Capstone Experience

Master's Degree Students' Capstone Seminar Presentations

Spring 2006
Rob Maestretti, Modeling Human Health Risk Associated with Dermal Exposure to Arsenic in the Floodwaters of New Orleans
Tiffany Delcour, Variation of Multiple Sclerosis Risk Based on Birth Month
Olga Bobadilla, Landfill Management and its Public Health Effects: A Case Study, Old Gentilly Landfill, New Orleans, LA
Cherdchai Worakaensai, Cadmium Contamination in Tak Province, Thailand
Tanya Santiago, Human Health Risks of Consuming Backyard Produce Irrigated with Trichloroethylene-Contaminated Groundwater
Jocelyn Truss, Assessing the Need for an Ergonomics Program
Jantz Malbrue, Di-n-Propyl Amine: A Spill Close to Home
Caroline Whitehead, EPA Office of Water: From Capstone to Career

Doctoral Dissertations

Recent Dissertation Titles for Public Health Doctoral Degrees (ScD):

2006
Margot Brown, Identifying Health and Environmental Concerns in a Fence-Line Community
Charlie Oliya, Enhanced Extraction of Hexavalent Chromium From Radwaste Slurries

2005
Daniel Harrington, Measurement and Health Risk Assessment of Volatile Organic Air Pollution in South Louisiana
Wayne Mikula, Modeling the Human DDT Body Burden Using Domestically Grown Chickens as Food Animal Sentinels In Nicaragua
Lisa Pratt Ward, Development of an Oxidative-Acid Disinfection Process Using Chlorine Dioxide and Nitrous Acid to Produce Class A Biosolids

2004
Abeer Alnafisi, Evaluating Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Environmental Samples for Human Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Activation Using A Yeast Bioassay
Hsin-I Lin, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Bioaccumulation in Crawfish:  Field Sampling Laboratory Analysis and Bayesian Model Development
Kari Fitzmorris, Closed System Alkaline Biosolids Disinfection and the Development of Activated Carbon from Municipal and Poultry Wastes
Kimberly Gallo, An Analysis of Environmental Justice: Public Health and Environmental Policy Decision Making

2003
Mohamed Momtaz ElSawy, Line-1 Retrotransposition is Increased in Response to Nickel
Wen-Chao Ho, Influence of Body Mass Index and Air Pollution on Increased Morbidity from Asthma in Adolescents in Taiwan
Rosalind Michelle Green, Acute Toxicity and Bioaccumulation of a Mixture of Two Herbicides, 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid and Monosodium Methanearsonate, in the Red Swamp Crawfish, Procambarus
Shamsudin Ab Latif, Decolorization of Textile Wastewater Using Peat-Enhanced Activated Sludge Process

2002
Sharee Major Rusnak, Histopathology of Gill Injury and Immune Response in Yucatan Sailfin Mollies ( Poecilia velifera ) Exposed to Cadmium
Hueiwang Jeng, Fate of Indicator Organisms and Salmonella SPP. From Urban Runoff Discharged into Lake Pontchartrain

2001
Carolyn E. Junemann, Using Decision Analysis for Ranking Potential Pollutant Risk Resulting from Ship Breaking
Chih-yang Hu, Methyl Tertiary-Butyl Ether (MTBE) Biodegradation in a Continuous Upflow Fixed-Biofilm Reactor

2000
Mingyi Wen, Japanese Medaka ( Oryzias latipes ) as a Biomedical Model for Reproductive Toxicity Assessment

1999
Gerald L. Goldstein, Trace Element Partitioning, Mobility and Bioavailability in Red Mud Synthetic Wetland Sediment
Lorenzo H. Rodriguez, The Fate of 1,3-Hexachlorobutadiene and Hexachlorabenzene in a Swamp Environment in the State of Louisiana
Hsio-Lin Chen, The Effects of Chromium on the Male Reproductive System in Mice