Summer Mentorship in Environmental Health Sciences for High School and Undergradu

描述（由申请人提供） 在过去十年中，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，在宾夕法尼亚大学的短期教育体验研究夏季计划的重点将有助于通过导师，课程和实地经验暴露选定的本科生和高中生环境健康科学领域。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，护理和艺术学院的教师&科学。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相关的环境暴露和健康影响的定义领域提供指导机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) 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.