Michael Dourson, PhD, professor in the Department of Environmental Health, has been elected as president of the Toxicology Education Foundation. The foundation’s mission is to enhance public understanding of toxicology through access to objective, science-based information on the safety of chemicals and other agents encountered in daily life.

Additionally, Dourson has been reappointed as a member of the Joint Meeting of the Pesticide Residue committee of the World Health Organization and Food and Agricultural Organization. He will attend a meeting of this committee in Rome, Italy from Sept. 12-23, 2016.