It is almost spring time in Greenville, NC but it will be summer before we know it. So Master of Science in Environmental Health (MSEH) student, Bridget Angol, currently tests the heat stress monitors in preparation for data collection for her master’s thesis. Her research project involves measuring the heat stress exposure of groundskeepers and assessing the reliability of a new wet-bulb-globe-temperature (WBGT) app prototype developed by ECU professors. Bridget recently had her thesis proposal approved by her thesis committee and is ready to move on to her data collection this spring and summer.

Bridget is an international student from Ghana and has started in the MSEH program in Fall 2022. She earned her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Yangtze University in China. She decided to pursue an environmental health master’s degree upon realizing that many acute and chronic diseases can be attributed to the environment and that people need to be educated on how the environment may affect health to prevent such diseases.