This course examines current advances in environmental health science via lectures from UMass faculty with research programs related to environmental health, UMass PhD students in the EHS program, as well as visiting scholars. Seminar topics will change from week to week and will include topics such as pollution, exposure assessments, mechanistic toxicology, environmental health policy, environmental epidemiology, and others.

This seminar will introduce students to the new field of environmental epigenetics. Through videos and discussion of recent research papers, students will learn how the environment (nutrition, chemicals, psychosocial stress) can shape our genetic makeup and ultimately influence disease susceptibility.

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Students choose a topic to research on their own under the guidance of a faculty advisor who will then grade the final written report.

Students choose a topic to research on their own under the guidance of a faculty advisor who will then grade the final written report.

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This course provides an introduction to the field of multi-media (e.g. air, water, soil, food) environmental health risk assessment and how society incorporates risk assessment findings into regulations and policy.

Concepts of control methods used by environmental health and engineering practitioners. Topics include water, wastewater, solid wastes, food sanitation, vector control, housing, and accident control measures.

Students choose a topic on their own under the guidance of a faculty adviser who will then grade the final written report

The goal of this course is to prepare students with necessary computing skills for a career as a statistician or data analyst/scientist. By the end of this course, you should be able to use various tools to extract data from different sources(structure or unstructured), and transform them into forms that are ready for analysis and modeling. You will also be able to build web based tools to deliver your data products using R Shiny.