Gardenroots highlighted in Edible magazine article entitled: "Reading Roots".
Dr. Sarah Wilkinson spoke in two sessions at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s 14th Community Involvement Training Conference held in Atlanta, GA, August 4-6, 2015. The theme of the conference was “Making a difference in Communities,” and brought together 450 EPA personnel and related stakeholders focused on community engagement. Wilkinson, the Research Translation Core leader for the University of Arizona Superfund Research Program (UA SRP), spoke in two sessions with her colleagues, both under the topic of “The Art of Leveraging Existing Capacity and Resources in Community Involvement.”
Dr. Ramirez-Andreotta spent a Saturday afternoon this April talking about environmental health justice and community gardening at the UA Biosphere II in Oracle, Arizona.
University of Arizona Superfund Research Program (UA SRP) Research Translation Core (RTC) investigator, Dr. Monica Ramirez-Andreotta, has been making waves since returning home to take a faculty position at her alma mater, the University of Arizona, last year. Ramirez-Andreotta is a transdisciplinary environmental health scientist who specializes in the fate and transport of contaminants in plant-soil systems, research translation, and community engagement efforts. Within this last year, she has received a number of city, state, international, and foundation grants to support her burgeoning research program.