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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Are you looking to the get a Ph.D. in an interdisciplinary graduate program that focuses on urban environmental challenges? Consider applying to the Boston University
Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health (BU URBAN), an NSF-funded research traineeship (NRT) that trains Ph.D. students to address urban environmental challenges. This NRT program trains Ph.D. students using an interdisciplinary approach
that fuses Biogeoscience and Environmental Health, with an emphasis on data analysis, field research methods, and engagement and communication with policy makers, the private sector, and the broader community.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Trainees design research projects whose results are scientifically transformative and useful for decision-makers. Research topics include, but are not limited to, assessments
of greenhouse gas fluxes, evaluation of air and water pollution, and understanding the threats to human health from urban heat waves or other extreme weather events. Trainees participate in workshops focused on science communication, research methods, and
city governance and conduct internships with government offices, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and/or the private sector.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Participating faculty from the Biogeoscience Program (Departments of Biology and Earth & Environment) have expertise in biogeochemistry in terrestrial and aquatic systems,
microbial and plant ecology, hydrology, geomorphology, <span class="spelle">biogeophysics</span>, and remote sensing. Participating faculty from the Department of Environmental Health have expertise in epidemiology, exposure science, risk assessment, and toxicology,
with applications that span air pollution and climate change, chemicals in soil, water and food, as well as non-chemical hazards such as noise, heat, and social stressors.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">If you are interested in applying, apply to one of the participating departments: Biology, Earth and Environment, Environmental Health, or Mathematics and Statistics,
and mention your interest in the BU URBAN program. Please see </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><a href="http://sites.bu.edu/urban/apply/" target="_BLANK羜"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://sites.bu.edu/urban/apply/</span></a></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">
for more information.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Contact Laura Schifman (Program Manager;
<a href="mailto:Schifman@bu.edu">Schifman@bu.edu</a>) or Pamela <span class="spelle">
Templer</span> (Program Director) with any questions. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222222">Laura Schifman, Ph.D.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222222">Program Manager</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222222">BU URBAN – Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222222">Department of Biology</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222222">Department of Earth and Environment</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222222">5 Cummington Mall 431</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222222">Boston University</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222222">[d] +1 (617) 353-5563</span></p>
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