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MARCH 21, 2024 • Vol. 21, No. 6
LTU professors awarded grant from NIH to find safer plastics
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Southfield’s Code Enforcement Community Appearance Director Tyrice Beeks poses with the new parking enforcement EVs she designed. Photo by Patrica O’Blenes
SOUTHFIELD PARKING ENFORCEMENT GETS FOUR NEW ELECTRIC VEHICLES BY KATHRYN PENTIUK
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SOUTHFIELD — For the first time in city history, Southfield’s parking enforcement vehicles have been replaced with brand-new vehicles, according to Donovan Fann, the code enforcement supervisor for the city of Southfield.
Fann explained that parking enforcement had previously repurposed old police patrol cars. “The motor pool department would strip all the police material that’s inside. They take everything out because we don’t need anything in vehicles. We just need the transportation and the lights on top for safety purposes.”
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SOUTHFIELD — On Feb. 23, Lawrence Technological University received a $446,867 grant from the National Institutes of Health to create close chemical cousins of bisphenol A (BPA). Shannon Timmons, the chair of the department of natural sciences and an associate professor of chemistry, and Aleksandra Kuzmanov, an assistant professor of biology, will lead the study. BPA has been used to produce sturdy plastics since the 1950s. It is commonly found in everything from eyewear to food packaging to household products. “This is a collaborative toxicology project where we’re investigating this Bisphenol-A. As I’m sure you may have heard of BPA-free products before, a lot of the public has heard of this. We were interested in BPA. It’s a known endocrine disruptor that has effects on human health and probably more effects than just endocrine disruption, but it has negative health effects on humans and the environment, so we are interested in finding a safer alternative.” Timmons said. Kuzmanov explained that BPA messes up human hormones. “Usually, it’s estrogen and testosterone reproductive hormones, so we know that it could affect our reproductive health,” she said. “Recent research shows that it not only messes up our hormones but also affects the quality of our reproductive cells, which means it could contribute to infertility.