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Taking Measure

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Shahana Khurshid

Shahana Khurshid is an NRC RAP fellow in the Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation group at NIST. She received her B.S. in Environmental Engineering from MIT, M.S. in Biomedical Engineering and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. She was an avid cat lover growing up in Karachi, Pakistan, and now enjoys watching her children ‘kitten’ around with each other.

Indoor Air Quality Is Nothing To Sneeze At

July 18, 2016

Have you ever wondered if the things inside your house that you consider safe and harmless actually are? The perfume that you spray, the plastic food containers

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