Basic and Applied Summer Training in Alcohol Research

酒精研究基础和应用暑期培训

• 批准号: 8795142
• 负责人: Kimberly Nixon
• 金额: $ 6.8万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-02-01 至 2019-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8795142
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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.

描述（由申请人提供）：肯塔基大学酒精研究暑期培训 (STAR) 计划为 11 名优秀本科生提供为期 12 周的强化实践酒精研究。由于我们的酒精研究人员采用了广泛的实证方法，因此存在真正从实验室到临床的广泛研究机会。学员可以选择的研究主题包括酒精神经变性的细胞生物学以及酒精在缓解人际家庭暴力方面的作用的应用调查研究。该计划将与药学系夏季本科研究计划的长期现有基础设施很好地契合。学员将在酒精研究教师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。辛勤的工作、发现和伟大的科学将在我们的年度夏季酒精研究研讨会上向教师、实验室人员和同行进行研究演示。通过科学组织、网络网站以及直接向地区文理学院、本科院校，特别是那些为 STEM 领域代表性不足的群体提供服务的学校，对该项目进行积极的广告宣传，这将有助于招募多样化的暑期本科生学员。为了与提供基础和应用酒精研究实践经验的主要目标相一致，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。我们将在项目实施期间对 STAR 项目的短期和长期成功进行评估，评估的主要目标是增加研究生项目和生物医学研究职业的多元化申请人数量。