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Rising star at Chapman gets $410,000 to study pollution

September 15th, 2009, 5:00 am · 8 Comments · posted by Gary Robbins, science writer-editor

YouTube Preview ImageA Chapman University chemist who studies pollution at Southern California mines has been given $410,000 to expand his research — money that comes from a federal program meant to nurture young scientists who show lots of potential.

Chris Kim, 36,  was awarded money through the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program, which has underwritten everyone from scientists using molecules to make biosensors to a possible “printing process” for duplicating human organs.

Kim specializes in the study of mercury and arsenic. Specifically, he looks at the potential threats such such pollutants to people who live near mines. Kim explains his work in the video above from Chapman.

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