Members of the Department of Environmental Health’s Environmental and Occupational Hygiene Program will receive the 2016 John M. White Award for research in respiratory protection. Each year the American Industrial Hygiene Association Respiratory Protection Committee selects one article published in a previous year for the award. The authors will receive the award at the 2016 American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 23 for their paper titled "Penetration of Combustion Aerosol Particles Through Filters of NIOSH-Certified Filtering Facepiece Respirators” published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene in 2015.