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BUSPH Doctoral Student Wins Recognition for Army Jet Fuel Research Project

There's nothing quite like the pungent smell of jet-propulsion fuel in an Air Force hangar to get an environmental-health researcher's adrenaline pumping. "Walking in the hangar -- wow, it's really strong. You realize how volatile it is," Kristen Weida Smith, a doctoral student and research analyst in BUSPH's Environmental Health Department, says of a research project that has taken her to an Air Force base in the Midwest to collect data on jet-propulsion fuel exposure....[Continued]