2026
Tri Huynh “Coexisting with toxic legacies: Assessing soil metal levels, sources, and health risks associated with living amid contamination within a Superfund site”
2025
Subin Han “Characterization of particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) including bioaerosols in a swine farrowing room.”
Honorable Mention
Chloe Chou, Meredith Scherer
2024
Luiz de Aguiar Marciano, “Risk Assessment of Exposure to Triazole Fungicides by Human Biomonitoring and Mechanistic Data.”
2023
Haoduo Zhao, “Toward Human Exposome: Nontargeted Large-Scale Pesticide Screening in Human Adult and Baby Urine with High-Resolution Accurate Mass Spectrometry.”
2022
Claire Hamaji, “A Risk Assessment of Inorganic Mercury Renal Toxicity from Application of Skin Lightening Products from Multiple Countries: An Update.”
2021
Dingshing Li, "Evaluating Consumer Exposure to Disinfecting Chemicals against Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Associated Health Risks.”
Honorable Mention
Rocky Goldsmith, Miyuki Breen
2020
Myriam Cifuentes and Darryl Hood, "Big Data to Knowledge Analytics Reveals the Zika Virus Epidemic as Only One of Multiple Factors Contributing to a Year-over-Year 28-Fold Increase in Microcephaly Incidence."
2019
Sarah Faure
2026
Puneet Vij et al. “A physiologically based kinetic model for quantifying human exposure to DEET.” International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health
2025
Nancy Hopf et al. “Introducing the OECD guidance document on occupational biomonitoring: A harmonized methodology for deriving occupational biomonitoring levels (OBL).” Toxicology Letters
Runner up
Eva Vitucci et al. “The application of PTR-MS and non-targeted analysis to characterize VOCs emitted from a plastic recycling facility fire.” J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol.
2024
Xiaojia He, “Low-dose Vanadium Pentoxide Perturbed Lung Metabolism Associated with Inflammation and Fibrosis Signaling in Male Animal and In Vitro Models” American Journal of Physiology–Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology.
2023
Pawel Lorkiewicz, “Electronic Cigarette Solvents, JUUL E-Liquids, and Biomarkers of Exposure: In Vivo Evidence for Acrolein and Glycidol in E-Cig-Derived Aerosols,” American Chemical Society.
2022
Zachary Stanfield, “Mining of Consumer Product Ingredient and Purchasing Data to Identify Potential Chemical Coexposures,” Environmental Health Perspectives.
2021
Katie Paul-Friedman, “Utility of In Vitro Bioactivity as a Lower Bound Estimate of In Vivo Adverse Effect Levels and in Risk-Based Prioritization,” Toxicological Sciences.
2020
David E. Hines, Rory B. Conolly, and Annie M. Jarabek, "A Quantitative Source-to-Outcome Case Study to Demonstrate the Integration of Human Health and Ecological End Points Using the Aggregate Exposure Pathway and Adverse Outcome Pathway Framework," Environ. Sci. Technol.
2026
Student Award winner: Kaylyn Dinh, Texas A&M University
2025
Student Award winner: Jung Hyun Lee, Purdue University
2024
Student Award winner: Chang Geun Lee, Purdue University.
2026
Postdoctoral Award winner: Yongcheng Li, University of Nevada, Reno
2025
Postdoctoral Award winner: Isha Mhatre-Winters, University of Georgia
2024
Postdoctoral Award winner: Elise Hickman, University of North Carolina.