human resource needs in the environmental science, engineering, and policy fields. Thus, the EPA is looking to fund students at the graduate level who are committed to meeting the challenges of today and the next generation by pursuing a career related to protecting human health and the environment. Proposals may come from students in traditional and interdisciplinary academic disciplines; from students studying in emerging fields that will require increased human capacity such as in the social and exposure sciences; from students utilizing multidisciplinary approaches and/or addressing multiple media; and, in areas which focus on environmental justice, environmental education, and/or building decision making capacity. 

Applications in this topic are for interests and investigations on human and environmental health impacts associated with exposures to engineered/manufactured nanomaterials. Proposals in this topic focus on how to characterize engineered/ manufactured nanomaterials-ENMs (including nano-bio and other emerging compounds) in complex biological and environmental media and how to efficiently evaluate and predict potential for risks across the material life cycle associated with use of ENMs in consumer products.

Projects may include, but are not limited to: developing methods to characterize ENMs in biological and environmental matrices, identifying critical intermediate properties of ENM that are predictive of potential risks; and evaluating alternative testing schemes for predicting impacts of ENM as used in real-world conditions.

For more information, visit http://www.epa.gov/ncer/rfa/2015/2015_star_gradfellow.html