Community members, university officials, activists, and clergy gathered recently to mark the 40^th anniversary of the protests that launched the environmental justice movement. The nonviolent Warren County protests fought against the state's disposal of soil contaminated with PCBs in the predominantly Black community.

The new CTS Pilot Program will support investigation focused on developing, demonstrating, and disseminating scientific and operational innovations that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of clinical translation from identification to first-in-human studies to medical practice implementation to community health dissemination.

The national GRADE study, with leadership from John Buse, MD, PhD, and Sue Kirkman, MD, found that two of four common type 2 diabetes treatments — glargine and liraglutide — worked better than the other drugs, sitagliptin and glimepiride, to maintain blood glucose levels.

Wubin Bai (Assistant Professor, Applied Physical Sciences) was awarded a $5-50K Translational Research Matched Pilot Grant for his project, Non-invasive optoelectronic systems for diabetes health monitoring at the skin interface which utilizes the technology discussed in this article from The Well.