Photo by Megan Mudersbach | Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton | 11.13.2019
Lt. Cmdr. N. Cody Schaal is a Navy Industrial Hygiene Officer, Deputy Director of the Environmental Health Effects Laboratory, and the Occupational Environmental Health Department Head, Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton (NAMRU-Dayton). Schaal is in one of NAMRU-Dayton’s operational exposure labs where scientists can simultaneously test chemical exposures with environmental stressors to......
Photo by Megan Mudersbach | Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton | 11.13.2019
Lt. Cmdr. N. Cody Schaal is a Navy Industrial Hygiene Officer, Deputy Director of the Environmental Health Effects Laboratory, and the Occupational Environmental Health Department Head, Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton (NAMRU-Dayton). Schaal is in one of NAMRU-Dayton’s operational exposure labs where scientists can simultaneously test chemical exposures with environmental stressors to......
Photo by Megan Mudersbach | Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton | 08.08.2019
Dr. Joyce Rohan, research physiologist, is in the Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton’s (NAMRU-Dayton) Environmental Health Effects Lab. Here, Rohan creates lab models to accurately reflect the myriad of environmental conditions Service members may experience....
Photo by Megan Mudersbach | Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton | 08.08.2019
This summer, Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton (NAMRU-Dayton) welcomed a cohort of 13 students with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) backgrounds to intern at the command for a few weeks of scientific learning and exploration. The range of internship opportunities allowed students to shadow our staff in conventional scientific research fields as well as other STEM areas,......
Photo by Megan Mudersbach | Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton | 08.08.2019
Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton (NAMRU-Dayton) is known for our unique research equipment and the talented engineers who keep them running efficiently and effectively. University of Cincinnati student, Chad McCoy, is using his mechanical engineering background to aid our team as an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education intern this summer. “A typical day for me involves modeling......
Photo by Megan Mudersbach | Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton | 08.08.2019
Natalie Gut will enter her first year of college with tangible work experience in a research lab thanks to her Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education experience as an intern for Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton. With her major currently undecided, her time at the command offered a valuable opportunity to serve as a “jane-of-all trades”, see several aspects of the labs, and gain......
Photo by Megan Mudersbach | Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton | 08.01.2019
Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton's (NAMRU-Dayton) motion capture lab welcomed Jacob Jadischke, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education intern and mechanical engineering student to spend the summer expanding his skill set. “This opportunity gives me experience in the research field for the first time. Helping with research that has the potential to improve the quality of......
Photo by Megan Mudersbach | Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton | 08.01.2019
Dr. Peter Le, biomechanical engineer, leads research efforts to improve spine health in military aviators as a part of Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton’s (NAMRU-Dayton) Spine Health Improvement Program lab (SHIP) housed in the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory at NAMRU-Dayton. Through basic and applied research targeting the mitigation of low back and neck disorders, research......