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Agenda-Environmental-Health-Undergraduate-Curriculum-Development

 
Wednesday, July 22, 2009


11:30 am Opening Comments and Introduction of Participants
Peggy Geimer, Arch Chemicals, Roundtable Member


12:00 pm Workshop Goals
William Sullivan, University of Illinois, Roundtable Member


12:15 pm Working Lunch and Discussion
What is Environmental Health: Why Integrate Environmental Health into Undergraduate Curricula?
Charles Treser, University of Washington
Undergraduate Environmental Health
ernard Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh, Roundtable Member


1:30 pm One Health: Opportunities to Integrate Environmental Health at Undergraduate Level
Hugh Mainzer, National Center for Environmental Health / Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry


2:00 pm Classical Toxicology: Opportunities to Integrate Environmental Health or Undergraduates
Bernard Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh, Roundtable Member


2:30 pm Discussion


3:00 pm Break


3:15 pm Built Environment: Opportunities to Integrate Environmental Health for Undergraduates
Howard Frumkin, National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic
Substance and Disease Registry, Roundtable Member


3:45 pm Discussion


4:05 pm Natural Environment: Opportunities to Integrate Environmental Health for Undergraduates
William Sullivan, University of Illinois, Roundtable Member


4:35 pm Discussion


5:00 pm Individual Faculty Assignments and Available Resources to Assist Faculty
Caryl Waggett, Allegheny College
William Sullivan, University of Illinois, Roundtable Member


5:30 pm Break


5:45 pm Working Reception
(books, electronic case studies, and networking)
Brooks Cole│Wadsworth Cengage Learning
Harvard University Press
Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Jossey-Bass/Wiley




Thursday, July 23, 2009


7:45 am Meet in the Hotel Lobby for Transportation to CDC


8:30 am Working Breakfast


9:00 am Core Competencies in Undergraduate Environmental Health
Chuck Treser, University of Washingtonn


9:30 am Integration of Environmental Health into Existing Curriculum
The Challenge Cycle
William Sullivan, University of Illinois, Roundtable Member


10:00 am Discussion


10:30 am Break


10:45 am Components of Effective Case Studies
Case Study: Biodiversity, Climate Change and Human Health
Nora Bynum, American Museum of Natural History and Duke University


11:45 am Working Lunch (Discussion amongst participants and networking)


12:45 pm Integrating Undergraduate Research into Environmental Health Classes
Example: “Healthy Homes-Healthy Children:” Integrating Undergraduate
Research and Community Based-Research into Classes of All Types
Caryl Waggett, Allegheny College


1:45 pm Discussion—Additional models of effective practices


2:15 pm Breakout Session—Faculty work individually on courses integrating environmental health

Identify goals, available resources, specific activities, and outcomes
Caryl Waggett, Allegheny College
William Sullivan, University of Illinois, Roundtable Member



3:00 pm Breakout Session—Faculty work in small groups and provide thoughtful feedback on curricular innovations
Richard Gragg, Florida A&M University, facilitator
Daryl Moorhead, University of Toledo, facilitator


4:15 pm Break


4:30 pm Depart for Field Trip to Atlantic Station
Field Trip to Integrate Learning with Local Resources


6:30 pm Working Dinner at the Geisha House


8:00 pm Return to Hotel


Friday, July 24, 2009


7:30-8:00 am Check out of Hotel


8:00 am Meet in the Hotel Lobby for Transportation to CDC


8:45 am Working Breakfast


9:15 am Presentation of Faculty-Developed Activities, Syllabi Enhancements and Modules

Set I
Caryl Waggett, Allegheny College
William Sullivan, University of Illinois, Roundtable Member
Richard Gragg, Florida A&M University
Daryl Moorhead, University of Toledo
Chuck Treser, University of Washington


10:30 am Break


10:45 am Presentations (continued), Set II

12:00 am Where do we go from here? Additional Resource Needs
Working Lunch and Closing Comments
William Sullivan, University of Illinois, Roundtable Member
Bernard Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh, Roundtable Member




PARTNERS

  • National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry at the CDC
  • The Council of Environmental Deans and Directors
  • American Museum of Natural History Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
  • National Council for Science and the Environment
  • Brooks Cole/Wadsworth Cengage Learning
  • Harvard University Press
  • Jones & Bartlett Publishers
  • Jossey-Bass/Wiley

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