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Diana Ceballos, evaluate protective gloves’ efficacy against isocyanates

Ryan Blood, large scale construction project safety

Rick Neitzel, noise-induced hearing loss

Danielle Parette, chemical exposures

Phayong Thepaksorn, prevention of occupational injuries

Student Awards, Scholarships & Presentations

Oleg Antonchuk, IH, MS (previously called Industrial Hygiene (IH))
Scholarship- 3M Occupational Health & Environmental Safety, Industrial Hygiene Scholarship Program, May 2007
Stephanie Griffin, IH, MS (previously called Industrial Hygiene (IH))
Student travel award from the National Hearing Conservation Association to attend their annual conference in February 2007
Diana Ceballos, EOHyg, PhD
Scholarship - Student scholarship from the Pacific Northwest Section - American Industrial Hygiene Association awarded at the 2006 Northwest Occupational Health Conference, October 25 - 27, 2006, Wenatchee, WA
Presentation - Interdisciplinary Research Seminar, UW, Monday, Feb. 26th, 2007: Isocyanate Surface Sampling in the Puget Sound Collision Repair Industry
Poster - AIHA 2007, June 3-6, Philadelphia, PA: Isocyanate Surface Sampling in the Puget Sound Collision Repair Industry
Loren Kaehn, ES, MS (previously called Industrial Hygiene (IH))
American Industrial Hygiene Foundation Scholarship ($4000 for the 07-08 school year)
Pacfic Northwest Section of the American Industrial Hygiene Association Scholarship ($750, last fall 2006)

Thesis abstracts

students in the lab

(faculty preceptors in parentheses)

George Astrakianakis, PhD
Cotton dust, endotoxin exposure and the risk of lung cancer among female textile workers in Shanghai (Noah Seixas) 2005
Chris Ballew, MS
An Intervention Aiding in the Reduction of Organophosphate Pesticides From Take-Home Pathways (Richard Fenske) 2006
Parveen Bhatti, PhD DNA
Double strand break repair polymorphisms, ionizing radiation exposure and breast cancer risk (Michael Yost) 2006
Bryan Berna, MS
Occupational noise exposures aboard catcher processors in the Bering Sea and Pacific Ocean (Noah Seixas) 2005
Janet Blackstone, MS
Physical Exposure Differences Between Children and Adults on Different-sized Computer Input Devices (Peter Johnson) 2005
Kai Elgethun, PhD
Global positioning system (GPS) tracking to characterize children’s exposure to pesticides (Richard Fenske) 2004
Fabiola Estrada, MS
An exploratory study of the incentives and disincentives for Latino farm workers in the State of Washington to participate in the Workers' Compensation system (Matthew Keifer) 2004
Amber Govert, MS
Development of an Analytical Method for the Determination of 3-Nitrotyrosine in Human Samples by HPLC-MS/MS (Christopher Simpson) 2005
Elizabeth Gray, MS
Exposure Assessment and Exhaled Breath Analysis of Solvent Exposed Workers (Michael Morgan) 2006
Cheng (Robin) Han, MS
The development of testing software to measure and characterize differences in computer mouse use proficiency: comparison of children and adults (Peter Johnson) 2006
Michael Harris, MS
Organizational factors influencing the use of fall protection in aircraft maintenance. (Noah Seixas) 2005
Nicole Irby, MS
An assessment of noise frequency spectra associated with selected construction tasks (Noah Seixas) 2002
Douglas Johns, MS
The effect of varying concentrations of chemical mixtures containing toluene and methyl isobutyl ketone on the accuracy of collection in passive and active samplers (Michael Morgan) 2000
Douglas Johns, PhD
The Effect of Ethanol Consumption on the Biotransformation of 1,1,1-Trichloroethane in Human Volunteers (Michael Morgan) 2005
NaTasha Johnson, MS
Permeation of various glove materials by a binary mixture under a temperature gradient (Michael Morgan) 2004
David Klavens, MS
HPLC analysis of 1-Nitropyrene as a method for the measurement of diesel particulate matter (Christopher Simpson) 2005
Peter Lang, MS
Comparing predictions of steady-state permeation rate derived from mass-loss data to measured permeation rate in four combinations of two polymeric glove materials and two common solvents (Michael Morgan) 2006
Yi-Nien Lin, MS
The Effects of High Frequency Stimulation on Fatigue and Twitch Potential (Peter Johnson) 2005
Maria Majar, MS
Respirable dust and silica exposure assessment in construction tasks (Noah Seixas) 2001
Marie Michelle Martin, PhD
Comparison of three methods of breath sampling for biological monitoring of volatile organic chemicals (Michael Morgan) 2004
Phoung Thi Nguyen, MS
Silica exposure assessment of refractory brick workers in Vietnam (Mike Yost) 2004
Thomas Olenchock, MS
Cross shift changes in oto-acoustic emissions in relation to occupational noise exposure (Noah Seixas) 2003
Claire A. Olsovsky, MS
An electromagnetic field exposure assessment of airline ground crew workers: A comparison of metrics (Mike Yost) 2000
John Olson, MS
Non-occupational noise exposure and its contribution to noise dose in apprentice construction workers (Noah Seixas) 2002
Keone Pang, MS
Field evaluation of a multiple beam sampling strategy for OP-FTIR spectrometer monitoring (Michael Yost) 2000
Daniel Ratican, MS
The distribution of methyl chloroform between sorbent layers of a dual stage passive monitor (Michael Morgan) 2002
Carolyn Salazar, MS
Evaluation of reliability and validity of the hand activity level (HAL) and the strain index for use in epidemiological studies (Peter Johnson) 2003
Thomas Sultze, MS
Work on the edge: Factors affecting respirable dust exposures during concrete grinding (Noah Seixas) 2003
Maggie Trabeau, MS
An Evaluation of "Train-The-Trainer" vs. Expert Training Modalities for Hearing Protection Use in Construction (Noah Seixas) 2006
Carolyn Whitaker, MS
Accuracy of construction worker recall of tasks for epidemiological exposure assessment to noise (Noah Seixas) 2001
Lori Winnemuller, MS
The validity of supervisor assessments in identifying ergonomic risk factors (Joel Kaufman) 2001
Jason Woodruff, MS
Validation of Task-Based Noise Exposure Predictions in the Construction Trades (Noah Seixas) 2006
Chang-Fu Wu, PhD
Applying optical remote sensing techniques to evaluate personal exposure (Michael Yost) 2002
Tanongsak Yingratanasuk, MS
An assessment of lung diseases and silica exposure in a stone carving company in Chonburi Province, Thailand (Noah Seixas) 2001
Jennifer Young, MS
Hearing Protection Device Use and Attenuation Among Construction Workers (Noah Seixas) 2006
Wenjie Zhu, MS
Application of GPS/GIS in Chinese farmers for assessment of potential organophosphate pesticide exposures from crop residues (Michael Yost) 2004

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