Summer Mentorship in Environmental Health Sciences for High School and Undergradu

在过去的十年里，人们对增加环境健康研究的兴趣和需求稳步增长。为了满足这一需求，国家环境健康科学研究所（NIEHS）已经为未来环境健康科学家的数量增加制定了目标。为此，宾夕法尼亚大学暑期研究项目短期教育体验的重点将有助于使选定的本科生和高中生接触到以下领域： 环境健康科学通过指导，课程和实地经验。该计划代表了来自环境毒理学卓越中心的教职员工的合作，这是一项跨学科研究计划，由教务长办公室赞助的宾夕法尼亚大学高中生暑期导师计划，以及来自医学，护理和艺术与科学学院的教师。该计划将提供环境和公共卫生方面的教学经验，并在与肺部和气道疾病，内分泌和生殖干扰，基因-环境相互作用和 氧化应激

The interest in and need for increased environmental health research has steadily grown during the past decade. To address this need, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has established goals for increased numbers of tomorrow's environmental health scientists. To this end, the focus of the Short Term Educational Experience for Research summer program at the University of Pennsylvania will help to expose selected undergraduate and high school students to the field of environmental health science through mentorship, coursework, and field experience. This program represents a collaboration of faculty and staff from The Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology, a cross disciplinary research initiative, the Penn Summer Mentorship Program for High School Students sponsored by the Office of the Provost, and faculty from the School of Medicine, Nursing, and Arts & Sciences. The program will provide didactic experiences in environmental and public health and provide mentorship opportunities in the defined areas of environmental exposures and health effects associated with lung and airway disease, endocrine and reproduction disruption, gene-environment interactions and oxidative stress.