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EiJ Hazard: PFAS

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FOR ECOGOVLAB/CCEJP CURRICULUM: Use this as a research resource during 11th and 12th Grade Lesson 2 on Hazards.

What do you hope to get out of the lab?

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I hope to be involved in projects that aim to gather scientific evidence to inform environmental decision making and advocate for greater equity and justice in environmental governance. Through this work, I hope to learn the skills needed to engage in community based research and leverage community knowledge as expert knowledge. In my department, things are often siloed and issues are only seen through one perspective. I really want to gain more experience in collaborating with a wide array of stakeholders to come up with approaches to mitigate the environmental injustices experienced in under-resourced communities.

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xiaox

“I wrote about personality and how it might change on medication.”

“We need storytelling, to set us in the clinical moment, remind us of the variety of human experience and enrich our judgment.”

“In psychiatry — and the same is true throughout medicine — randomized trials are rarely large enough to provide guidance on their own.”

“It has been my hope that, while we wait for conclusive science, stories will preserve diversity in our theories of mind. “