CEHS Summer Undergraduate Research Program: University of Montana

描述(由申请人提供) 为了让美国的研究活动继续脱颖而出，必须招募和培训新一代科学家。在需要广泛的跨学科培训的环境健康科学领域尤其如此。然而，研究生教育和对活跃的科学研究的期望仍然不明朗，即使对已经在科学领域主修的本科生也是如此。该项目旨在每年夏天让一小群来自美国高校的有才华的本科理科学生在蒙大拿大学环境健康科学中心(CEHS)的活跃研究实验室中沉浸10周，以实现三个具体目标： 1)为本科生提供环境健康科学的研究培训和接触。 2)提供背景培训，以改善学员进入研究生院的准备，鼓励他们在环境健康科学方面进行研究生学习，并使学生有多种职业选择。 3)增加环境卫生科学研究生的多样性。 在蒙大拿大学这个项目的头五年，CEHS已经建立了一个被证明成功的跟踪记录，并仔细评估了参与者在完成该项目的每一年时的态度。该项目将在这些成功的基础上继续工作，以便让更多的学生接触到研究中发现的机会，特别是在环境健康研究中。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) In order for the research activities in the U.S. to continue to excel, a new generation of scientists must be recruited and trained. This is especially true in environmental health sciences that require broad interdisciplinary training. However, graduate education and the expectations of active scientific research remain unclear, even to undergraduates already majoring in a scientific field. This project aims to immerse a small cohort each summer of talented undergraduate science students from colleges and universities in the U.S. in active research laboratories in the Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS) for 10 weeks at the University of Montana in order to meet three specific aims: 1) To provide research training and exposure to environmental health sciences for undergraduate students. 2) To provide background training to improve the participants' preparedness for graduate school and encourage their graduate study in environmental health sciences, as well as expose students to various career options. 3) To increase the diversity of the pool of students progressing to graduate study in environmental health sciences. The CEHS has established a proven track record of success and careful assessment of the attitudes of participants upon completion of each year of the program in the first five years of this program at the University of Montana. This project will build upon these successes and to continue the work in order to expose more students to the opportunities found in research, and specifically in environmental health research.