A key feature is to provide students with a range of educational experiences. Objectives include:
Providing an effective educational medium for students to develop a rigorous understanding of important environmental processes.
Integrating minority and undergraduate researchers into the research experience.
Developing effective opportunities for students to present and disseminate research results.
Fostering student interaction with researchers from both industry and government labs.

Graduate Curriculum
New Course Development A new course, entitled 'Green' Chemistry: A Molecular Perspective, is being developed. Taught by CRAEMS PIs, this will emphasize minimization of hazardous materials associated with manufacture and use of chemical products. Emphasis will be placed on underlying principles, available approaches, and adverse environmental consequences of past technologies. Examples will be drawn from recent literature such as "green" oxidation of alcohols in water, design of macrocyclic H₂O₂ activators, and development of "greener" fire extinguishing agents. This new course complements the current Chemistry of Environmental Issues, which stresses chemical principles underpinning topical environmental concerns.

Graduate Education. JHU offers PhD students a unique opportunity to design their own curriculum with no formal course structure other than the requirement (in Chemistry) to take one year of courses (at four courses/semester). (DoGEE students take two years of courses). Furthermore, PhD students at JHU typically take several courses outside their home department to broaden their background. The existing structure thus provides an ideal opportunity for PhD students to prepare themselves for careers in environmental chemistry. A sample curriculum for a first year CRAEMS PhD student is shown below:

Fall	Mechanisms of Electron Transfer	Bio-Inorganic Chemistry	Chemistry of Environmental Issues	Physical Chem.
Spring	'Green' Chemistry: A Molecular Perspective (Chemistry)	Reaction Mechanisms in Environ. Organic Chemistry	Surface and Interface Chemistry	Computational Organic Chemistry

Other relevant courses at JHU include Aquatic Chemistry (DoGEE) as well as Experimental Methods in Environmental Engineering and Chemistry (DoGEE) plus courses in hydrology, geochemistry, and environmental engineering. Based on the breadth of research areas encompassed by the CRAEMS initiative, we anticipate that some of the Chemistry PhD students will take additional courses in their second year. Undergraduate and postgraduate researchers will be encouraged to attend relevant course offerings. An educational infrastructure will thus exist to provide students with a fluency in basic scientific principles and analytical techniques necessary for successful careers in an increasingly complex and interdependent scientific milieu.

Undergraduate Curriculum

Experimental Innovation in the Undergraduate Curriculum . To extend the outreach of the CRAEMS initiative to the wider undergraduate population, several new experiments will be incorporated into the chemistry lab curriculum at JHU. Emphasis will be placed on using environmental issues to develop fundamental chemical concepts. For example, in the advanced inorganic laboratory course, required for chemistry juniors and seniors, a waste recycling process based on microscale conversions of lead species can be used to introduce students to concepts of inorganic synthesis and transformation. A significant advantage in effective implementation of new undergraduate experiments derives from the fact that three of the CRAEMS PIs (Goldberg, Meyer and Fairbrother) teach the advanced chemistry lab classes at JHU.

Research Opportunities

An important aspect of this CRAEMS initiative is to provide research opportunities for students who are interested in Environmental Chemistry careers. Exciting opportunities exist for students who want to pursue a Ph.D degree. All tuition is paid and a comfortable salary is provided, on campus housing is available. If you are interested and are a chemistry major please contact

Ms Judith Dandro                  email: chem.grad.adm@jhu.edu
Academic Program Coordinator       Fax: 410-516-8420
The Johns Hopkins University           Phone: 41-516-7427
Department of Chemistry
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218

If you are a Environmental Engineer major, please check out DoGEE admission for further information.

Opportunities for undergraduates interested in summer research are available. A limited number of summer positions provide a salary, room and board will be awarded on a competitive basis. If you are interested please provide the following:

1. College transcripts
2. A resume
3. Approximately 250 word statement indicating career and research interests
4. The names and contact information of three references