Student and Alumni Profiles

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On the job | Juliet Lopez

Student Profile

BS, Environmental Health (EH)

Navigating dirty restaurants and wide open spaces as a DEOHS summer intern

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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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