Core G: Training Core

跨学科研究是现代生物医学和物理科学努力的一个主要重点，使跨学科研究成为NIH路线图的一个主要部分。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，需要一个跨领域的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表面领域的发展。重要的是，培训核心的目标是专注于研究生和博士后的招聘和多学科教育。有助我们达致目标的建议目标包括：提供支援人员处理培训中心的日常运作；促进教师和参与者之间的互动；通过教师领导和参与核心目标来管理培训核心；通过我们正在进行的研究项目，以及在包括一群传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）在内的附属学校举办的教师/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；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留住了科学家；通过使用超级基金团队，提高博士后和研究生的团队合作精神、自我激励/依赖以及研究知识/技能的广度；为学生提供一套核心研究生课程；并通过研究轮岗计划加强跨学科的培训。这项超级基金提案的培训核心将培训攻读哲学博士学位的学生，或在生物医学研究人员研究的与颗粒有关的空气污染及其对健康的后续影响这一高度跨学科领域继续深造的学生。来自不同种族、性别和科学背景的学生将接受交叉培训，使他们成为环境工作队伍的宝贵贡献者。

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.