Basic and Applied Summer Training in Alcohol Research

描述(由申请者提供)：肯塔基大学酒精研究暑期培训(STAR)计划为11名优秀的本科生提供为期12周的强化实践酒精研究。由于我们的酒类研究人员采用了广泛的实证方法，存在着真正从板凳到床边的广泛研究机会。受训者可选择的研究课题从酒精神经变性的细胞生物学到酒精在缓和人际家庭暴力中可能起到的作用的应用调查研究。这一计划将与药学系夏季本科生研究计划的长期存在的基础设施很好地结合在一起。学员将在酒精研究学院的监督下进行独立研究，参加每周的教育和专业发展研讨会，并接受负责任的研究行为培训。努力工作、发现和伟大的科学将在我们一年一度的夏季酒精研究研讨会上向教职员工、实验室人员和同行发表研究报告。通过科学组织、网络网站，以及直接面向地区文科大学、本科院校，特别是那些在STEM领域服务于代表性不足群体的学校，积极宣传该计划，将允许招募多样化的夏季本科实习生。与提供基础和应用酒精研究实践经验的主要目标一致，我们将促进生物医学和行为科学作为这些学生的职业选择。我们将对STAR计划的短期和长期成功进行评估，以实现我们的主要目标，即增加研究生项目和生物医学研究职业的不同申请者人数。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Kentucky Summer Training in Alcohol Research (STAR) program provides 12 weeks of intensive, hands-on alcohol research for 11 outstanding undergraduate students. A broad range of research opportunities exist that are truly bench to bedside, because of the breadth of empirical approaches employed by our alcohol research faculty. Research topics available to the trainees range from the cell biology of alcohol neurodegeneration to applied survey research on the role that alcohol may have in moderating interpersonal domestic violence. This program will mesh well with the long-standing existing infrastructure of the Department of Pharmaceutical Science's summer undergraduate research program. Trainees will perform independent research under the supervision of alcohol research faculty, participate in weekly educational and professional development seminars and be trained in responsible conduct of research. Hard work, discovery and great science will culminate in a research presentation to faculty, laboratory personnel and peers at our annual Summer Alcohol Research Symposium. Aggressive advertising of the program through scientific organizations, networking websites, and directly to regional liberal arts colleges, undergraduate institutions, and especially those schools serving underrepresented groups in STEM fields will allow for the recruitment of a diverse pool of summer undergraduate trainees. In concert with the main goals of providing hands on experience in basic and applied alcohol research, we will be promoting the biomedical and behavioral sciences as career choices for these students. Evaluations of short-term and long-term successes of the STAR program on our primary objective of increasing the pool of diverse applicants to graduate programs and biomedical research careers will be conducted and followed throughout the years of the program.