Student and Alumni Profiles

Tamia Boyer
Alumni Profile
MS (Thesis), Industrial Hygiene & Safety (IH&S)
After earning her MS in Industrial Hygiene and Safety in 1997, Tamia Boyer went on to become an ORISE Fellow and now provides consultation and training as a Senior Safety Consultant with the National Safety Council.
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Chensheng (Alex) Lu
Alumni Profile
PhD, Industrial Hygiene & Safety (IH&S)
Chensheng (Alex) Lu, who earned his PhD in 1996, is researching pesticides to look into the trans-generational effects in honeybees, mammals, and humans.
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Kazu Okumura
Alumni Profile
BS, Environmental Health (EH)
Kazu Okumura earned a BS in Environmental Health and now serves as an Environmental Health Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps.
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Will Bond
Alumni Profile
BS, Environmental Health (EH)
After completing a summer internship with Amazon as an undergraduate, Will Bond graduated and was eventually promoted to Amazon's Global Road Safety Program Manager.
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Wafa Tafesh
Alumni Profile
BS, Environmental Health (EH)
Wafa Tafesh uses the knowledge she gained from her BS in Environmental Health to support her work as a Water Quality Scientist for King County.
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Julie Tu
Alumni Profile
MS (Thesis), Environmental Health (EH)
Julie Tu earned a BS in Environmental Health in 2015 and now works as a Senior Consultant at Ramboll, a large global consulting group.
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Manaola Hewett, MS Exposure Sciences 2018 & BS Environmental Health 2016
Alumni Profile
MS (Thesis), Exposure Science (ES)
Manaola Hewett earned a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Health from the University of Washington and then completed a master's degree in Occup
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Tyler Nicholas
Past student profile
PhD, Environmental Toxicology (Tox)
Tyler Nicholas research focuses on creating "organ-mimicking" cell cultures to better understand the relationship between silver nanoparticles and airway inflammation.
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Esther Min
Past student profile
PhD, Environmental and Occupational Hygiene (EOHY)
Esther Min's passion for environmental justice began when working on a water justice curriculum for a statewide coalition as an MPH student.
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