UA Environmental Health Transformative Research Undergrad Experience(EH TRUE)

 描述（申请人提供）：亚利桑那大学（UA）环境健康科学转型研究本科生经验（E-H-TRUE）研究教育计划将提供一个为期两年的，高度综合的研究和教育培训计划，在环境健康科学，旨在从事，教育，通过两个国际公认的小组的综合专业知识，在五年内保留了40名在环境健康科学方面代表性不足的本科生，UA。UA毒理学中心是世界上杰出的毒理学研究和培训中心之一，是NIH资助的环境毒理学大型研究工作的所在地，其中包括NIEHS资助的西南环境健康科学中心（SWEHSC）和UA超级基金研究计划。在E-H-TRUE中，毒理学中心与UA本科生研究计划（UBRP）联手，该计划已成为其他大学体验式本科生研究培训的典范超过26年。与高中和大一/大二本科生的早期接触将通过UBRP使用的现有网络进行协调，以确定有兴趣从事科学事业的不同背景的有才华的本科生。该培训计划将为参与者提供准备和支持，使他们能够获得激发攻读研究生学位愿望的研究经验。教育部分将包括一个专门设计的环境健康科学座谈会课程，该课程将作为其框架，在亚利桑那州的真实世界有毒物质暴露场景，探索这些环境中的来源，毒理学，流行病学，政府监管和社区社会影响。参与者还将接受实验室任务管理方面的实际培训。使用一个名为Trello（trello.com）的在线任务管理系统，学生将与导师一起定义假设和研究问题，将这些问题分解为单独的实验，并按顺序组织实验，截止日期，并有效地呈现结果。在整个计划中，网络和近同行的指导将被强调。近同行辅导将包括目前的受训人员参加UA NIEHS T32培训赠款，该赠款已连续资助33年。E-H-TRUE计划将通过有组织的小组活动，在参与者中培养科学自我认同的发展，他们的经验可以分享，以及通过SWEHSC的外展核心组织的结构化环境健康科学社区外展活动。E-H-TRUE将建立创新的想法，以支持其参与者在这一潜在的职业选择。在新的社区外展方法中，参与者将在研究导师的陪同下访问参与者的家乡社区（家乡，部落社区），讨论他们的研究和他们与自己社区的研究经验。为了使项目保持正轨并衡量影响，提案中详细列出了形成性和总结性评价计划。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Arizona (UA) Environmental Health Sciences Transformative Research Undergraduate Experience (E-H-TRUE) research education program will deliver a two-year, highly integrated research and education training program in environmental health sciences, designed to engage, educate, and retain 40 undergraduate students underrepresented in environmental health sciences over five years through the combined expertise of two internationally recognized groups at UA. The UA Center for Toxicology, one of the preeminent toxicology research and training centers in the world, is home to a large NIH-funded research effort in environmental toxicology that includes the NIEHS-funded Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center (SWEHSC) and the UA Superfund Research Program. In E-H-TRUE, the Center for Toxicology joins forces with the UA Undergraduate Research Program (UBRP), which has served as a model for other universities in experiential undergraduate research training for more than 26 years. Early contact with high school and with freshman/sophomore undergraduates will be coordinated through existing networks used by UBRP to identify talented undergraduates from diverse backgrounds who are interested in pursuing science careers. The training program will provide participants with the preparation and support that will enable them to have the kinds of research experiences that ignite a desire to pursue graduate degrees. The educational component will include a specifically designed colloquium course in the environmental health sciences that will use as its framework, real-world toxicant exposure scenarios in Arizona, exploring the source, toxicology, epidemiology, government regulatory, and the community social impact in these settings. Participants will also receive practical training in laboratory task management. Using an online task management system called Trello (trello.com), students will work with mentors to define hypotheses and research questions, break those questions down to individual experiments, and organize the experiments sequentially, with due dates, and to effectively present results. Throughout the program, networking and near-peer mentoring will be emphasized. Near-peer mentoring will include participation from current trainees in the UA NIEHS T32 training grant, which has been continuously funded for 33 years. The E-H-TRUE program will nurture the development of a scientific self-identity in participants through organized group activities where their experiences can be shared, as well as in structured environmental health science community outreach activities, organized through the outreach core in SWEHSC. E-H-TRUE will build innovative ideas into its support for its participants in this potential career choice. In on novel community outreach approach, participants will be accompanied by research mentors on a visit to the participants' home communities (home town, tribal community) to discuss their research and their research experience with their own community. To keep the project on track and to measure impact, a plan for formative and summative evaluation is detailed in the proposal.