SWEHSC News

Rick G. Schnellmann, PhD, was named the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System’s Investigator of the Year 2024.

SWEHSC had the opportunity to help plan the 2025 Tribal Environmental Health Forum, helping professionals, researchers, and communities unite to help tackle the needs of Arizona's Tribal communities.

Six teams of University of Arizona experts who presented proposals to accelerate transdisciplinary projects with the potential to transform lives, shape policy, drive economic impact and provide training for the next generation of talent have been chosen as the 2025 Big Idea Challenge awardees.

A report released on Thursday by the presidential Make America Healthy Again commission raised concerns about the potential health effects of pesticides on American children, but it stopped short of calling the chemicals unsafe.

The mix of chemicals in the atmosphere, and hotter and longer days during the summer, lead to more air quality alerts.

A new study published by the University of Arizona scientists found that firefighters aren’t the only frontline workers exposed to PFAS. Health care workers also had elevated levels of two specific chemicals in their blood.

Professor Kacey Ernst is passionate about studying the intersection between disease and climate change.

The University is honoring 27 faculty members with Distinguished Faculty Awards in recognition of their service to students, colleagues, communities, and the university's mission and land-grant values.

Burgess studies how to reduce exposure and prevent injuries among firefighters and miners and leads part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency-funded Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study

Rick G. Schnellmann, PhD, dean of the University of Arizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy and the Howard J. Schaeffer Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences, received the Career Achievement Award from the Mechanisms Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology.