(Adapted from story from Eddy Hall, NIEHS)
SRP Training Core Co-leader Stacey Harper has received the 2014 Savery Outstanding Young Faculty Award.
The Savery award is presented each year to a faculty member of the OSU College of Agricultural Sciences to recognize outstanding contributions through teaching, research, international, and/or extended education activities. Harper will receive the award, which includes a $1,000 cash prize and a plaque, at a faculty and staff luncheon Oct. 8.
Harper has been an outstanding role model for graduate students. She was brought into the SRP Center as a leader when the Training Core was established in 2013. She has been an assistant professor of nanotoxicology in the Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology (EMT) and the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering since 2009. Prior to joining the faculty at OSU, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Environmental Health Sciences Center, where she was mentored by Robert Tanguay, Ph.D (SRP Project 3 Leader and Center Research Coordinator).
Harper takes an integrative approach to studying the environmental, health, and safety impacts of nanotechnology. Her lab uses rapid assays to determine the toxic potential of nanomaterials, investigative tools to evaluate nanomaterial physiochemical properties, and informatics to identify the specific features of a nanomaterial that govern its environmental behavior and biological interactions.
In addition to her most recent honor, Harper was the 2012 recipient of the L.L. Stewart Faculty Scholars Award, which recognizes an outstanding faculty member at OSU with $30,000 in additional research support. Harper also received an Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in 2011.
Earlier this summer, Harper received an NSF grant for nanomaterials research that begin next week.
Read more about Stacey Harper on her spotlight: Nanotechnology’s Gatekeeper within the Environmental Health Sciences Center web site.
