Summer Training Program in Environmental Health Sciences for Undergraduate Studen

描述(由申请人提供) 加州大学伯克利分校公共卫生学院的环境健康科学部建议继续为本科生提供STEER暑期研究实习，向他们介绍环境健康科学(EHS)领域，长期目标是增加在该领域攻读研究生学位和职业的有才华的学生数量。学生将从加州大学伯克利分校和其他美国学院和大学招生。鉴于当前Steer项目的声誉，调查人员预计将继续吸引来自全国各地的本科生。被录取的学生将与进行实习生感兴趣的环境健康研究的教师配对。学生实习生将与他们指定的教师导师和他们的研究团队成员一起进行研究，其中包括教职员工科学家、研究生和博士后学者。研究项目可能包括直接数据收集、文献回顾、实验室实验、基于计算机的建模和数据分析等。实习生还将参加每周两次的研讨会，包括由选定的教员介绍他们的研究计划和职业道路，以及关于科学伦理和IRB过程的演讲，流行病学导论，进入研究生院的建议，以及政府、非政府组织和行业代表的演讲。将对与职业和环境健康有关的地点进行实地考察，例如一个采石场和一个废水处理厂。被录取的学生还将参加撰写助学金建议书的指导，并将有机会在项目的最后一周提交模拟申请进行审查。最好的申请者将获得一份小奖。他们还将各自进行研究，并向该小组介绍当前环境健康方面的一个主题。在项目结束时，在为期一天的座谈中，每个实习生将使用视觉辅助工具，向其他实习生、教职员工和来宾介绍他们为期9周的项目。该计划将不断改进其招聘过程，以更好地接触少数族裔和弱势学生，并保持持续的评估过程，以确保该计划在五年的赠款期间不断改进。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The Division of Environmental Health Sciences, in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, proposes to continue its STEER summer research internship for undergraduate students to introduce them to the field of environmental health sciences (EHS), with the long-term aim of increasing the number of talented students who pursue graduate degrees and careers in this field. Students will be recruited from the University of California, Berkeley, and other U.S. colleges and universities. Given the reputation of the current STEER program, the investigators expect to continue to attract undergraduates from across the country. Students admitted to the program will be matched to faculty conducting environmental health research of interest to the intern. Student interns will conduct research with their designated faculty mentor and members of their research team, including staff scientists, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. Research projects may include direct data collection, literature reviewing, laboratory experiments, computer-based modeling, and data analysis, among others. The interns will also attend twice-weekly seminars, including presentations by selected faculty on their research programs and their career paths, as well as talks on ethics in science and the IRB process, an introduction to epidemiology, advice on getting into graduate school, and presentations by representatives of government, NGOs and industry. Field trips will be taken to sites of occupational and environmental health relevance, such as a stone quarry and a wastewater treatment plant. Students admitted to the program will also participate in instruction on writing a grant proposal and will have the opportunity to submit a mock application for review the final week of the program. A small prize will be awarded for the best application. They will also each research and present to the group a current topic in environmental health. At the end of the program, in a one-day colloquium, each intern, using visual aids, will make a presentation of their 9-week project to the other interns, faculty and guests. The Program will constantly seek to improve its recruitment process to better reach out to minority and disadvantaged students and maintain an ongoing evaluation process, to ensure the program continuously improves over the five-year period of the grant.