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Research Proposal Development

This course focuses on writing a fundable research proposal that directly addresses criteria specific to the funding agency. Emphasis will be on preparation on an NIH pre-doctoral fellowship proposal. Topics covered include choosing the appropriate grant, writing the actual proposal following all guidelines, choosing collaborators, understanding review criteria and revising.

Engineering Academic Success

This 1-hour, graded course is designed to assist students in developing and utilizing study skills and learning strategies needed to reach their academic goals. It also includes exploration of careers related to target majors, as well as identification of relevant campus resources designed to enhance success.

Live Streaming Events And Interactivity For Arts Organizations

Live streaming video on a variety of social media sites has become a popular method of promoting a brand, enabling users to share content, and creating a high level of engagement with patrons and donors. Yet, with this tool, arts organizations grapple with a wide range of issues, including quality, purpose, and relevance. This course will explore how arts organizations can leverage this tool to increase brand awareness and provide an engaging platform for patrons, donors, and others to interact with the organization and its products.

Applied Animal Behavior And Welfare

Presenting the nature of and behavioral categories for agricultural, companion, and exotic animals. Understanding learning theory and animal cognition to enhance fair training and safe/effective handling methods. Recognizing abnormal and stereotypic behaviors. Assessing behavioral indicators of welfare status. Acknowledging contemporary welfare issues.

Biofuels And Bioproducts

This course explores the history and current status of biofuels and bioproducts development, the policy drivers and stakeholders, current industrial players, mainstream processing technologies, and current and future research themes. Expanding the technical aspects, this course will cover biochemical conversion techniques for producing bioethanol, biobutanol, biodiesel, biogas, and other advanced biofuels/bioproducts and thermochemical conversion techniques towards syngas, bio-oil, and biochar.

Food Fight: Public Health And Nutrition In The 21st Century

Linked to many of the biggest health challenges of our time - heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancers, and more - overeating represents one of the leading preventable causes of premature death, both domestically and increasingly around the globe. Understanding why people overeat requires an understanding of the food system - the production, distribution, and consumption of food.

Drug Delivery: Advanced Pharmaceutics

Drug delivery is a multidisciplinary field that combines the expertise of engineering/pharmaceutics and medicine to design better therapies for a wide variety of diseases. This course will provide a solid foundation on the mathematical principles that underlie all drug delivery technologies. These principles will then be integrated into several delivery routes and dosage forms, including pulmonary, oral and transdermal. This combination of fundamentals and case study applications will provide a broad understanding of the origins and current state of the art in drug delivery.

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