Core G: Training Core

跨学科研究是现代生物医学和物理科学努力的主要重点，而促进跨学科研究是美国国立卫生研究院路线图的重要组成部分。以生物医学为导向的环境跨学科研究是本中心/计划的主题，因此需要一个交叉培训计划来支持超级基金中心的教育活动。培训核心的作用是提供一个基础设施和环境，促进博士后和研究生在高度跨学科的颗粒物质表面领域的发展。重要的是，培训核心的目标是侧重于研究生和博士后的招聘和多学科教育。将使我们能够实现目标的提案目标包括：提供处理培训核心业务的支持人员；促进教职员工和参与者之间的互动；通过教师领导和参与核心目标和目标来管理培训核心；通过我们正在进行的研究计划和支线学校的教职员工/学生研讨会，为未来的博士后研究员和研究生建立积极的招聘计划，其中包括一组历史上的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)；从我们现有的博士项目中招收新的研究生，这些项目成功地从所有群体中招募和保留了科学家；通过超级基金团队增加博士后和研究生的团队合作、自我激励/自立能力和研究知识/技能的广度；为学生提供一套核心研究生课程；通过使用研究轮换计划加强跨学科培训。这一超级基金提案的培训核心将导致对正在攻读哲学博士学位的学生或继续深造的学生进行培训，这些学生将在与颗粒物相关的空气污染及其后续的健康影响这一高度跨学科的领域接受培训，这是由生物医学研究人员所研究的。来自不同种族、性别和科学背景的学生将接受交叉培训，以便他们成为环境劳动力的宝贵贡献者。

Interdisciplinary research is a major emphasis of modern biomedical and physical science efforts, and enabling interdisciplinary research is a major part of the NIH Roadmap. Biomedically-oriented, environmental interdisciplinary research is the theme of this Center/Program, and as such, requires a cross-cutting training program in support of the Superfund Center's educational activities. The role of the Training Core is to provide an Infrastructure and environment that promotes the development of post-doctoral and graduate students in the highly interdisciplinary field of surfaces of particulate matter. Importantly, the Training Core has Aims that focus on recruiting and multidisciplinary education of graduate and postdoctoral students. Proposal Objectives that will allow us to achieve the Aims include: offer a support staff that handles dally operations of the Training Core; foster interactions between faculty and participants; manage the Training Core via faculty leadership and involvement in the Core aims and objectives; establish an aggressive recruiting program for prospective post-doctoral fellows and graduate students through our on-going research programs, and faculty/student seminars at feeder schools, which include a group of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); recruit new graduate students from our existing PhD programs that are successful with recruiting and retention of scientists from all groups; increase postdoctoral and graduate student team-playing, self-motivation/reliance and breadth of research knowledge/skills by use of Superfund Teams; provide a set of core graduate courses for students; and augment the cross-interdisciplinary training through the use of a research rotation program. The Training Core of this Superfund Proposal will result in the training of students pursuing a doctor of philosophy degree or those furthering their post-graduate education in the highly interdisciplinary area of particle-associated air pollution and subsequent health effects of said pollution as studied by biomedical researchers. Students from diverse ethnic, gender, and scientific back grounds will be cross-trained so that they will become valuable contributors to the environmental workforce.