The University of Kentucky hosted the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and its Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers (EHSCC) for the EHSCC annual meeting, Oct. 27-30, 2025, for the first time in Lexington, Kentucky.
The meeting’s theme was “Celebrating Environmental Health Science: Over 60 Years of Science, 25 Years of Community Engagement, and 10 Years of Disaster Response Research.”
Event sponsors included UL Research Institutes’ Chemical Insights, NSF/NIH RAPID Facility, UK Office of the Vice President for Research, UK Center for the Environment and UK Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences (UK-CARES).
“It was such a privilege hosting the Environmental Health Science Core Centers in Lexington. We welcomed more than 200 attendees from 25 institutions across the U.S., including affiliates from every NIEHS-funded P30 center,” said Erin Haynes, Dr.P.H., UK-CARES director and professor in the UK College of Public Health Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health. “The meeting gave attendees an opportunity to share scientific advancement and engage community partners in the work we do.”