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Minal Patel first gained an appreciation for the complexities patients with chronic disease face while working with them in situations where other forces made decision-making challenging.
Dana Dolinoy’s work has been instrumental to putting the field of environmental epigenetics on the map. “It was a combination of timing and luck—that I started grad school at the time [the agouti] mice were becoming famous, and I got to start on this path,” she says.
I always felt hungry for knowledge. Pursuing an academic career was completely foreign to me. I didn’t know anyone who had gotten a PhD. But I knew I wanted to learn.
Collecting data from millions of patients and figuring out how to process and use it occupies much of Bhramar Mukherjee's time.
Rick Neitzel didn't always want to be an industrial hygienist or a professor. In college he explored programs in aerospace engineering and aviation safety before finally settling on a safety program. But it wasn't until he took a class on industrial hygiene that he knew he'd found his calling.
As professor and chair of the Nutritional Sciences department, Karen Peterson wants public health to have a greater role in preventing disease in children and in offering effective interventions when things have gone off track.