Ashley Adams, a WKU graduate student from Owensboro, became a volunteer firefighter in 2018 for the Airport-Sorgho Fire Department. Adams is a first-generation college student set to receive a Master of Environmental and Occupational Health Science Degree in December 2022.
“I chose WKU because of the previous research they had done with firefighters and my supervisor, Mac Cann, also teaches at WKU,” Adams said.
WKU’s Center for Environmental and Workplace Health (CEWH) has conducted research with the Green River Firefighter Association, in the northwestern region of Kentucky, for several years. Much of their research involves the examination of health behaviors and cancer risks among firefighters.