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- UofL Taps Former City Leader Ted Smith for Environment Post
- Former Chief of Civic Innovation to Lead UofL Center
- University of Louisville lands first major gift under new president
- University of Louisville launches the Envirome Institute with $5M gift
- UofL Renames Environment Institute To Focus More On Environmental Health
- UofL’s Kentucky Institute for the Environment and Sustainable Development to be renamed the Envirome Institute
- 5 Reasons Your Health System Should Consider an Asthma Population Health Initiative
- Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar’s Podcast Interview on E-Cigs and Depression
- Dr. Aruni Bhatnagar discusses e-cigs and depression, in addition to the results of a recent study in this podcast interview.
- Better interior design might keep astronauts healthier and happier in deep space
- Unfortunately, there isn’t a ton of research out there to guide engineers on the best spacecraft design for keeping astronauts in good spirits. That’s because conducting research on isolation can be tough to pull off. “These are difficult experiments to do ethically anywhere in the world, really,” Ted Smith, director of the Center for Healthy Air, Water and Soil at the University of Louisville, tells The Verge. “There’s really a lot more that we don’t know than we do know about how the social psychology and the personal individual psychology degrades when circumstances degrade.”
- Institute Creates Louisville Data Commons for Community Health
- An important mission of the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute at the University of Louisville is to encourage citizens to participate in research to understand and improve the health of our community. A new online data resource hosted by the Envirome Institute will allow citizen scientists and researchers to access and contribute to public knowledge about the health of the air, water and soil in Greater Louisville.
- Envirome Institute creates Louisville Data Commons, online repository for health and environment data
- The University of Louisville is making everyday people into scientists and researchers with a newly launched website. Louisville Data Commons, an online resource for individuals and organizations conducting environmental research, has been created by the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute at the University of Louisville.
- Crowdsourced environment data gets a home on Louisville Data Commons
- Academic researchers and city officials in Louisville, Kentucky, are hoping a new open-data repository aimed at tracking public health and environmental data will give residents a better understanding of their city’s air, water and wildlife.
- UofL’s Envirome Institute creates Louisville Data Commons to support community health research
- An important mission of the Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute at the University of Louisville is to encourage citizens to participate in research to understand and improve the health of our community. A new online data resource hosted by the Envirome Institute will allow citizen scientists and researchers to access and contribute to public knowledge about the health of the air, water and soil in Greater Louisville.
- How plans for a trip to Mars brings home our dependence on Earth’s environment
- At a recent workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to discuss health risks associated with a potential manned mission to Mars, it became clear just how vitally we humans depend on our Earth’s environment.
- Smell MyCity app combats air pollution
- Louisville, KY is the site of the national rollout of the Smell MyCity app created at Carnegie Mellon University.
- State’s air quality receives mixed grades for particle and ozone pollution in 2019 ‘State of the Air’ report
- The American Lung Association’s 2019 “State of the Air” report found the Louisville/Bardstown metro region ranked 26th as the most polluted city in the nation for ozone (smog) pollution. The region experienced more high ozone days and retained the ranking it received last year. However, the metro area ranked tied for 30th most polluted for year-round particle levels, a marked improvement from its 21st ranking last year. This is the best-ever ranking for Louisville/Bardstown and the region now meets the national standards. The annual air quality “report card” tracks Americans’ exposure to unhealthful levels of ozone or particle pollution, both of which can be deadly.
- Kentucky Air Quality Receives Mixed Grades for Particle and Ozone Pollution
- The American Lung Association’s 2019 “State of the Air” report found the Louisville/Bardstown metro region ranked 26th as the most polluted city in the nation for ozone (smog) pollution. The region experienced more high ozone days and retained the ranking it received last year.
- Astronauts Anticipating Interior Designed Room in Spacecrafts in the Name of Health
- Today's minimal living trend has placed interior design as a secondary, sometimes even a tertiary, priority. More so, if the space in question is one that will be launched out into outer space.
- Carnegie Mellon’s Pittsburgh smells app goes nationwide, crowdsourcing where the air is worst
- Some Allegheny County residents use a smartphone app to report foul smells in their communities, and a new version of that app is now available to the rest of the country. For three years, people in the Pittsburgh area have documented their experiences with odors with just a few taps of a finger via Smell PGH.
- MIT Space2 workshop: Rethinking design of personal environments in space travel
- A recent MIT workshop focused on optimizing behavioral health and cognitive performance in confined environments found in space travel. Find out how this applies to the modern workplace.
- Commonwealth of Kentucky launches initiative to test healthcare workers for immunity and establish top plasma donor pool
- The Commonwealth of Kentucky, in collaboration with the University of Louisville Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute and the Louisville Healthcare CEO Council, is launching a groundbreaking initiative with three large Kentucky hospital systems – Baptist Health, Norton Healthcare and UofL Health. The purpose is to help health care workers understand whether they were unknowingly exposed to COVID-19, to determine how much immunity was generated by such exposure, and to identify those with the best immune responses as donors of high-quality plasma for rescue treatment of patients with advanced COVID-19.
- Healthy Plants Collection at Nanz & Kraft helps spread cleaner air indoors
- Nanz & Kraft and The U of L Center for Healthy Air Water and Soil want you to have healthy indoor air quality. WDRB’s Keith Kaiser spent the morning learning how house plants can help you breathe better inside.