Luke Hullinger became an environmental engineer last year.
Hullinger’s academic history leads to his hiring as an environmental engineer in training by the US Environmental Protection Agency at its Greater Chicago office.
Between 2010 and 2014, the member of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe was studying for his BS in Engineering Physics at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, and serving as the school’s American Indian Science and Engineering Chapter President.
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During those years, Hullinger spent one summer as a Land Surveying Intern for the Bureau of Land Management, in the US Department of the Interior, another as a Research Intern at the University of Wisconsin, Madison studying moisture variation and varying humidities.
In the summer before he joined the Environmental Protection Agency, he worked as an Air Quality Compliance Specialist Intern for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe analyzing data of pollution emitting entities on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation.
