Description: Responsible Conduct in Research and Scholarship --- This course provides training in 8 modules:
(1) Research and Academic Misconduct;
(2) Intellectual Property;
(3) Responsible Authorship and Publications;
(4) Human Subject Research and IRBs;
(5) Animal Use and Care;
(6) Mentor/Mentee Relationships;
(7) Conflict of interest; and
(8) Research and Scholarship in Society and the Global Marketplace.
Learning Objectives: Responsible Conduct in Research and Scholarship --- This course provides training in 8 modules:
(1) Research and Academic Misconduct;
(2) Intellectual Property;
(3) Responsible Authorship and Publications;
(4) Human Subject Research and IRBs;
(5) Animal Use and Care;
(6) Mentor/Mentee Relationships;
(7) Conflict of interest; and
(8) Research and Scholarship in Society and the Global Marketplace.
Description: A comprehensive framework for predicting and evaluating environmental impacts is presented. The course emphasizes the theory, application, integration and evaluation of models simulating transport and fate of contaminants in air, surface and ground water, and soil. Case studies and computer exercises demonstrate contemporary exposure and health risk assessment problems.
This course is cross-listed with NRE514 in the NRE department.
Description: Minimize environmental risks, and promote health and sustainability. This course introduces the sources, transport and fate processes, and risks associated with pollutants in air, water and soil, describes sampling and assessment techniques, and presents mechanisms for management, including legal and regulatory approaches, markets and partnerships, and technological innovations.
Learning Objectives: 1. Describe characteristics of pollutants and pollutant sources in all environmental media, including ambient air, indoor air, surface water, groundwater and soil, that are essential to understanding the potential for pollutant exposure and toxicity.
2. Obtain and analyze relevant data pertinent to environmental pollutant transport and fate, cross-media transfer, bioaccumulation, multimedia exposure pathways, and human exposure.
3. Describe and utilize concepts, terminology and models for mass balance approaches used in environmental modeling and assessments.
4. Specify monitoring needs, sampling approaches, and data quality objectives needed to characterize contaminants in air, water and soil
5. Obtain, describe and use standards and guidelines that pertain to exposure and risk-based limits for pollutants in air, water and soil.
6. Describe the rationale and assess the feasibility, applicability and performance of alternative management approaches to controlling environmental pollutants and promoting environmental health.
7. Utilize and interpret results of selected models that describe pollutant sources, transport and fate processes, and human exposure and risk, including the use of spreadsheet tools for modeling and data management.
Description: Students will be able to understand all parts of the research process including conceptualization of a research question, formulation of hypotheses, development of a research plan, selection of appropriate methods from a variety of data collection strategies, development of an appropriate data analysis plan, and preparation of a research proposal.
Learning Objectives: 1. Differentiate between key funding agencies for public health and understand their mandates
2. Review and evaluate the quality of scientific literature including identifying knowledge gaps
3. Develop a scientific idea by conducting a critical assessment of current literature and preliminary results
4. Develop hypotheses to test in a scientific study
5. Differentiate between research strategies pertinent to proposed hypotheses
6. Describe selected research strategies to test outlined hypotheses
7. Design a plan for analyzing data pertinent to scientific study
8. Construct a mock grant proposal around research topic of interest (specifically specific aims, significance, innovation, and approach sections of a grant application)
