EDUCATION

USRA DSLS organizes and manages programs encompassing all levels of education, from elementary through postdoctoral fellowship. We have produced a wide variety of excellent educational products, including conference proceedings, abstract booklets, a biology course workbook specifically designed for engineers, a textbook for use as a supplement to high school science courses, and teaching materials for secondary school teachers and university faculty.

Teacher training and demonstration workshops based upon Human Physiology in Space: A Program for America, a secondary school text that builds life sciences curriculum around the results of actual space shuttle experiments are offered through the National Space Biomedical Research Institute.

DSLS Brown Bag Seminars

The DSLS Brown Bag Seminar series features talks on cutting edge biotechnology and astrobiology research of particular interest to life scientists. The setting is informal, and the audience is encouraged to bring a brown bag lunch; soft drinks and cookies are provided.

Thursday, May 22, 2008
Jeffrey W. Ryder, Ph.D.
USRA DSLS
Project Scientist, Exercise Countermeasures Project
NASA Johnson Space Center

Thursday, June 19, 2008, Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Ramona Gaza, Ph.D.
USRA DSLS
Space Radiation Analysis Group
NASA Johnson Space Center
“Radiation Dosimetry Results from the International Space Station”

USRA Berkner Room
3600 Bay Area Blvd.
Houston, Texas

Bioastronautics Speaker Seminar Series

The Bioastronautics Speaker Seminar Series has been established to offer seminars on cutting edge science and technology from noted speakers in the national life sciences community.

Click here for past bioastronautics speaker presentations.

Additional presentations will be announced as they are scheduled.

Aerospace Medicine Residency Program

The Division provides support for the Aerospace Medicine Residency Program sponsored by the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and the NASA Johnson Space Center. Residents participate in the accredited two-year multidisciplinary program that seeks to prepare specialty-trained physicians to become experts in space medicine and space biomedical research.

Aerospace Medicine Grand Rounds

Monthly Aerospace Medicine Grand Rounds seminars sponsored by the Aerospace Medicine Residency Program offer a productive information exchange for both the NASA life sciences community and the medical community. The timely presentations on aviation, aerospace medicine, and microgravity science are open to the public. The seminars are held at the Center for Advanced Space Studies and at UTMB’s Levin Hall in Galveston. Some of the recent seminars have been video teleconferenced from UTMB's Levin Hall and Open Gates Telecommunications Center to NASA Headquarters; NASA Johnson Space Center; NASA Kennedy Space Center; the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, the U.S. Army School of Aviation Medicine, the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute, the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Moscow, and the National University of Colombia in Bogotá.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Millard F. Reschke, Ph.D.
Neurosciences Laboratories
NASA Johnson Space Center

Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Marc O'Griofa, M.D.
University of Limerick, Ireland
CASPER : Sleep Research Aboard NEEMO

USRA Lecture Hall
3600 Bay Area Blvd.
Houston, Texas

*Credit for one hour of Continuing Medical Education will be given for participation in Aerospace Medicine Grand Rounds. For more information about Grand Rounds, contact Kay Nute (nute@dsls.usra.edu).

Aerospace Medicine Grand Rounds Archive

Aerospace Medicine Grand Rounds presentations, since April 25, 2000, are archived at this site. CME will not be offered for viewing the presentation on the Internet.

2003 Summer Short Course, “Basic Biology for Engineers”

A new course designed to emphasize the principles of biology for the engineers who design research equipment for the International Space Station was presented August 11–16, 2003 at the NASA Ames Research Center. Follow this link to additional course information.

Links to Education and Outreach Sites

Aerospace Medical Association
OBPR Education Resources
Space Biology

Last updated
May 5, 2008