Connecting Students to Environmental Health Research

描述(由申请人提供) 根据RFA-ES-06-09，约翰霍普金斯大学彭博公共卫生学院环境健康科学系正在为本科生和高中生提供环境健康科学方面的短期教育研究经验(STEER)。该项目的标题是“将学生与环境健康研究人员联系起来”。这项提案中的学生包括本科生和高中生。这项拟议的短期研究教育体验项目的中心目标是将本科生和高中生与约翰霍普金斯大学彭博公共卫生学院环境健康研究的研究人员联系起来。这项研究的范围可以从分子水平的研究到基于群体的研究。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和高中的学生，增加意识到这些职业机会的学生数量；3)增加申请与环境健康相关的本科生或研究生课程的学生数量。除了他们的研究经验，学生们还将参加每周一次的环境健康研讨会和期刊俱乐部，并参观各种核心设施。这次暑期研究体验的最终活动将是，学生们将与他们的导师一起，为专门针对该项目的研究研讨会制定一份研究摘要和海报。所有教职员工和学生都将被邀请参加，所有参与者都将获得一本摘要小册子。作为调查人员评估计划的一部分，他们将包括一项离职调查。研究人员特别感兴趣的是了解学生在进入项目时和结束项目时对环境健康的了解情况。他们还将询问自己对科学方法的了解情况，以及参与前后的方法。更长期的目标是评估通过这个项目的学生是否进入了本科理科课程(对于高中生)或理科研究生课程(对于本科生)，特别是在与环境健康相关的学科。

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.