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Can an expectant mom’s diet impact her baby’s chances of developing diabetes? Does childhood exposure to dust mites or air pollution cause asthma? How do natural gas wells really impact surrounding water and air quality? And how can foodborne illnesses, like the deadly listeria outbreak traced to a Colorado cantaloupe farm last summer, be prevented?

These are just some of the pressing questions being posed by researchers at the Colorado School of Public Health. Just four years after opening its doors, the unique three-university collaboration already boasts a student body of 533, 150 faculty members, and $30 million in federal research…