Research for Environmental Justice
NRE 594 / CAAS 594
Credits: 3

Government agencies at all levels are collecting information for data analysis in order to make informed policy decisions. Public demands on federal, local and state agencies for information on toxic exposure in the air, water, food, soil, dust and their possible effects are increasing, particularly as thousands of new chemicals find their way onto the market. This information has been of value in agency decision making, yet a considerable amount is never analyzed. Agency personnel seldon have the time or interest to exhaust the analysis of their databases. The more pressing problems of policy implementation and enforcement takes precedence over data analysis. We, at the Universit of Michigan believe we can provide a service to government agencies and to graduate students and faculty interested in inproving their quantitative and analytical skills. This course will focus on graduate students with quantitative skills- skills to allow them to to sophisticated data analysis.