CSUSB Minority Drug Abuse Research Program

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的加州州立大学圣贝纳迪诺分校（CSUSB）少数民族药物滥用研究计划（MIDARP）的总体目的是提高加州州立大学圣贝纳迪诺分校校园内药物滥用和成瘾研究的质量和数量，特别是与个体发生有关的研究。为此，拟议项目的目标是：(1)加强机构基础设施，(2)提高中南大学医学部教师从事药物滥用和成瘾方面有意义和有资金支持的研究的能力，以及(3)增加少数族裔学生从事药物滥用研究的人数。CSUSB非常适合实现这些目标，因为它有一批对药物滥用发展方面感兴趣的活跃教职员工，大量学术合格且积极性不足的少数民族学生，以及一个支持性的管理部门。CSUSB MIDARP计划提出了许多活动，以实现扩大校园药物滥用和成瘾研究计划的目标。这些活动包括设立一个药物滥用和成瘾研究中心，举办一个关于药物滥用和成瘾研究的双月讨论会，以及举办一个药物滥用和成瘾研究专题讨论会。此外，化学与生物化学系、健康与人类生态学系和心理学系的教员正在提出三个研究项目。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall purpose of the proposed California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) Minority Drug Abuse Research Program (MIDARP) is to increase the quality and quantity of research on the CSUSB campus focused on drug abuse and addiction, particularly as it pertains to ontogeny. To this end, the goals of the proposed program are to (1) strengthen the institutional infrastructure, (2) enhance the capacity of CSUSB faculty to engage in meaningful and fundable research in drug abuse and addiction, and (3) increase the number of underrepresented minority students that pursue a career in drug abuse research. CSUSB is ideally suited to carry out these goals because it has a core of active faculty members interested in developmental aspects of drug abuse, a large number of academically qualified and motivated underrepresented minority students, and a supportive administration. The CSUSB MIDARP program has a number of activities proposed to achieve the aim of expanding the drug abuse and addiction research program on campus. These activities include the creation of a Center for Drug Abuse and Addiction Studies, the development of a bimonthly seminar on drug addiction research, and the hosting of a Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Symposium. In addition, three research projects from faculty in the departments of chemistry and Biochemistry, Health and Human Ecology, and Psychology are being proposed.