Community Outreach Core

社区外展核心

• 批准号: 8884344
• 负责人: LARRY W ROBERTSON
• 金额: $ 0.08万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-05-12 至 2015-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8884344
• 关键词: Address; Adult; Area; Basic Science; Case Study; Chicago; Communities; Community Health; Community Outreach; Coupled; Data; Development; Economics; Education; Education and Outreach; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; Electronics; Hazardous Chemicals; Health; Home environment; Human; Human Resources; Illinois; Indiana; Individual; Internet; Learning Module; Location; Measurable; Measurement; Methods; Mission; Mississippi; Neighborhoods; Outcome; Polychlorinated Biphenyls; Recording of previous events; Relative (related person); Research; Resources; Risk; Rivers; Schools; Services; Source; Structure; Superfund; Toxic effect; Universities; Work; college; community college; empowered; improved; instructor; junior high school; literacy; meetings; member; operation; outreach; outreach program; programs; remediation; science education; social; teacher; tool; university student

The mission of the lowa Superfund Basic Research Program, Community Outreach Core (COC) is to address community concerns related to the sources, remediations and human impacts of hazardous chemicals, particularly PCBs, and to improve scientific literacy from the junior high to the adult level. To meet this mission, broad aims and specific objectives have been developed to facilitate coordinated activities between the COC personnel, the Community Advisory Boards and our partner schools in East Chicago, Indiana, Columbus Junction, lowa and Chicago, Illinois. The Community Advisory Board (CAB) in East Chicago feels that PCB contamination from industrial sources in the area is a potential community health issue. The dissemination of detailed PCB measurements in individuals, homes, schools and near the location of the soon to be constructed Confined Disposal Facility will empower the CAB to engage residents meaningfully. PCB contamination is currently of little concern to residents in Columbus Junction and Chicago, but CAB members and school officials in these communities are excited to be involved with the COC as a means to promote scientific literacy. With partner involvement, the COC will develop an Airborne PCB: Sources, Remediations, and Human Impacts science education module to be used in the classrooms of our partner schools and elsewhere. Additionally, the COC will develop a PCB Sustainability Case Study that will target teachers of first-year general education classes at colleges and universities. The case study method is an effective and well documented pedagogical tool and the PCB Sustainability Case Study will be widely distributed via the Electronic Hallway and by other internet teaching resource portals. Lastly, the COC will seek to engage Mississippi River communities that may be concerned with potential dredging of PCB-laden sediments for navigational purposes. Engaging additional communities will provide a means to expand the influence of the COC beyond our current partner list and determine if developed outreach materials have applicability on a wider, perhaps national, scale.

Lowa 超级基金基础研究计划社区外展核心 (COC) 的使命是解决社区对危险化学品（特别是多氯联苯）的来源、修复和人类影响的担忧，并提高从初中到成人的科学素养。为了完成这一使命，制定了广泛的目标和具体目标 促进 COC 人员、社区咨询委员会和我们在印第安纳州东芝加哥、洛瓦哥伦布枢纽和伊利诺伊州芝加哥的合作学校之间的协调活动。东芝加哥的社区咨询委员会 (CAB) 认为该地区工业来源的 PCB 污染是一个潜在的社区健康问题。详细PCB的传播 对个人、家庭、学校以及即将建成的密闭处置设施附近进行测量将使 CAB 能够与居民进行有意义的接触。目前，哥伦布交界处和芝加哥的居民不太关心 PCB 污染，但这些社区的 CAB 成员和学校官员很高兴能够作为 COC 的一员参与其中。 意味着提高科学素养。在合作伙伴的参与下，COC 将开发机载多氯联苯：来源、补救措施和人类影响科学教育模块，用于我们合作伙伴学校和其他地方的课堂。此外，COC 将针对大学一年级通识教育课程的教师开展 PCB 可持续发展案例研究 和大学。案例研究方法是一种有效且有据可查的教学工具，PCB 可持续性案例研究将通过电子走廊和其他互联网教学资源门户广泛分发。最后，COC 将寻求让密西西比河社区参与进来，这些社区可能关心出于航行目的疏浚富含多氯联苯的沉积物。让更多社区参与将提供一种方法，将 COC 的影响力扩大到我们当前的合作伙伴名单之外，并确定开发的外展材料是否适用于更广泛的（也许是全国性的）规模。