Lead Innovation Team News Today

Years ago, a South Bend neighborhood reported the highest rate of children with unsafe blood-level levels in Indiana. A flood of resources followed.

The Lead Affinity Group will be conducting community presentations this fall to raise awareness and education.

Thanks to new funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Notre Dame researchers will co-create new tests and technologies alongside community h...

SOUTH BEND — A group of Notre Dame students and researchers on Saturday continued their efforts to tackle South Bend’s lead poisoning problem, and they want residents to know theres more money than ever available to help. In what they dubbed “Mulch Madness,” 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 ha...

SOUTH BEND — A group of Notre Dame students and researchers on Saturday continued their efforts to tackle South Bend’s lead poisoning problem, and they want residents to know theres more money than ever available to help. In what they dubbed “Mulch Madness,” 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 ha...

The alarm bells went off with this 2016 headline: “South Bend neighborhood has a higher rate of lead poisoning than Flint.” Lead is a toxic, human-produced metal that can be found in soil, paint, dust, water and, as the headline indicates, children, who can be exposed to this environmental hazard. Lead poisoning takes a terrible toll on people and communities, and “once exposed, never the same,” as the neurological and health impacts can be permanent. Yet, just as lead was p...