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July 14, 2010
AISES Member Makes Effects of Uranium Mining Life's Work

Article by Falmouth Institues- American Indian Report

There are many reasons to choose a career, but for Navajo Monica Yellowhair it’s all about doing something positive for her tribe.

Yellowhair, 29 and a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Arizona, has pledged to make researching the causes and prevention of cancer among the Navajo people that were allegedly caused by depleted uranium her life’s work. Click here to read more.