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The familiar smell of damp air, drizzled rain and diesel greeted her as she stepped off the plane in Nairobi, Kenya. It had been more than three decades since she last stood on the soils of Kenya, but Cathy Oloo still feels the same connection to the country that she developed as a child, when she lived and went to school in the region.

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Back to her roots: UCLA graduate student receives award for research in Kenya

By Annie Lu

Oct. 25, 2013 12:56 a.m.