STUDENT RESEARCH: 1990-1994

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AUTUMN 1994

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Cynthia L. Cozza	MS IH&S	Investigation of the Use of CO₂ as a Normalizing Factor when Measuring Organic Solvents in the Expired Breath of Humans	Morgan
Michael R. Kubler	MS Tox	Prevalence of shiga-like toxin producing Escherichia coli in the Seattle, WA ground beef supply	Samadpour
John Kushleika	MS Tox	An Investigation of Lymphocyte Superoxide Dismutase Activity in Parkinson's Disease	Woods
Tamara Seebach	MS Tech	A comparison of radioactive waste management practices among rural vs. urban nuclear medicine clinics in Washington State	Hatlen
Katherine Elizabeth Teschke	PhD IH&S	Case Surveillance as a Means of Detecting Occupational Sources of Exposure to Carcinogens: A Study of Nasal Cancer, Bladder Cancer, and Mesothelioma Cases in British Columbia, Canada	Morgan

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SUMMER 1994

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Julie Ann Gahn	MS IH&S	A Comparison of Tracer Gas Concentrations Taken in a Wind Tunnel at the Mouth of a Mannikin to Values Found at its Lapel and Cheek	Guffey
Lambros B. Georgoulis	MS IH&S	Effects of Swelling on the Permeation Behaviour of Selected Glove Materials by Mixtures of Liquid Methyl Ethyl Ketone (MEK) and Toluene	Morgan
Gail Gislason	MS IH&S	Assessment of Arsenic Exposure in a Highly Exposed Population in Chile	Kalman
Linda M. Grimm	MS Tech	Molecular epidemiology of Escherichia coli O 157:H7	Samadpour
Keith M. Groth	MS IH&S	Evaluation of Calibration Parameters and Performance of the Video Imaging Technique of Assessing Exposure (VITAE System)	Fenske
Chiung-I Hwang	MS IH&S	The End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide Concentrations in Adult Women	Morgan
Joseph E. Johnson	MS Tech	Plausibility of Dermal Pathway Dominance in Risk Assessment of Contaminated Soils: An Examination of Selected Superfund Risk Assessments	Kissel
Daniel Gregory Peek	MS IH&S	An Observational Technique for Assessment of Safety Performance on Construction Sites	Freeman
Elliot Rosenberg	MPH OEM	ACES LIFE: Health Risk and Needs Assessment of USAF Aviator and Aircrew Lifestyle at a Pacific Northwest Air Force Base	Checkoway
Nicholaus Schipanski	MS Tox	Transcriptional Regulation of Gamma-Glutamylcysteine Synthetase Large Subunit mRNA in Response to Methyl Mercury in Rat Liver	Woods

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SPRING 1994

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Kathleen M. Buller	MS IH&S	A Behavioral Evaluation of Mercury Exposure Among Dentists	Morgan
Avra Cohen	MS Tech	Tracing the Sources of Fecal Coliforms in the Cedar River Watershed	Samadpour
Carla Marie Gundermann	MS Tech	Analysis of OP-FTIR Background Collection and Generation Methods Under Controlled Variable Temporal Conditions	Yost
Gary Hartmann	MS Rad Sci	The Contribution of Radon-220 (Thoron) to Indoor Radon Levels in Western Washington	Nevissi
Jeffrey S. Hogue	MS IH&S	Characterization of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Differences in Endogenous Ammonia in Human Respiratory Airways	Koenig
Kevin O'Barr	MS IH&S	Comparison of Office Ventilation Rates to Employee Symptom Prevalence	Morgan
Catherine R. Rogovin	MS Tox	Neurobehavioral effects due to prenatal low level methylmercury exposure in mice	Gilbert
Jeffrey H. Ward	MS Tox	The Effects of In-Utero Methanol Exposure on the Development of Visual Acuity in Infant Monkeys	Burbacher

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WINTER 1994

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Guy William Silvey	MS IH&S	Investigation of In-Vitro Individual Blood/Air Partition Coefficients for the Perdeuterated and Nondeuterated Isomers of Xylene and Toluene	Kalman
Sarah Wolz	MS IH&S	Residential Arsenic and Lead Levels in an Agricultural Community with a History of Lead Arsenate Use	Fenske

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AUTUMN 1993

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Yutaka Aoki	MS Tox	The Influence of Anticoagulant, Temperature, and Time on In Vitro Recovery of Organophosphate Inhibited Cholinesterase	Keifer
Christine Betchley	MS Tech	Smoke Exposure and Health Effects on Forest Firefighters at Prescribed Burns	Koenig
Ted F. Carrell	MS IH&S	Validation of Power Loss Modeling in Predicting the Effects of Removing One or More Branches from a Five Branch Ventilation System	Guffey
Timothy G. Ewers	MS Tox	Examination of the effects of Lead on Spermatogenesis and Sperm Chromatin Structure in Rats	Faustman
Anne Golaz	MPH Occ Med	Airway Effects of Controlled Human Exposure to Toluene	Barnhart
Wan-Fen Li	MS Tox	Development of a Mouse Model for Studying Paraoxonase	Costa
Cheryl Oxley	MS Rad Sci	The Relationship Between Obesity and Serum Cholesterol Level	Nevissi
Jeffrey G. Spann	MS IH&S	Experimental investigation of power loss coefficients and static pressure ratios in an industrial exhaust ventilation system	Guffey
Ming-Chih Sun	MS Rad Sci	The Effects of Dexamethasone and/or Captopril on the Dose Response for Radiation Nephropathy	Geraci

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SUMMER 1993

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Ralph E. Broz	MS Rad Sci	Ambient Non-penetrating and Photon Doses in the Vicinity of a Large Nuclear Facility	Nevissi
Margaret Cary	MS IH&S	Effective Training as a Function of Worker Participation	van Belle
Scott Anders Colvin	MS IH&S	Experimental Validation of the Efficacy of Power Loss Coefficients in Detecting Ventilation System Modifications and in Predicting New Airflow Levels and Pressures	Guffey
Robert M. Duff	MS Tox	In Vitro Dermal Uptake of Soil Contaminants: Effects of Soil Loading and Air Flow	Kissel
Juliane P. Hill	MS Tox	Cloning and Partial Characterization of the Mouse Gamma-Glutamylcysteine Synthetase Gene	Kavanagh
Jay Kimball Kidney	MS Tox	Modulation of Nitrosourea Toxicity in Rodent Embryonic Cells by O⁶-benzylguanine, a Depletor of O⁶-methylguanine-DNA Methyltransferase	Faustman
Mark Matyjas	MS IH&S	A comparative study of two sampling methods for monomeric and polymeric isocyanates in two-component polyurethane paint spray aerosol	Morgan
Ying Chung Ou	MS Tox	The correlation between glutathione contnt and gap junctional intercellular communication in rat-1 fibroblasts	Kavanagh
Lynne Pinkerton	MPH Occ Med	Pulmonary function in Seattle firefighters	Daniell
Alan Potter	MS Tox	The effect of in vivo exposure to phorone and buthione sulfoximine on glutathione content, calcium mobilization, and DNA synthesis in mouse splenic T lymphocytes	Kavanagh
Nancy J. Simcox	MS IH&S	Organophosphorous pesticide residues in soil as a potential source of exposure among children of agricultural families	Fenske
Patricia Lynne Simmonds	MS Tox	A comparison of urinary coproporphyrin, erythrocyte alad activity and zinc protoporphyrin/heme ratio as biochemical indices of lead exposure in rats	Woods
Dana L. Stahl	MS Tox	Regulation of rat glutathione-S-transferase isozyme expression by cytochrome P450 inducing agents and diquat	Eaton
Seth Stuebbe	MS Tox	Flow cytometric measurement of glutathione content in respiratory epithelial cells exposed in vitro to ozone	Luchtel
Thomas J. Theno	MS Tech	Microbial assay of toxicity associated with biological treatment of water contaminated with chlorinated organics	DeWalle
Lalita Uppala	MS Tox	An in vivo and in vitro comparison of the toxicity of advanced composite materials	Luchtel

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SPRING 1993

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Sean Rose (Robert P. Baer)	MS Tox	Effects of mercury on gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase large subunit mRNA levels in rat kidney	Woods
Susan M. Crawford	MS Tox	Lung effects of photochemical pollutant exposure on children in an outdoor setting	Koenig
Bradley A. Evanoff	MPH Occ Med	Reliability and validity testing of a questionnaire measuring past physical exposures to the back and lower extremities	Rosenstock
Mary Ellen Flanagan	MS IH&S	Air sampling at the lapel and ear as representative of the breathing zone	Guffey
Robert C. Lee	MS Tech	Prediction of exposures to arsenic contaminated residential soil using Monte Carlo simulation: a comparison with biomonitoring data	Kissel
Mary Therese O'Donnell	MPH Occ Med	The predictive value of the Methacholine challenge test in Seattle firefighters	Barnhart
Lyle A. Rathbun	MS Rad Sci	The use of the Pancake Geiger Mueller Detector to measure betadose to the skin	Robkin
Jennifer L. Reasoner	MS Tox	Genetic expression of CYP2D6 (Debrisoquine Hydroxylase) and epoxide hydrolase: studies examining their potential association with Parkinson's Disease	Omiecinski
Raelyn C. Stockwell	MS Tech	Personal flotation devices: an observational study characterizing usage in King County, Washington	Treser

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WINTER 1993

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Ann E. (Farkas) Duffner	MS IH&S	Evaluating direct observation analysis versus videotape analysis for assessing risk of cumulative trauma disorders of the hand and wrist: a pilot study in a frozen food factory	Morgan
Paul R. Seidel	MS Tech	Intraspecies differentiation of Giardia lamblia by amplified sequence polymorphisms	Nevissi

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AUTUMN 1992

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Nancy B.Beck	MS Tox	The effects of ozone on intercellular adhesion molecule 1 expression in human nasal epithelial cells	Luchtel
Dennis P. Campbell	MS Tech	Landfill gas composition database: a tool for predicting environmental impacts	Kalman
Peter J. Hamlin	MS IH&S	A system for exposing cell cultures to sulfuric acid aerosol	Koenig
John T. Heinonen	MS Tox	Determination of aflatoxin B metabolism and binding to hepatic macromolecules in rat, ethoxyquin treated rat, and human precision liver slices	Eaton
Marthlyn Jones	MPH Occ Med	Environmental and demographic predictors of blood lead levels in children	Fenske
Shawn A. O'Toole	MS Rad Sci	Biochemical alterations in the irradiated rat liver	Geraci
Julie T. Wroble	MS Tox	Characterization of ethylnitrosourea treated CNS micromass cultures using immunocytochemical and flow cytometric methods	Faustman

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SUMMER 1992

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Sherry Baron	MS IH&S	A study of lead exposure profiles in handgun users at indoor firing ranges	Morgan
Kathryn A. Kovacs	MS Tox	Ethanol inhibits muscarinic receptor-stimulated phosphoinositide metabolism and calcium mobilization in rat primary cortical cultures	Costa
Ralph Perona	MS Tech	Predicting volatile organic compound emissions from in-vessel municipal solid waste composting	Kissel
Henry Stockbridge	MPH Occ Med	A case-control study of multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome (MCS): results of immunologic testing	Daniell
Gabrielle Toutonghi	MS IH&S	Characterization of perchloroethylene exposure in commercial dry cleaning workers with biological monitoring	Morgan
Gary E. Whitney	MS IH&S	Evaluation of the use of carbon dioxide as a normalizing factor when measuring organic solvents in the expired breath of humans	Morgan

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SPRING 1992

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Jennifer L. Beeh	MS Tech	Characterization of Cryptosporidium infection by oocyst and antigen shedding	Ongerth
Carl A. Brodkin	MPH Occ Med	Correlation between respiratory symptoms and pulmonary function in asbestos-exposed workers	Rosenstock
Brent T. Burton	MPH Occ Med	Blood lead levels among intravenous drug abusers and lead and mercury levels in illicit methamphetamine samples in Oregon 1987-1991	Kalman
Anthony C. D'Silva	MPH Occ Med	Surveillance testing of hazardous waste workers	Rosenstock
Shannon K. Heath	MS IH&S	Sulfur dioxide ethnicity study: comparing pulmonary and nasal function upon exposure to sulfur dioxide of African-American and Caucasian asthmatic males	Koenig
Duane W. Medley	MS Rad Sci	An investigation of the simulated twenty-four protocol for uranium in urine by kinetic phosphorescence analysis	Nevissi
Nancy L. Ragle	MS Tech	Short-term variability in leachate quality at two locations within a municipal landfill	Kissel
Cynthia L. Rogers	MS IH&S	A comparison of the effects of crossdrafts on the exposure factors of an enclosing hood and a capturing hood	Morgan

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WINTER 1992

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Raymond Christian	MS IH&S	Toxicity of fibers and particulates as studied in rat lung organ	Luchtel
William T. Geer	MS IH&S	Turbulent diffusion modeling in an indoor environment	Morgan
Lewis E. MacCarter	MPH Occ Med	Giardia and Cryptosporidium in a closed watershed	Ongerth

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AUTUMN 1991

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Ingrid K. Borroz	MS Tox	Development and utilization of a probe for X-glutamylcysteine synthetase to study transcriptional regulation of glutathione biosynthesis	Eaton
Debra Jean Forslund (Malin)	MS Tech	Evaluation of the transport and impacts of landfill emissions by continuous monitoring of community air	Kalman
Mona Kimbell	MS Tech	Comparisons of methods for determining potency of developmental toxicants	Faustman
Teresa E. Packard	MS Tech	Soluble antigens in Giardia infections	Ongerth
Mark E. Wilk	MS IH&S	Gas/aerosol respirator fit testing method comparison	Morgan

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SUMMER 1991

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Nir Barnea	MS IH&S	Effect of face velocity, flanges, and mannikin position on the effectiveness of an enclosing hood	Guffey
Nicholas A. Davenport	MPH Occ Med	The chronic effects of occupational smoke exposure on pulmonary function in Seattle firefighters	Daniell
Christoph R. Enderlein	MS IH&S	Investigation of the relationship between contaminant concentration and blood/air phase distribution behavior	Kalman
Barbara E. Fitzgerald	MS Tox	Modulation of muscarinic receptor subtypes in rat brain and T-lymphocytes following prolonged exposure to organophosphate	Costa
David E. McBride	MS Tox	Upper and lower respiratory effects of ozone in asthmatic and nonasthmatic individuals	Koenig
Barbara Morrissey	MS Tox	Modulation of muscarinic receptor subtypes in rat brain and T-lymphocytes following prolonged exposure to organophosphate	Costa

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SPRING 1991

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Michael L. Adams	MPH Occ Med	Predictors of outcome in surgically treated occupationally related carpal tunnel syndrome	Rosenstock
Cheryl E. Rohwein	MS IH&S	Occupational exposure assessment of laboratory workers to acrylamide monomer	Faustman
Barry A. Stevens	MS Tech	Respiratory effects in young adult asthmatics from the inhalation of hydrogen chloride	Koenig
Ronald L. Tubby	MS IH&S	Permeation of selected glove materials by methyl ethyl ketone and toluene mixtures	Morgan
Eric Wyse	MS Rad Sci	Inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry (ICP/MS) as an alternative method of measuring long-lived radionuclides in environmental and biological materials

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WINTER 1991

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Denise Bender	MS Tox	Detection and analysis of mutagenicity in complex mixtures using the combined AMES/TLC assay	Kalman
Miriam Bowers	MS Tox	Urinary porphryn profiles in unexposed and mercury exposed rats	Woods
Stuart Kent	MS Tech	Progress in the assay of volatile organic compounds in breath	Kalman

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AUTUMN 1990

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Pamela J. Deutsch	MS IH&S	An ergonomic job analysis of musculoskeletal problems in the printing industry	Checkoway
Tia M. Leber	MS Tox	Comparison of body burdens produced by inhalation and dermal exposure to xylene	Faustman
Kristy N. Loreen	MS IH&S	Descriptive study of styrene exposure and biological monitoring in three fiberglass-reinforced plastics plants in Western Washington	Checkoway
Wayne Martin	MS Rad Sci	The interaction of carbon-14 carbonate solution species with semiarid sediment	Nevissi
Christopher N. Skilton	MS Tech	Evaluation of the fish Oreochromis mossambicus in carcinogenicity testing	Nevissi
Trudy A. Thomas	MS Tox	Teratogenic effects of retinoic acid in an in vitro rat embryo culture system	Luchtel
Laurence Wechsler	MS IH&S	A pilot study of occupational and environmental risk factors for Parkinson's Disease	Checkoway

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SUMMER 1990

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Walter S. Ackerlund	MS Tox	Variability in blood/air partitioning of volatile organic compounds: effect of concentration and correlation with blood chemistry	Morgan
John Kelly	MS IH&S	A comparison of two methods for measuring solvent concentrations in breath	Morgan
Karl Kuntz	MS IH&S	Characterization of a head dome for human exposures to ambient and occupational airborne contaminants	Koenig
Denise M. Laflamme	MS Tox	The effects of transforming growth factor ß on differentiation: an in vitro investigation using primary embryonic limb and CNS cell cultures	Faustman
Hugh E. McLoone	MS IH&S	Pressure loss of air flowing into square and rectangular hoods	Guffey
Calvin B. Martin	MS IH&S	Formaldehyde exposure from dental instrument sterilizers	Daniell
Mary Ann Parkhurst	MS Rad Sci	The use of Boron radiators to enhance the response of CR-39 exposed to low energy neutrons

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SPRING 1990

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Stephen R. Channel	MS Tox	Regulation of intracellular glutathione in a rat diploid hepatic epithelial cell line	Eaton
James P. Curran	MS IH&S	Use of power balance to model converging flows in bilateral junctions for ventilation systems	Guffey
Joel Kaufman	MPH Occ Med	Detection of cardiac arrhythmias during maximal exertion in a controlled exposure to bromochlorodifluoromethane	Daniell
Julie Proctor	MS Tech	The control of Cryptosporidium oocysts by granular media filtration	Ongerth
Carol A. Trenga	MS Tox	Effect of styrene oxide on brain glutathione	Costa
Ryan J. Walker	MS Tech	Toxicity assessment of chlorinated organic contaminants from aqueous samples using supercritical fluid extraction	Ongerth
Terry Walley	MS IH&S	Assessment of air belts as an intervention for lower back pain in susceptible workers	Freeman

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WINTER 1990

GRADUATES	DEGREE	THESIS TOPIC	PRECEPTOR
Julia A. Richards	MS Tox	Characterization of glutathione S-transferase in human mononuclear leukocytes toward the epoxides of aflatoxin B1, benzo(a)- pyrene, trans-stilbene, and p-nitrostyrene	Eaton
Carol Sweeney	MS Tox	Expression of differentiated characteristics in rodent embryo central nervous system cell cultures: effects of chemical exposure	Faustman

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