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This course introduces different technologies for harvesting and storing solar energy, the most abundant source of renewable energy on earth. This course will cover ways to generate electricity (solar cells) and molecular fuels (biofuels and solar fuels) and the key solutions for short and long-term solar energy storage, including batteries, supercapacitors, electrolyzers, and fuel cells. For each topic, we will cover the existing and emerging technologies, how they work, what role they fill in the energy transition, and how they need to be improved. Students will give a final presentation where they cover a technology or proposed technology of their choosing.

Decoding Academia: Power, Hierarchies, and Transforming Institutions is a new course focused on helping students understand the "hidden curriculum" (i.e., unwritten rules that influence success) in academia as well as pathways toward change. Topics include faculty governance, funding models, publishing, incentive structures, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Content centers largely on the social, health, and computational sciences but enrollment is not restricted. Format features lectures, discussions, practical assignments, and student presentations. See course website: decodingacademia.org

This discussion focused Ethics, Science, and Society interactive course will engage Immunology graduate students and faculty in learning and conversations on topics in responsible research (including animal subjects, authorship, collaboration, conflicts of interest, data management, human subjects, mentor-mentee relationships, peer review, publication, research misconduct, and social responsibility) and diversity in science, informed by readings, case studies, individual reflections, and more. Some of the driving themes in this course include: what it means to do research well and how to and not to achieve this, why doing research well and with integrity is important, and who are researchers currently and who should they be. Prerequisite: MED 255

This discussion focused Ethics, Science, and Society interactive course will engage Immunology graduate students and faculty in learning and conversations on topics in responsible research (including animal subjects, authorship, collaboration, conflicts of interest, data management, human subjects, mentor-mentee relationships, peer review, publication, research misconduct, and social responsibility) and diversity in science, informed by readings, case studies, individual reflections, and more. Some of the driving themes in this course include: what it means to do research well and how to and not to achieve this, why doing research well and with integrity is important, and who are researchers currently and who should they be. Prerequisite: MED 255

Forum. How to identify and approach ethical dilemmas that commonly arise in biomedical research. Issues in the practice of research such as in publication and interpretation of data, and issues raised by academic/industry ties. Contemporary debates at the interface of biomedical science and society regarding research on stem cells, bioweapons, genetic testing, human subjects, and vertebrate animals. Completion fulfills NIH/ADAMHA requirement for instruction in the ethical conduct of research. Prerequisite: research experience recommended. Intensive format, 1-day course, register for only one section. One pre-class assignment required.

A study of measles (until recently one of the leading causes of death in the world and the most contagious disease agent ever studied) and its relatives in the paramyxovirus family, including mumps, parainfluenza viruses, hendra, and nipah, as well as a number of important animal pathogens. Investigates the nature of viruses using the paramyxoviruses as a paradigm. Topics include: the history of this devastating group of pathogens; basic aspects of paramyxovirus taxonomy and molecular virology; viral epidemiology, emergence, and eradication, including the pioneering studies of Peter Panum; the use, misuse, and abuse of science; the interactions between pathogen and host and how this interplay leads to disease, including the appearance of a bizarre brain complication with 100% mortality; the politics and economics of infection; how a putative link between the measles vaccine and autism entered the public eye, and how it refuses to disappear despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Lectures, discussion, student presentations. No science background necessary.

Since 2020, COVID has transformed the world medically, socially, politically, scientifically, economically, and psychologically. Even as innovative vaccines and medications have helped to mitigate the most damaging impacts of this pandemic, ongoing contagion fueled by continued viral evolution and waning immunity make it clear that humanity will be confronting these challenges for the foreseeable future. The course will provide a conceptual framework for understanding the pandemic. We will use this framework to discuss news-worthy updates as they occur - emphasizing virologic, immunologic, risk-benefit, and policy-focused perspectives. Class time will be devoted to didactic lectures, expert panels, and student discussion.

This course will provide the physician assistant student with an introduction to qualitative manuscripts, describing types of qualitative research methods, and discussing their own tentative qualitative research questions/designs.Prerequisites: Enrollment in the Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies program

This course will provide the physician assistant students with an introduction to qualitative research methods, specifically data analysis, with significant time focused on thematic analysis coding. This course focuses on analysis of students' individual qualitative data sets. Prerequisites: successful completion of PAS 255. Additionally, students should not enroll in this course unless they will have IRB approval and qualitative data available for analysis prior to the start of the course.