Talia Seymore (Stapleton laboratory) was honored to receive the inaugural Integral Charitable Foundation Research Ideas Award, an academic grant for pre-doctoral students in environmental science. The award provided funding to advance the second aim of her dissertation, which investigates the impact of gestational particulate matter inhalation on placental metabolism. With this support, she developed an innovative technique to examine placental bioenergetics within an in vivo rat exposure model. Her findings revealed mitochondrial dysfunction in the placenta under the stress of particulate exposure. Additionally, she observed sex-dependent responses to environmental stressors, highlighting the complexity of these effects