Cynthia Curl
Assistant Professor
Boise State University
Cynthia Curl earned her Ph.D. in environmental and occupational health sciences from the University of Washington in 2014, and her master's degree from the same program in 2000. She earned her bachelor's degree in chemistry from Swarthmore College in 1998.
Her research interests are focused on environmental health and exposure science, with a particular emphasis on understanding exposures to agricultural chemicals and their effects on farmworkers, agricultural communities and the general public. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications on this topic, describing studies of the effectiveness of various agricultural re-entry periods on worker exposures, research on the “take-home” pathway of exposure on families of agricultural workers, and investigations of the effect of organic diets on pesticide exposures to the general public.
She joined Boise State University in the spring of 2015 as an assistant professor after earning her doctoral degree in environmental and occupational health sciences at the University of Washington (UW). Dr. Curl also worked for several years as a researcher for the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center at UW. She also spent time working in both the private and non-profit sectors as an environmental consultant and as a researcher.