2018 Awardees

2018 COEH Student Project Awards

COEH is proud to support its third round of student projects awards. Students proposed research projects in occupational or environmental health to be conducted under the guidance of a COEH affiliated faculty. Teaching, service, community intervention, and policy projects were also considered, with the purpose of encouraging MS and Doctoral students to work in teams with students from other disciplines in order to better address real world problems.


Workplace predictors of duration of breastfeeding, duration of expressing breast milk in the workplace, and adherence to CDC recommendations for cleaning of a breast pump among employee nurses

Anne Gelber (PhD student in the School of Nursing) and Wendie Robbins (Faculty Advisor)


Evaluating the effects of e-liquid components and environmental parameters on evaporation of e-cigarettes emitted fine and ultrafine aerosols

Liqia (Vicky) Li (PhD student in Environmental Health Sciences) and Yifang Zhu (Faculty Advisor)


Estimation of brake wear contribution to particulate pollution using on-road measurements

Farzan Oroumiyeh (PhD student in Environmental Health Sciences) and Yifang Zhu (Faculty Advisor)