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This November's presidential election has already turned into aheated confrontation involving issues that are important to theAmerican public. Yet one critical concern-homelandsecurity-continues to receive scant attention from either majorparty candidate. The anniversary of the 9/11 attacks should remindboth campaigns that the issue of homeland security cannot beignored.

Her most current research work, a six-year project funded by NIH in which she serves as the principal investigator is the “Environmental Health Research Experiences for Teachers in High-Poverty Schools: A Professional Development Program.” This project provides teachers from high need schools across North Carolina with knowledge in environmental health research sciences. The NIH-funded program, which is a collaboration with faculty from the Department of Biological Sciences at NC State and ...