To increase safety for U.S. workers, MEMIC offers $30,000 to researchers at the nation’s institutions of higher learning with a 2023 MEMIC Safety Research Grant. Apply by Oct. 20.

NIOSH will celebrate a notable 20th anniversary this month. On October 19, 1996, a new facility was dedicated on NIOSH’s Morgantown, West Virginia, campus. The facility, often referred to now as the “L” Building, provided NIOSH for the first time with a strategic convergence of specialized equipment and dedicated laboratory space for advanced health-effects research.