Environmental epidemiologist Virginia Rauh

By Tina Renick

Published June 7, 2024 at 10:30 PM EDT

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Environmental epidemiologist Virginia Rauh knows the dismal effects of pesticides on the young, yet she loves to bring her students to the neonatal intensive care unit. “The NICU is a place of hope, and little babies are very, very cute.”

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