In the News

Interviews with Pat Rasmussen

  • Toxicity in Our Environment, CTV News At 6 (19Feb08)
  • Dangerous Dust-Up. Just how toxic are those bunnies under the bed?, The Hamilton Spectator (17Jan08)
  • House dust: toxic and on your table, The Globe and Mail (27Dec07)
  • Metals in house dust, CBC Radio 1, ‘Here’s the Thing’ series (Toronto, 14Jul06)
  • The Dirt on Dirt: Gathering Dust, Maclean’s Magazine (p. 116, 13Nov06)

Achievements

  • Buoyancy-Corrected Gravimetric Analysis System, USA Patent awarded April 2008. (www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2006010243)
  • ICP-MS Lab (Marc Chénier) received top scores in the 2009 National Water Research Institute Accredited Proficiency Testing Program.
  • NSERC Metals in the Human Environment Strategic Network (www.mithe-sn.org) January 2005-2010 Project I(1)  Refined Analysis and Characterization Methods for Metals in Urban Air (Rasmussen PI).