Core C: Community Engagement Core

核心 C：社区参与核心

• 批准号: 10351938
• 负责人: Kathleen Mead Vandiver
• 金额: $ 13.62万
• 依托单位: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10351938
• 关键词: Active Learning; Address; Adopted; Animal Model; Benign; Biology; Biomedical Research; Cancer Etiology; Carcinogens; Chemicals; Chemistry; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Data; Data Analyses; Devices; Dimethylnitrosamine; Disease; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Engineering; Environment; Environmental Engineering technology; Environmental Health; Environmental Pollution; Environmental Science; Evaluation; Family; Filtration; Foundations; Future; Goals; Hazardous Chemicals; Hazardous Substances; Health; High School Faculty; Home; Human; Industrialization; Intervention; Knowledge; Lead; Learning; Maps; Measures; Methods; Minority Groups; Mission; Municipalities; Mutagens; N-nitrosodimethylamine; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Nature; Nitrosamines; Nitroso Compounds; Nonprofit Organizations; Persons; Play; Poison; Prevention; Privatization; Program Research Project Grants; Public Health; Research; Research Project Grants; Risk; Role; Scientist; Secure; Social Responsibility; Soil; Stretching; Students; Superfund; System; Tactile; Technology; Toxic effect; Training; Translational Research; Tribes; Trust; Underrepresented Minority; Underrepresented Students; Vision; Water; Work; Youth; base; career; citizen science; community engagement; contaminated water; data management; drinking water; empowered; environmental chemical; environmental justice; experience; hands-on learning; informal support; innovation; learning community; member; next generation; novel; prevent; programs; remediation; sensor; superfund chemical; superfund site; synergism; teacher; toxicant; underrepresented minority student; water treatment

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT – COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CORE N-Nitrosamines are a family of chemicals that include some of the most potent mutagens known. N-nitrosamines are a major concern for people who live near the Olin Chemical Superfund Site, because there is a plume of N- nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) contamination of water and soil that stretches nearly a mile underground, contaminating municipal and private wells. NDMA is also a concern of the Passamaquoddy Tribe, because the methods used for water treatment are known to lead to formation of NDMA. Over many years, the MIT team has created strong relationships based on trust and mutually shared goals, and these relationships are the basis for ongoing and proposed work. Via bi-directional communication and collaboration with stakeholders, the CEC plays a vital role in accomplishing its mission of educating youth in environmental health sciences, inspiring research careers and social responsibility for the next generation of scientists, and reducing the amount of N- nitrosamines in drinking water. Specific Aim 1 is to teach. Working with BMR Projects 1 and 2, the CEC will create innovative, hands-on learning experiences that teach key concepts of biology and environmental health sciences. Working with the tribal educators (Culture Keepers), the MIT team will co-create and distribute hands-on experiential learning kits to teach key concepts of biology and environmental health to Tribal Youth. The CEC will also work with high-school teachers in Wilmington to optimize hands-on teaching experiences for Wilmington high-school teachers to share knowledge related to the research focus of the MIT SRP Projects 1 and 2. Using tactile teaching kits, the MIT SRP will address the pipeline problem by co-creating and offering teaching experiences to underrepresented minority (URM) individuals to inspire careers in environmental health. Specific Aim 2 is to intervene and prevent disease by working with all Projects to empower stakeholders to reduce the levels and toxicity of hazardous substances. The CEC will partner with community stakeholders to better communicate with organizations that can help to provide cleaner water, including the EPA. In addition, to reduce the levels of toxicants, the CEC (with support from the Environmental Science and Engineering [ESE] Projects 3 and 4), will team up with a non-profit organization that teaches tomorrow's leaders in industrial chemistry to adopt strategies that reduce and prevent environmental contamination. Specific Aim 3 is to support the use technology that will be developed by ESE Projects 3 and 4 to perform Citizen Science and provide filtration devices to the community. Data on the identity and the levels of N- nitrosamines will be collected by the CEC in collaboration with community members via a Citizen Science project. Data on the levels of N-nitrosamines will be integrated with data from the other Projects and Cores to contribute to risk evaluation. The CEC will also help to deploy a novel filtration device that destroys N-nitrosamines. By empowering people with knowledge of what is in their water and by offering filtration devices, the CEC will reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous chemicals in drinking water.

项目概要/摘要-社区参与核心 N-亚硝胺是一个化学家族，其中包括一些已知的最有效的诱变剂。亚硝胺 对于住在奥林化学超级基金基地附近的人来说，这是一个主要的问题，因为那里有一股N- 亚硝基二甲胺（NDMA）污染了地下近一英里的水和土壤， 污染了市政和私人威尔斯的水井。NDMA也是Passamaquoddy部落的一个关注点，因为 已知用于水处理的方法会导致NDMA的形成。多年来，麻省理工学院的团队 在信任和共同目标的基础上建立了牢固的关系，这些关系是 正在进行和拟议的工作。通过与利益相关者的双向沟通和合作，CEC 在完成环境健康科学教育青年的使命方面发挥着至关重要的作用， 下一代科学家的研究事业和社会责任，并减少N- 饮用水中的亚硝胺第一个目标是教书。与BMR项目1和2合作，CEC将 创造创新，动手学习经验，教授生物学和环境的关键概念 健康科学与部落教育工作者（文化守护者）合作，麻省理工学院团队将共同创建和分发 实践体验式学习工具包，向部落青年传授生物学和环境健康的关键概念。 CEC还将与威尔明顿的高中教师合作，优化实践教学经验， 威尔明顿高中教师分享麻省理工学院SRP项目1研究重点相关知识 和2.使用触觉教学工具包，麻省理工学院SRP将通过共同创造和提供 为代表性不足的少数民族（URM）提供教学经验，以激发环境卫生事业。 具体目标2是通过与所有项目合作，增强利益相关者的能力， 降低有害物质的含量和毒性。CEC将与社区合作 利益相关者，以更好地与组织，可以帮助提供更清洁的水，包括美国环保署沟通。 此外，为了降低有毒物质的水平，CEC（在环境科学和环境保护局的支持下） 工程[ESE]项目3和4），将与一个非营利组织，教导明天的领导者 在工业化学中采用减少和防止环境污染的策略。具体目标 3是支持使用将由ESE项目3和4开发的技术来执行公民 科学和提供过滤设备的社区。数据的身份和水平的N- 亚硝胺将由CEC通过公民科学项目与社区成员合作收集。 关于N-亚硝胺水平的数据将与其他项目和核心的数据相结合， 风险评估。CEC还将帮助部署一种新型的过滤装置，以破坏N-亚硝胺。通过 通过提供过滤设备，让人们了解水中的成分，CEC将减少 饮用水中有害化学品的数量和毒性。