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Final Progress Reports: Columbia University: Training Core

Superfund Research Program

Training Core

Project Leader: Pam Factor-Litvak
Grant Number: P42ES010349
Funding Period: 2000 - 2011

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Final Progress Reports

Year:   2010  2005 

The research projects in the Columbia University SRP have served as a rich training ground for students and postdoctoral fellows. In the past year, the roster of trainees has grown to its largest size ever. Research training has been provided to 11 undergraduates, eight doctoral students, and six postdoctoral fellows, and six additional students have graduated with doctoral degrees in either Environmental Health Sciences (2) or Earth Science (4). Collectively, the trainees have made enormous contributions to the overall success of Columbia's program. The PI of the Training Core has provided guidance to many of the trainees and has been deeply involved in strategizing the research designs of many of the doctoral students' dissertation projects.

All of the students actively participate in a monthly seminar series, as well as off-campus retreats with the External Advisory Board. Modest funding from this Core also supported a special course in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), taught by Mark Becker (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) at the Mailman School of Public Health. Besides the monthly Superfund Seminar Series, the Training Core also participated in the Annual Granville H. Sewell Distinguished Lecture in Environmental Health Sciences, which this year featured Dr. Howard Frumkin, now the Dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Washington, who spent a day with the trainees prior to giving his keynote seminar on the topic of Climate and Health.

In addition, the Training Core continued to offer trainees participation in a web-based course on “Hazardous Waste and Public Health” during the summer semester, which can be done by anyone with a computer and Internet access from any location and which proved highly successful in past years. The course includes practical case studies in managing hazardous-waste issues as problem-solving exercises for the participants.

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