Connecting Students to Environmental Health Research

描述（由申请人提供） 本提案是对RFA-ES-06-09的回应，约翰霍普金斯布隆伯格公共卫生学院环境健康科学系正在提交本科生和高中生环境健康科学研究短期教育经验（STEER）。该项目的标题是”将学生与环境卫生研究人员联系起来“。“本提案中的学生包括本科生和高中生。这项拟议的短期教育经验研究计划的中心目标是将本科生和高中生与约翰霍普金斯彭博公共卫生学院参与环境卫生研究的调查人员联系起来。这项研究的范围可以从分子水平的研究到基于人口的研究。次要目标包括：1）提高这些学生对环境健康领域研究职业机会的认识; 2）通过接受来自不同学院和大学以及高中的学生，增加了解这些职业机会的学生人数; 3）增加申请与环境健康相关的本科或研究生课程的学生人数。 除了他们的研究经验，学生将参加每周一次的研讨会和期刊俱乐部在环境健康和参观各种核心设施。这个夏天的研究经验的最终活动将是学生，与他们的导师一起，将开发他们的研究的摘要和海报，专门为这个程序的研究研讨会。 所有教师，学生和工作人员在部门将被邀请参加，所有与会者将得到一个抽象的小册子的副本。 作为调查员评价计划的一部分，他们将进行离职调查。 调查人员特别感兴趣的是了解学生在进入该项目时与结束该项目时对环境健康的了解。 他们还将询问他们对科学方法的了解，以及参与之前和之后的方法。长期目标是评估通过该计划的学生是否进入本科科学课程（高中生的情况下），或科学研究生课程（本科生的情况下），特别是在环境健康相关学科。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) This proposal is in response to RFA-ES-06-09, Short Term Educational Experiences for Research (STEER) in the Environmental Health Sciences for Undergraduates and High School Students is being submitted by the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The title of the project is" Connecting Students to Environmental Health Researchers." Students in this proposal include both undergraduate and high school students. The central goal of this proposed program for short term educational experiences for research is to connect undergraduate and high school students with investigators involved in environmental health research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. This research could range from studies at the molecular level up to population- based studies. Secondary goals include: 1) increasing the awareness of these students of the opportunities for research careers in the field of environmental health; 2) increasing the number of students aware of these career opportunities by accepting students from different colleges and universities and high schools; and 3) increasing the number of students that apply to undergraduate or graduate programs relevant to environmental health. In addition to their research experience, students will attend a weekly seminar and journal club in environmental health and tour various core facilities. The culminating activity of this summer research experience will be that the students, in conjunction with their mentors, will develop an abstract and poster of their research for a Research Symposium dedicated for this program. All faculty, students and staff in the Department will be invited to attend and all attendees will be given a copy of an abstract booklet. As part of the investigators' evaluation plan, they will include an exit survey. The investigators are particularly interested in learning what the students' knowledge about environmental health was when they entered the program versus when they ended the program. They will also query about their knowledge of the scientific method, and methods before and after participating. The longer-term goal is to assess whether the students that come through this program enter into undergraduate science programs (in the case of high school students), or science graduate programs (in the case of undergraduates), particularly in an environmental health related discipline.