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Faculty Needed Immediately
Anatomic Pathology Research Fellowship
Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Orient Point, NY Project
Project Description: The USDA- Foreign Animal Disease Research Unit (FADRU) is located at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) in Orient Point, New York. Plum Island is located off the eastern tip of Long Island. Incumbent will carry out all aspects of the pathology-based effort including proposed study design/development, in vivo experiments in cattle, necropsies, tissue collection, immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, and reporting of findings. Work will be done under the supervision of a DACVP-certified pathologist. See project PIADC 2009-01USDA.
Faculty and/or Postgraduate Research Participation Program
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
National Center for Environmental Assessment
Arlington, Virginia
Project Description: A research project training opportunity for faculty and/or postgraduates is currently available at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Center for Environmental Assessment – Washington Division (NCEA-W) in Arlington, Virginia. The participant will have the opportunity to participate with EPA scientists working in teams on cross-cutting scientific issues, particularly mode of action of environmental agents in health risk assessments. The principal focus will be on evaluating and interpreting mutagenicity and genotoxicity data related to environmental exposures. Applicants must be either public or private university faculty members or have received a postdoctoral degree within five years of the desired starting date. See Project EPA-NCEA 2008-07.
Faculty Research Opportunity
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
National Risk Management Research Laboratory
Cincinnati, Ohio
Project Description: A faculty research project is available at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL). The appointment will be served in the Sustainable Technology Division (STD) in Cincinnati, Ohio. The project involves the development and modification of software to realistically simulate the permeation of the solvent and solutes of a fermentation broth through zeolite-silicone rubber mixed matrix membranes under pervaporation. Applicants should be a faculty member of a college or university, have a strong background in the polymer sciences and membrane technologies, and formal experience running High Performance Computer simulations of liquids passing through membrane barriers. See project NRMRL/STD-2008-01.
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