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Thanks to new funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Notre Dame researchers will co-create new tests and technologies alongside community h.
SOUTH BENDÂ â A group of Notre Dame students and researchers on Saturday continued their efforts to tackle South Bendâs lead poisoning problem, and they want residents to know there s more money than ever available to help.
In what they dubbed âMulch Madness,â they spent about five hours spreading mulch over exposed soil in the yards of 40 participating homes in the historic Monroe Park neighborhood southeast of the downtown. They also used a free test kit the university has developed to collect paint chip and dust samples from the homesâ interiors for lab analysis.
Biological Sciences Associate Professor Heidi Beidinger-Burnett, co-founder of the universityâs Lead Innovation Team, said the city has about $3 million in federal money, and the county has another $1 million, for income-eligible residents to have their interior lead paint risk assessed and eliminated, money that didnât exist in 2017. That was when alarms sounded after the Indiana De