The
SWEHSC - COEP offers Investigators a new opportunity for
involvement with the COEP that reaches beyond traditional outreach
mechanisms, such as making presentations and materials development
or
review. COEP will highlight Investigator research through web pages
and
by "extended abstracts" of a key publication or research.
These "extended abstracts" will be suitably written for
the public,
undergraduates, or high school audiences.
Our goal is to have a wide
variety of detailed research descriptions available for the public
to
view, and for high school or college-level teachers to use in their
teaching. The COEP developed a lesson and an interactive web page
to
accompany the "extended abstracts" to show students how
scientists
communicate research results and the scientific process, and how
to read
scientific papers. The COEP is using the "extended abstract" approach
to
make the documents more interesting and understandable to our target
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As a scientist and researcher you can make a difference!
Get involved by following these four easy steps:
1. Review COEP opportunities for involvement
2. Decide how much time you can commit
3. Contact Marti or Rachel about getting
involved
4. Grasp the rewards of outreach by
providing mentoring, job shadowing,
internship experiences, and / or any of
the activities described below:
• Work with groups of teachers during an environmental health - biomedical
issues curriculum development during the summer of 2004.
Commitment: approximately 2 - 15 hours
Topics: Various, including but not limited to sanitation,
drug development, hazards materials, tobacco, government, ethics
and policy surrounding environmental health
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• Serve
on Advisory Boards for COEP or PULSE
Commitment: approximately 2 hours twice a year
• Review already developed curriculum for content accuracy.
Commitment: approximately 3-4 hours
Topics: Various including but not limited to cancer, toxicology,
air and water quality, and pesticides
• Connect with a teacher using one of our environmental health / toxicology
curricula and visit a classroom.
Commitment: approximately 3 hours
Topics: Toxicology, disease clusters, air
pollution
• Present your research to groups of teachers during summer workshops.
Commitment: no more than 5 hours
Topics: various, of your interest
• Share your research in a lab setting to groups of teachers during
the summer by conducting lab tours and/or doing presentations.
Commitment: approx. 2 hours
Topics: various, of your interest
• Help students see scientists as real people. Be interviewed for web
articles. Articles might be about what drew you to science, the
nature of science, etc.
Commitment: variable
• Work with COEP staff in writing articles for laypeople on your research
or current environmental health issues.
Commitment: 5-10 hours
Topics: various, of your interest
• Work with COEP staff to develop asthma and allergy related materials
or materials related to TCE exposure or clean up.
Commitment: variable
• Write Extended Abstracts of Research for upcoming COEP materials
on how to read a scientific paper
Commitment: 5-10 hours
Topics: various, of your interest
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