Basic and Applied Summer Training in Alcohol Research

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12周的密集实践酒精研究。由于我们的酒精研究人员采用了广泛的经验方法，因此存在广泛的研究机会，从真正的实验室到床边。向学员提供的研究课题包括酒精性神经退行性变的细胞生物学，以及关于酒精在缓和人际间家庭暴力方面可能发挥的作用的应用调查研究。这个项目将很好地与药物科学系的暑期本科生研究项目的长期存在的基础设施相结合。受训人员将在酒精研究学院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方面的培训。艰苦的工作，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报告。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，特别是那些在STEM领域服务代表性不足的群体的学校，积极宣传该项目，这将有助于招聘到各种各样的暑期本科生学员。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。我们的主要目标是增加研究生项目和生物医学研究职业的多样化申请者，将对STAR项目的短期和长期成功进行评估，并在项目的整个年份进行跟踪。

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.