Summer Intern Program (SIP) in Environmental Health Sciences

描述（由申请人提供）： 拟议的R25夏季实习生计划（SIP）在环境健康科学旨在提供夏季研究培训环境健康科学为10名优秀的代表性不足的少数民族本科生来自全国各地。这些实习生将参加哈佛公共卫生学院的研究者完善和全面的9周实验室培训计划，并获得其博士学位。在公共卫生生物科学计划。HSPH已承诺匹配NIH的支持，以提高其国家认可的暑期实习提供的经验。调查人员将提供实验室研究的实践培训，在暑期本科实习生和10名优秀的HSPH教师之间建立持久的指导关系，并通过为参加他们计划的实习生组织课程和课外活动来促进对环境健康研究生科学事业的兴趣。 所有培训项目的教师都有担任少数民族学生导师的经验，并已与他们的暑期项目合作多年。 此外，这些教师在广泛的研究领域，包括环境健康，遗传学，分子流行病学和生物标志物，毒理学和机械疾病研究积极的研究计划。这种广泛的兴趣将有利于他们的计划，因为每个教师将向学生讲述他们的研究和专业发展，以促进环境科学的职业生涯。 来自全国各地的潜在申请人将根据目的陈述，课程和本科水平的成绩以及推荐信来评估他们的潜力。 那些被录取的人将在6月的第二周或第三周开始他们的夏季体验。 SIP包括HSPH教师实验室的个性化监督研究项目，实验室安全培训，负责任的科学行为，参加每周一次的研讨会系列，重点是环境健康科学，与HSPH教师和研究生的正式和非正式指导午餐，全校范围的讲座，汇集了整个大学的暑期实习生，下午和晚上的社交活动，为研究生院的录取过程做实际准备，以及哈佛大学主办的科学研讨会，让学员介绍他们的研究成果。该计划的评估将评估如何以及SIP增强的动机和学术准备和参与环境健康事业。具体目标是激励和加强代表性不足的少数民族学生寻求环境卫生科学研究生水平培训的渠道。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed R25 Summer Intern Program (SIP) in Environmental Health Sciences seeks to offer summer research training in environmental health sciences for 10 outstanding under-represented minority undergraduate students from across the nation. These interns will participate in the investigators well-established and comprehensive 9-week laboratory training program at Harvard School of Public Health in conjunction with its Ph.D. Program in Biological Sciences in Public Health. HSPH has pledged to match NIH support to enhance the experience offered by its nationally recognized summer internship. The investigators will provide hands-on training in bench research, develop lasting mentoring relationships between summer undergraduate interns and ten outstanding HSPH faculty, and promote interest in environmental health graduate science careers by organizing curricular and extracurricular activities for interns enrolled in their program. All training program faculty are experienced in serving as mentors for minority students and have worked with their summer program for several years. Additionally, these faculty members have active research programs in a broad spectrum of research areas, including environmental health, genetics, molecular epidemiology and biomarkers, toxicology, and mechanistic disease research. This breadth of interest will benefit their program as each of the faculty will speak to the students about their research and professional development to foster careers in environmental sciences. Prospective applicants from across the nation will be evaluated for their potential based on statement of purpose, coursework and grades at the undergraduate level, and letters of reference. Those accepted into the program will begin their summer experience the second or third week in June. The SIP includes an individualized supervised research project in HSPH faculty laboratories, laboratory safety training, responsible conduct of science, participation in a weekly seminar series focusing on environmental health sciences, formal and informal mentoring lunches with HSPH faculty and graduate students, university-wide lectures bringing together summer interns across the university, afternoon and evening socials, practical preparation for the graduate school admission process, and Harvard University-sponsored Science Symposium for trainees to present the results of their research. The program evaluation will assess how well the SIP enhanced the motivation and academic preparation and participation in environmental health careers. The specific aim is to motivate and enhance the pipeline of underrepresented minority students seeking graduate level training in the environmental health sciences.