Chris Higgins, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Colorado School of Mines, was recently featured in a news article in the journal Nature about his and other scientists' work to trace perfluorochemicals in the environment. Also interviewed was Jennifer Field PhD '90, an enviornmental chemist at Oregon State University who frequently collaborates with Higgins. From the article: A few times every year, Christopher Higgins’s laboratory in Golden, Colorado, receives a special delivery in the mail. Inside an ice-box, Higgins finds several vials, each holding up to 250 ....