This application requests support for 3 pre-doctoral students and 1 postdoctoral fellow for the first two years and support for 4 pre-doctoral students and 2 postdoctoral fellows for the next three years for the Joint Graduate Program in Exposure Science (JGPES) of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences/UNMDJ and Environmental Sciences/Rutgers University. The JGPES has seventeen faculty members from four departments of the two universities and has trained thirty-three doctoral students to date. The central mission of the JGPES is to train pre- and postdoctoral trainees with a broad knowledge of human exposure science and its applications to the environmental health sciences, and to provide rigorous training in their specialized area of research. The JGPES is the first Exposure Science Doctoral Degree granting program in the United States,he wants to spend more time with his young children.

Smith was first elected in 2004, and was re-elected in 2006, 2008 and 2011, each time with a bigger share of the popular vote.

She said she feels she has accomplished what she can in Parliament for victims of human trafficking.

"I’m really excited about what I can do outside of Parliament," she told the Free Press in an interview.

Smith had two private members’ bills passed, in 2010 and 2012, which amended the Criminal Code as it pertains to human trafficking. The first introduced mandatory minimum sentences for traffickers of children, and the second gives Canada the power to try Canadians here for human trafficking offences abroad.

She also helped create the national action plan against human trafficking and was part of