Around Town 4/30/26: Local News, Culture and Events

About this episode

The episode features an update from the Shaw Institute on their research connecting environmental and human health.

Host/Producer: Amy Browne Charles Rolsky, Ph.D, Executive Director & Senior Research Scientist, joins us with an update from the Shaw Institute, a Blue Hill based nonprofit scientific research organization founded in 1990, that “focuses on researching and better understanding the connection between environmental and human health” Their work was recently featured in this article (which links to the study) Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License The post Around Town 4/30/26: Local News, Culture and Events first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives .

People in this episode

Host: Amy Browne

Guest: Charles Rolsky, Ph.D

Topics covered

• local news
• culture
• environmental health
• human health
• scientific research
• community events

Keywords

• local news
• Shaw Institute
• environmental health
• human health
• Blue Hill
• scientific research
• community events

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Shaw Institute

Books & works: BreakBeat Chemists I

Places: Blue Hill

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