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Deb Swackhamer has been elected president of the National Water Institute in Washington, D.C.

A professor of environmental chemistry in the university's School of Public Health, Swackhamer also holds the Charles M. Denny, Jr. Chair of Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. She is internationally known for her research and leadership on persistent organic compounds including PCBs, dioxins and pesticides in the Great Lakes and the exposure of endocrine disruptors and human-induced hormones in lakes and watersheds.

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