University of Pittsburgh Opportunities Graduate School of Public Health
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience in Environmental Health Sciences
The Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Environmental Health Sciences is designed to provide stimulating and rewarding research opportunities for undergraduates considering graduate education. The goal of the program is to provide students the opportunity for a hands-on research experience with faculty and graduate students the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.Environmental health is a multidisciplinary science directed towards understanding the mechanistic basis of acute and chronic human diseases or disease susceptibility (e.g. genetic or physiologic) caused by interaction with environmental agents or contaminants. Current research in the department includes: respiratory and cardiovascular toxicology, free radical biochemical toxicology, gene/environment interactions, environmental exposure assessment, and computational and risk assessment approaches to environmental health. For information regarding faculty research interests please see our website (http://www.eoh.pitt.edu).
Each intern will conduct an independent research project under the guidance of a faculty member. Interns will meet regularly with their faculty mentor to design experiments, review daily journals, discuss research progress, and collaboratively solve research challenges. At the end of the 10-week program, each intern will present their research findings to faculty members, staff and current graduate students. Participants will receive a stipend for the program. Program runs from Monday, May 21, 2012 to Friday, July 27, 2012.***Applications are available on our website www.eoh.pitt.edu
Applications are due by March 31, 2012.
