Join the Green Team Employee Resource Group from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 16, as it hosts an educational webinar on air quality and its effects on human health.
Register for the webinar here.
The webinar features Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission representatives Brandi Whetstone, sustainability officier, and Mauro Diaz-Hernandez, air quality and sustainability coordinator, and Hannah Lovins, a fourth-year PhD candidate in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at The Ohio State University.
Whetstone and Diaz-Hernandez will detail how MORPC is planning and working on air quality issues throughout our region.
Lovins will discuss her research, including…
– the different types of air pollution we encounter
– the health effects associated with short- and long-term exposure
– the respiratory system
– how we study the effects of air pollution
– ozone exposure and particulate matter and their effects on lung immune response
– how dietary interventions can protect us from lung inflammation
Lovins is seeking her PhD in the lab of Kymberly Gowdy, MS, PhD, and her research interests reside in pulmonary immunology, nutrition and lipid metabolism. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2020.
Not part of the Green Team yet? You can join here: go.osu.edu/greenteamsignup
