<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2025/beatrice-glaviano-microplastics-research.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>09/17/2025</pubDate><title>Charger Blogger Discusses Affect of Plastics on a Cellular Level</title><description>Beatrice Glaviano ’26, a nutrition sciences major, shares her latest research exploring how microplastics impact human health and why having curiosity is the best place to start.</description><hide-description/><author>Beatrice Glaviano ’26</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>September 17, 2025</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/arts-sciences/news/blog/2025/beatrice-sjlab.jpg" alt="Where the magic happens"/></image><image-caption>Where the magic happens</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>college-health-sciences</tag><tag>name-beatrice-glaviano</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>program-surf</tag><tag>year-2025</tag></tags></item>