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SWEHSC Outreach Highlights Archives

8/31/2009
Biology Project Honored as Top Online Learning Resource
Routes of Exposure
The Chemicals and Human Health, found at http://coep.pharmacy.arizona.edu/curriculum/chh/index.html, toxicology Problem Sets and Tutorials are part of the Biology Project website.

8/18/2009
Understanding Environmental Risk Ranking and Prioritization
Choosing a Risk to Reduce - Gila River Indian Community
The dumping of solid waste in the Gila River Indian Community has been recognized as a major issue.

8/3/2009
Pre-college Interns get Head start for Science Careers
Drs. Monks and Brooks, SWEHSC members, host high school student Interns in five-week University of Arizona summer laboratory KEYS internship program designed to help produce future environmental health and biomedical scientists.

6/12/2009
KEYS Institute Finishes
KEYS Interns 2009
Top high school students to perform scientific research at UA, in the KEYS Internships, a collaboration between the College of Pharmacy, SWEHSC, and the BIO5 Institute

6/9/2009
Media Hit: COEC Sun Safety Activity for PharmCamp on Fox 11
Fox11 did a brief video story about PharmCamp on their news broadcast Tuesday evening. It's posted on their Web site; here's the link courtesy of Fox 11, Tucson:

6/2/2009
Top High School Students coming to SWEHSC to conduct Environmental Health research
The UA News highlightes the KEYS program, which supports high school students in research internships

5/26/2009
Parent Night for the KEYS program
Parent Night KEYS May, 26 2009
About 50 people, students, parents, and family members, attended the annual parent night for the KEYS Program.

4/1/2009
SWEHSC Outreach Model Applied to Librarianship
COEC Intern Nicole Pagowsky
On April 1st of this year, SWEHSC's Marti Lindsey the outreach director, did a presentation on outreach at the Progressive Librarian's Guild meeting.

2/26/2009
SWEHSC Supports the Gila River CARE Project
Drs Klimecki, Lantz, Martinez, and Riley
SWEHSC Investigators Provide Lectures at the Gila River Indian Community Environmental Health Leadership Trainings - activities for the Community Action for a Renewed Environment

10/20/2008
Outreach Presents Effective Research Relationships with American Indian Communities
Marti Lindsey with Navajo rug
Marti Lindsey, outreach director for the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center, spoke on how researchers can better work with Native American communities at the NIEHS Core Centers annual meeting at the University of Pennsylvania.

10/15/2008
The TCE Contamination and Cleanup Curriculum Presented
Marti Lindsey - AZ Daily Star Reprint - Tucson TCE Problem
The final curriculum was presented to UCAB at the quarterly meeting.

8/1/2008
2008 KEYS Intern - Pre-pharmacy Student
Deana Molia
Deanna Molina didn’t realize livers could be so interesting until she started the KEYS internship the summer after she graduated from Salpointe Catholic High School, 2008.

7/31/2008
2008 Summer High School Research Internships have concluded
High School Student Interning at the University of Arizona
In 2008, the Outreach office co-sponsored in collaboration with BIO5 the 2nd Annual KEYS High School Internships.

7/25/2008
Pharm Campers Learn about UV Exposure and Skin Cancer
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Using a demonstration with UV sensitive Frisbees, COEC taught middle school students the importance of protecting their skin from the sun.

2/1/2008
Applications for High School Student Internships Open
The KEYS Program offers research internships with SWEHSC investigators in pharmacology, toxicology and environmental health

11/5/2007
Collaboration Creates Poster for TCE Treatment Plant Dedication
High School students taught with the new TCE (Trichloroethylene) Contamination and Cleanup Curriculum will present at the dedication of the new TCE treatment plant at Tucson Airport with their teacher, one of the teachers who helped create the curriculum.

10/6/2007
Lead Poisoning Awareness
Thanks to a group of COP students studying Health Communication with Marti Lindsey, director of community outreach for the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center, many desert dwellers now know how to test for lead in toys and candy.

7/13/2007
High School Student Research Internships
Pharmacy Student conducting laboratory research
Nine students are enrolled during the summer of 2007 in the KEYS internship with four assigned to researchers of the SWEHSC.


   

 

 

 

 

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