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JANS – Second year Jackson State University doctoral student, Kelsey Mathews, is wearing a hazmat suit, thick gloves, goggles, and work boots. Instead of entering into a Level 3 infectious disease laboratory, on a very warm summer day, she is headed out to catalog an illegal dumping site in the City of Jackson.
“You can never be too sure,” she says with a bright smile, while grabbing an arm full of cases with gadgets to collect soil samples, air quality samples, and environmental sound levels…