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Student Awards, Scholarships & Presentations
- Heather Bost
- student paper award, National Environmental Health Association, 2004
$500 travel award, National Environmental Health Association, 2005 - Yolanda Sanchez
- School of Public Health and Community Medicine's Martin Luther King
Award, 2006
Associated Schools of Public Health fellowship at the EPA National Center for Environmental Health Research, 2007 - Melissa Winters
- EPA Fellowship, 2007
- Amanda Zych
- National Environmental Health Association/Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs/CDC National Center for Environmental Health’s Student Paper Award, 2003
Thesis abstracts
(faculty preceptors in parentheses)
- Julie Christine Adams, MS
- A physiologically based toxicokinetic model of xylene inhalation exposure in Caucasian men and a correlation study of individual kinetic and anthropometric paramenters (David Kalman) 2000
- Ryan Wells Allen, PhD
- The estimated contributions of ambient and nonambient particulate matter to indoor concentrations and personal exposures (L-J Sally Liu) 2004
- Michelle Bell, MS
- A pilot study to evaluate the methodology of collecting and analyzing vectors and disease agents of Lyme Disease and human ehrlichoses. (Chuck Treser) 2000
- Heather Bost, MS
- A comparison of West Nile virus vector mosquito populations in sites with and without storm water drainage ponds (Scott Meschke) 2004
- Michael Compher, MS
- Children's exposure to diesel exhaust from school buses with different diesel engines - a pilot study (L.-J. Sally Liu) 2004
- Kristin Cunningham, MS
- Disinfection of pathogens on environmental surfaces by spray application of a disinfectant (Scott Meschke) 2005
- Cynthia Curl, MS
- Organophosphorous pesticide exposure in children of agricultural families in the lower Yakima Valley (Richard Fenske) 2000
- Ed Doran, PhD
- Measuring and modeling dermal absorption of pesticide residues (Richard Fenske) 2000
- Emily Duffield, MPH
- A modified method for viral and bacterial detection in oysters (Scott Meschke) 2005
- Kai Elgethun, PhD
- Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking to characterize children’s exposure to pesticides (Richard Fenske) 2004
- Emily Goswami, MS
- Spatial characteristics of fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide in Seattle: identifying representative monitoring sites (Sally Liu) 2001
- Katherine Himes, MS
- Investigation of orchard proximity effect on organophosphorous pesticide exposures among agricultural workers and their families (Richard Fenske) 2003
- Nicola (Nicky) Josephs, MS
- An evaluation of the utility of F+RNA coliphages for source tracking pathogens in environmental waters (John Scott Meschke) 2004
- Bethany Katz, MS
- Evaluating the contribution of woodsmoke to Seattle PM2.5 using levoglucosan as a molecular tracer (David Kalman) 2003
- Iyad Kheirbek, MS
- Development of a passive sampler to detect six aldehydes (Sally Liu) 2003
- Gary Palcisko, MS
- Children's exposure to lead and arsenic in orchard soils (John Kissel) 2000
- Rene Showlund, MS
- Transfer of pesticide residue to skin following contact with a contaminated surface (John Kissel) 2002
- Lindsay Smith, MS
- Plausibility of direct exposure to paranitrophenol in the Chicago methyl parathion residential spraying case (John Kissel) 2003
- Karen Takatani, MS
- Persistence of E.coli O157:H7, S. typhimurium, and Coliphage MS2 in a model home water system after ultraviolet (uv) disinfection treatment (Scott Meschke) 2005
- Hongxia Wang, MS
- The cardiopulmonary effects of 300 ppb NO2 on healthy subjects (Jane Koenig) 2001
- Sarah Weppner, MS
- Farm exposures to deposited arsenic and lead on Vashon/Maury Island (John Kissel) 2001
- Christopher Wilkerson, MS
- Antibiotic resistance prevalence in Escherichia coli isolated from humans, wild and domesticated animals, and environmental sources (Mansour Samadpour) 2003
- Hongbin Xiao, MS
- Evaluation of passive samplers for monitoring six aldehyde compounds. (Sally Liu) 2000
- Diane Yoder, MS
- Agricultural injuries among adult Hispanic farm workers.(Matt Keifer) 2000
- Amanda Zych, MS
- Identifying mosquito vector species in stormwater drainage ponds in King County, Washington (Charles Treser) 2003