As a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) mentor, Associate Professor Mindy Levine (University of Rhode Island)provides a platform for training and development — the exact kind of experience that changed her life as an undergraduate student. Levine also talks about the work in her lab to figure out new ways to detect toxic chemicals in the environment and in commercial products.

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