{"id":73892,"date":"2015-10-06T11:27:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T15:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/?p=73892"},"modified":"2020-09-17T10:28:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:28:48","slug":"professor-receives-aaas-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/news\/articles\/2015\/professor-receives-aaas-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Receives AAAS Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar js-block-editorial-metabar sphnews-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">October 6, 2015<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/wendy-heiger-bernays\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sph\/files\/2015\/10\/Wendy-Heiger-Bernays.png\" alt=\"Wendy Heiger-Bernays\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-73893\" height=\"241\" width=\"399\" \/>Wendy Heiger-Bernays<\/a>, associate professor of environmental health and principal investigator of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/about\/departments\/environmental-health\/research\/research-groups-and-centers\/superfund-research-program-at-boston-university\/research-cores\/research-translation-core\/\">BU Superfund Research Program\u2019s Translation Core<\/a>, has been awarded a Science &amp; Technology Policy Fellowship (STPF) from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).<\/p>\n<p>Heiger-Bernays will spend the next year\u00a0in the Office of Science Coordination &amp; Policy at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, DC.\u00a0Through August 2016, she will work on a project using computational toxicological data to identify chemicals that potentially disrupt hormone systems before the chemicals are brought to market.\u00a0<span>Heiger-Bernays\u00a0<\/span>will engage with scientists and policymakers with the ultimate purpose of making better laws and policies based on the science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe opportunity to focus on research translation for the purpose of improving the population\u2019s health is an incredibly exciting opportunity,\u201d Heiger-Bernays says.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the AAAS STPF is to foster scientifically informed, evidence-based policy and practice by involving scientists and engineers. 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