Environmental and Health Aspects
NEWS
"Researchers receive $389,303 grant to study effects of tiny industrial particles"
UI News Services
March 4, 2009.
Dr. Vicki Grassian, NNI@UI director has been awarded a $389,303 grant by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Grassian will use the grant to study potential health and environmental effects of nanoparticles.
More details can be found in the press release here.
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The Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute at The University of Iowa (NNI@UI) was established by The University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research in 2006. NNI@UI focuses on issues related to applications and implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology in environmental processes and human health, as well as the fundamental properties of nanomaterials.
The institute includes a core group of faculty and staff from the colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Pharmacy, Medicine and Public Health involved in nanoscience and nanotechnology. NNI@UI provides a venue where researchers from all disciplines of science and engineering can gather to share ideas and discuss their views and prospects of nanoscience, nanoengineering, nanomedicine and nanotechnology.
NNI@UI has partnered with a number of interdisciplinary institutes and centers on campus on a number of cutting edge research areas, including those related to translational medicine and the societal implications of nanoscience and nanotechnology.