Media and Press

Book Launch | September 24, 2025

Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19
Edited by Tatiana Konrad

Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19 (Michigan State University Press, 2025) was successfully launched at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico on September 24, 2025. The event featured presentations by the editor, Tatiana Konrad, and some of the contributors, including Savannah Schaufler. Helen Bond, María Cristina Manzano-Munguía, and Guillermo López Varela, as well as a commentary from MSUP about the “Environment, Health, and Well-being” series that this book is part of.

BEST POSTER AWARD | MONDOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL & METATOX TEAM, UNIVERSITY OF PARIS CITÉ

Savannah Schaufler and Tatiana Konrad’s poster “Plastics, Cultural-Environmental Toxicity, and Air” presented by Savannah Schaufler at the International Summer School “Environment and Planetary Health” (Université Paris Est Créteil & University of Paris Cité) has won the “Best Poster” award. Congratulations to Savannah on the award-winning presentation!

Savannah Schaufler and Tatiana Konrad’s poster “Plastics, Cultural-Environmental Toxicity, and Air”

© Barbara Mair

Environment and Climate Research Award | UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA

Congratulations to Tatiana Konrad on winning the Environment and Climate Research Award 2024! (Environment and Climate Research Hub, University of Vienna)

Tatiana Konrad receiving the Environment and Climate Research Award 2024

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Interview | February 16, 2023

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Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. NIAID 

Logos from left to right: Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World, FWF (Austrian Science Fund), University of Vienna