Mission:
conduct basic science research that leads to improved understanding of the general biological principles guiding eukaryotic and prokaryotic cellular responses to environmental stress.
Aims:
Assess the exposure of the Houston population to platinum group elements discharged in automobile exhaust.
Build computer models able to predict the activities and pathways of specific stress-related molecules within exposed cells.
Strengthen the environmental toxicology PhD program, housed within the Department of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Sciences, by providing financial support to minority PhD students. A mentoring initiative for graduate students to support their course preparation, effective teaching and learning, grant writing, and research will be developed. One of the program’s other major objectives is to embrace the K-12 community and undergraduate students through summer internship programs to advance research-based learning experiences and motivate them to pursue advanced degrees in STEM fields.