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As of December 2025, Brander has taken a full-time position as a Project Director, Science with The Pew Charitable Trust’s Safer Chemicals Program. This newly established project at Pew aims to reduce exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals, including those associated with plastics, nationwide. She retains a Courtesy Faculty appointment at OSU, remaining connected to ongoing projects and collaborations through the PNW Consortium on Plastics. The focus of this work continues to be on the occurrence and effects of stressors such as micro/nanoplastics, microfibers, pesticides and wildfire retardants, as well as changing climate, from land to sea.

Due to this change in position, Brander is no longer recruiting graduate students, but continues to advise on graduate student committees and on the work of continuing students in the programs for Fisheries and Wildlife and Environmental and Molecular Toxicology.