OUR STUDENTS
Meet some students
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
(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