Incorporating an Environmental Research Project Across Three STEM Courses: A Collaboration between Ecology, Organic Chemistry, and Analytical Chemistry Students

摘要

Our collaborative research and integrated teaching programs focus on understanding chemical dynamics, ecological impacts, and human health risks posed by pyrethroid pesticides in aquatic ecosystems. We accomplish this in our courses by designing laboratory projects in which our undergraduates participate in field sampling, chemical analyses, and laboratory experiments that advance our research goals. This approach involves the research groups of three faculty and scores of students enrolled in Ecology, Organic Chemistry Lab Ⅲ, and Instrumental Analysis annually. We have designed the project, in part, to demonstrate to our students the benefits of collaborating across disciplines. In this contribution, we aim to describe how this project can serve as a model for faculty who are interested in developing a similar approach.