Short Term Educational Experiences for Research (STEER) in Environmental Health S

描述（由申请人提供） 这是一个奖项的请求，以支持优秀本科生的夏季研究计划和本科生和高中生有组织的教育经验的夏季计划。环境健康科学的培训对于满足社会和学术界的需求至关重要。公众对环境中的化学品的认识和关注的提高引起了对毒理学家和其他环境科学家、有效的政府监管机构以及了解化学品与生物系统的相互作用如何促成或调节疾病状态的科学家的持续强烈需求。该计划将招募和培养最有才华的学生，目标是增加对改善人类健康和预防疾病产生最大影响的环境健康科学家的数量。 调查人员认为，这个程序作为一种机制，提供最有天赋的本科生在加州大学戴维斯分校招聘的机会1）在环境健康领域的密集的夏季研究经验结合2）教育经验，将支持知情的职业生涯决定在环境健康科学，并提供一个框架，了解这个竞技场的主要问题。这些经验无疑将鼓励学生在环境健康科学进行研究生研究，并增加在国家和地方一级的环境健康科学研究生申请人的库。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) This is a request for an award to support a summer research program for outstanding undergraduate students and a summer program of organized educational experiences for undergraduate and high school students. Training in the environmental health sciences is crucial to fill the needs of both society and academia. Heightened public awareness and concern about chemicals in the environment elicit a continuing strong demand for toxicologists and other environmental scientists, for effective governmental regulators and for scientists who understand how chemical interactions with biological systems can precipitate or modulate disease states. This program will recruit and train the most talented students with a goal of increasing the pool of environmental health scientists who can have the greatest impact on improving human health and preventing disease. The investigators view this program as a mechanism to provide the most gifted undergraduates recruited at the University of California, Davis with the opportunity for 1) an intensive summer research experience in the area of environmental health combined with 2) educational experiences that will support informed career decisions in the environmental health sciences and provide a framework for understanding major issues in this arena. These experiences will undoubtedly encourage students to pursue graduate research in the environmental health sciences and increase the pool of graduate applicants in environmental health sciences at a national as well as local level.