{"id":1428,"date":"2020-09-10T16:09:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T20:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:05:01","slug":"biochemistry-professor-amy-rand-focuses-research-on-pollutants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2020\/biochemistry-professor-amy-rand-focuses-research-on-pollutants\/","title":{"rendered":"Biochemistry Professor Amy Rand Focuses Research on Pollutants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Biochemistry Professor Amy Rand Focuses Research on Pollutants\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Biochemistry Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/people\/amy-rand\/\">Amy Rand<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arandlab.com\/\">Rand lab <\/a>, combines environmental chemistry\u2014the study of how chemicals move through and interact with our environment, whether outside or inside our homes\u2014with toxicology. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/people\/amy-rand\/\">Proffesor Rand&#8217;s<\/a>&nbsp; particular focus is on a class of pollutants called poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, which have rung alarm bells among scientists, environmentalists and policy-makers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBeing outside in nature was a big part of my childhood and really shaped who I am, and I suddenly realized that I could combine these two worlds that I loved.\u201d Says <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/chemistry\/people\/amy-rand\/\">Amy Rand<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/amy-rand-focuses-pollutants\/\">Read full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biochemistry Professor Amy Rand from the Rand lab , combines environmental chemistry\u2014the study of how chemicals move through and interact with our environment, whether outside or inside our homes\u2014with toxicology. Proffesor Rand&#8217;s&nbsp; particular focus is on a class of pollutants called poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, which have rung alarm bells among scientists, environmentalists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}