Meghan Davis, DVM, MPH received the Morris Animal Foundation pilot grant for her project, “Pets and Environmental Transmission of MRSA  in Households.” She will be looking at companion animal and household environment risk factors for colonization or contamination with MRSA given exposure to a human outpatient with a MRSA soft tissue infection. Meghan’s work is in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania Schools of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine and the Penn State Hershey Medical Center.

J. Brian Harmon, ScM, PhD candidate, completed a summer internship working in the National Security Technology Department at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) on a research project designed to identify sources of water-borne chemical/biological pollutants. Brian is supported by the PACER-STEM training grant funded by the Department of Homeland Security.

Lauren Pollack, former undergraduate intern of the Geyh laboratory, won Honorable Mention for her poster titled “Impact of Manganese (Mn) Exposure on Cognitive Function in a Murine Model” during the student poster competition at the International Society of Exposure Science (ISES) General Meeting. Lauren’s honorable mention certificate is in recognition of outstanding research conducted by a student in the area of Human Exposure Science.

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