RPI Course focues on Asthma

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is currently offering a course studying asthma called Asthmatic Spaces - New York. The course studies and publishes real time research findings about asthma and its affect on public health throughout the state. Kim Fortun, the professor who created the class, chose asthma as the subject because:

...of its impact on public health, because of its scientific complexity, and
because of the way it draws together people with many different kinds of
expertise — in health care, basic science, air quality assessment, building
design, genetics, and many other areas

Students will also contribute to The Asthma Files, a public site for all research asthma related which is updated by professors, researchers, doctors, activists, etc.

quote taken from: http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2699