Student-to-Scientist Bridge Program in Environmental Health Science (S2S Bridge)

 描述(由申请人提供)：环境健康科学学生到科学家桥梁计划(S2S Bridge)是一个本科生研究教育计划，旨在满足NIEHS确定的增加环境健康科学培训计划的多样性，进而增加环境健康科学研究队伍的多样性的需求。环境健康科学研究人类健康与环境之间的关系，重点关注影响人类健康和环境质量的化学、物理和生物因素。作为加州州立大学北岭分校(CSUN)和加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)菲尔丁公共卫生学院的合作伙伴，S2S桥梁项目将利用CSUN的多样性和学生支持资源，以及加州大学洛杉矶分校的研究专长，增加申请并成功进入环境健康科学硕士和博士课程的URM学生数量。S2S Bridge项目将为15名CSUN城市资源管理本科生做好准备，使他们能够进入一个研究密集型环境健康科学研究生项目并在其中茁壮成长。具体目标是：1)让CSUN URM本科生在加州大学洛杉矶分校的环境健康科学实验室进行本科生研究体验(URE)；2)根据他们的教育和研究目标，为URM学生开发环境健康科学研究教育计划，并提供学术和研究生院准备和申请支持；3)由具有文化能力的教职员工提供正式指导，以培养学生在该计划和其他方面的成功；4)在计划参与者中实现环境健康科学研究生计划(硕士或博士)100%的申请率；以及5)在项目参与者中实现80%的环境健康科学研究生项目(硕士或博士)的录取率。S2S Bridge计划将培养和加强年轻科学家的早期经验，并增加未来环境健康科学研究人员干部的多样性。它还支持美国国立卫生研究院促进生物医学研究队伍多样化的更广泛的目标和重要的重点。最终，通过采用不同的研究视角，该项目将有助于更好地了解环境对健康差距的贡献，以便能够解决、缩小并最终消除这些差距。 被淘汰了。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Student-to-Scientist Bridge Program in Environmental Health Science (S2S Bridge) is an undergraduate research education program that responds to the need identified by NIEHS to increase the diversity of training programs for environmental health sciences and, by extension, the diversity of the environmental health science research workforce. Environmental health science addresses the relationship between human health and the environment, with a focus on the chemical, physical, and biological factors that affect human health and environmental quality. A partnership between California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Fielding School of Public Health, the S2S Bridge Program will leverage the diversity and student support resources of CSUN, together with UCLA's research expertise, to increase the number of URM students who apply to and succeed in gaining entry into masters and doctoral programs in the environmental health sciences. The S2S Bridge program will prepare 15 CSUN undergraduate URM students to enter and thrive in a research-intensive environmental health sciences graduate program. Specific aims are to: 1) Engage undergraduate CSUN URM students in an undergraduate research experience (URE) in UCLA environmental health science labs; 2) Develop a culturally responsive research education program in environmental health science for URM students based on their educational and research goals and provide academic and graduate school preparation and application support; 3) Provide formal mentoring by faculty members that is culturally competent to foster student success in the program and beyond; 4) Achieve a 100% application rate to graduate programs (masters or doctoral) in environmental health science among program participants; and 5) Achieve an 80% acceptance rate into a graduate program (masters or doctoral) in environmental health science among program participants. The S2S Bridge program will foster and enhance the early experiences of young scientists and increase the diversity of the future cadre of environmental health science researchers. It also supports the broader goal and significant focus of NIH to promote diversification of the biomedical research workforce. Ultimately, by engaging diverse research perspectives, the project will help develop a better understanding of the environmental contributions to health disparities so that these disparities can be addressed, reduced and finally eliminated.