A strength of the environmental toxicology graduate program at Cornell is the breadth of training that is available to students. Education in environmental toxicology is multidisciplinary, drawing substantially from the basic disciplines of chemistry, biological and biomedical sciences such as biochemistry, genetics, physiology, nutrition, ecology and statistics. As a land-grant institution, Cornell has a long record of applying basic research directly to the solution of practical problems.
Research extends from laboratories and field sites into the classroom and beyond to the community.
Students in the program come from many backgrounds with women and men in approximately equal numbers. About twenty percent of students belong to minorities or come from foreign countries. Almost half of the students entering the program in environmental toxicology have had job experience. Maturity, a sense of responsibility and the ability to work independently characterize the most successful graduate students in the program. Once here, they become specialists with solid backgrounds in at least two and, frequently, several disciplines.