The Iowa Superfund Research Program, the Boston University Superfund Program (BUSRP), and three community groups formed a partnership of five project leaders to measure the amount of airborne PCBs in the New Bedford Harbor area.

Iowa Superfund Research Program Project 5 Leader Dr. Jerry Schnoor was honored at the American Chemical Society Annual Meeting in Orlando on April 2nd and April 3rd. Jerry was honored as having had a profound impact on the field, through leadership in environmental chemistry and modeling, shaping policy, and impacting our educational approaches to our most pressing environmental and health challenges.

ISRP investigators and trainees presented posters at the Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting and ToxEpo in Baltimore, Maryland, in March 2017.

The Indiana Department of Environmental Management and the EPA sought comments this spring on the dredging of the Indiana Harbor Shipping Canal (IHSC). The United States Army Corps of Engineers(USACE) has overseen the removal of more than 1 million cubic yards of sediment as part of the IHSC dredging project that started in 2012. Dr. Kerri Hornbuckle and Dr. Andres Martinez commented on the request for approval of PCB alternative disposals.

Dr. Rachel Marek from Project 4 gave a guest lecture on April 27, 2017, at the Milwaukee School of Engineering in Prof. Anne Alexander's Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry class, an elective of 24 juniors and seniors. She introduced students to PCBs and why we are concerned about their presence in schools.

Several ISRP faculty and trainees received awards at the Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting and ToxExpo.

Seventh graders from the Columbus Junction High School in Iowa visited the Iowa Superfund Research Program at the University of Iowa for a 1 day field trip. The 46 students rotated in groups through five research stations where they observed and even had some hands-on experience in PCB analysis and retention, microscopy and animal exposure by aerosol inhalation.

Researchers from three Superfund Research Programs (SRPs) argued for continued funding for the programs in an op-ed piece in The Hill on March 14, 2017.

Dr. Garry Buettner, Co-Leader of Project 1 of the Iowa Superfund Research Program, published a report in the December 2016 edition of Redox Biology that demonstrated that high doses of Vitamin C given intravenously are much more effective in killing cancer cells than oral medications of Vitamin C.

Researchers from the University of Iowa Superfund Research Program and the Boston University Research Program published a report demonstrating that release of PCBs from New Bedford Harbor contribute to elevated concentrations in the surrounding air.