PULSE
is funded by the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA)
Program, a component of the National Council of Research Resources
(NCRR) within
the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
SEPA grants bring together “biomedical and behavioral researchers,
educators, community groups, and other interested organizations in
partnerships to create and disseminate programs that give K-12 students
and teachers and the general public a better understanding of life
sciences”. For a fact sheet about the SEPA Program, click
here.
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Students
learn how arsenic gets into the drinking water and
about the dangers of exposure to people living in affected
regions.
Students
learn how city
development, air movement & air
quality all contribute to respiratory illnesses. 
Students
explore disease & its relationship to literature
& the movement
of people, trade & epidemics during the medieval
period. 
Students
investigate how revolutions, conflict, change,
and resource management have
impacted
human health.
Students
develop an understanding of basic environmental toxicology
while addressing basic chemical and physical
properties of substances.
Students
read research of environmental health scientists & do speeches concerning
community based health related issus.
.Students
simulate an energy task force meeting,
which includes environmental health factors as
a primary consideration. 
Students
use understandings of impact of the environment on human
health
gained in the physical sciences and other
science classes to present a moot court case. 
Using
the issue of skin cancer, students learn about the role
of government oversight
in clinical studies. 
