PROGRAM IN COMPARATIVE AND ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY
GENERAL INFORMATION
The Cornell Program in Comparative and Environmental Toxicology is a broadly based inter-college program facilitated by the Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology (ICET). ICET serves as a focal point for all research, teaching, and cooperative extension activities in the broad interdisciplinary area of environmental toxicology at Cornell and encourages the development of collaborative programs between faculty members in many university departments.
Graduate Studies
The major in the graduate Field of Environmental Toxicology promotes training leading to the M.S. or Ph.D. degrees. It provides both breadth and depth in environmental toxicology and related disciplines. The program offers a combination of research and didactic training that is designed to prepare students for solving the problems of modern toxicology. Specialization tracks include cellular and biochemical toxicology; nutritional and food toxicology; ecotoxicology and environmental chemistry; and risk assessment, management, and public policy. Research of the faculty associated with the program is focused on the interactions of drugs, pesticides, and other potentially hazardous environmental agents with a wide variety of living organisms (including humans) and with the ecosystems with which these organisms are associated.
Courses
Courses in environmental toxicology are cosponsored by the university academic departments and are open to all graduate students and to those undergraduates who have permission of the instructor. The titles and numbers of these courses are listed below, and details of course content are provided elsewhere in the catalog under the listings of the cosponsoring department. Further information concerning the program and the development of new courses may be obtained through the graduate faculty representative, 213 Rice Hall (telephone: 255-8008).
Tox 370 Pesticides and the Environment (Entomology 370)
Tox 437 Oncogenic Cancer Viruses (Biological Sciences 437)
Tox 528 Pharmacology (Veterinary Medicine 528)
Tox 607 Ecotoxicology (Natural Resources 607)
Tox 610 Introductory Chemical and Environmental Toxicology (Food Science 610)
Tox 611 Molecular Toxicology (Nutritional Sciences 611)
Tox 621 Clinical Veterinary Toxicology (Veterinary Medicine 621 )
Tox 640 Principles of Toxicological Pathology (Veterinary Medicine 640)
Tox 660 Safety Evaluation in Public Health (VetPR 660)
Tox 680 Hazardous Waste Toxicology
Tox 690 Insect Toxicology and Insecticidal Chemistry (Entomology 690)
Tox 698 Current Topics in Environmental Toxicology (Nutritional Sciences 700, NatRes 698, Ag & Bio Eng 698)
Tox 702 Seminar in Toxicology
Tox 751 Professional Responsibilities of Toxicologists (Biological Sciences 751)
Tox 899 Master's Thesis and Research
Tox 999 Doctoral Thesis and Research
