Cynthia Curl, School of Public and Population Health associate professor, recently spoke on a panel at the Idaho Women’s Charitable Foundation 2024 Symposium.
The panel session, titled “Solutions for Environmental Problems in a Changing World,” brought together five Boise State faculty members and researchers to discuss their research identifying solutions to current environmental issues.
Curl founded and directs Agricultural Health Lab and is a co-director of the Center for Excellence in Environmental Health and Safety at Boise State. She was joined by Professor Rebecca L. Som Castellano (School of the Environment), Professor Alejandro Flores (Department of Geosciences), Associate Professor Jen Pierce (Department of Geosciences) and doctoral Candidate Kendra Fallon (Department of Geosciences).
Curl and the panel provided insight into the cutting-edge, environmental-related research happening at Boise State, such as predicting wildfire and heatwave impacts, protecting agricultural lands, changes in water supply demands due to changes in climate, reducing harm from pesticide exposure among farmworkers and people living in agricultural communities and more.
Curl’s research focuses on environmental health and exposure science with an emphasis on understanding exposures to agricultural chemicals and their effects on farmworkers, agricultural communities and the general public.