Research Experience and Training Coordination Core (RETCC)

摘要 化学品暴露带来的环境健康科学问题是复杂的；解决这些问题 要想成功，就需要来自不同科学领域的专业知识。杜克大学超级基金研究中心 (DUSRC)专注于在早期生命暴露和共同暴露的背景下进行研究和解决问题， 后世后果、环境正义和场地补救。跨学科培训可以使 解决此类问题所需的跨学科研究。同样，传播科学对 许多科学家，从历史上看，许多环境健康科学工作都是在没有 与受影响社区的互动。支持学员参与DUSRC的工作并为未来做好准备 环境科学与健康事业、研究经验和培训协调核心(RETCC) 向学员提供跨学科培训，使他们能够开展和 交流综合的、跨学科的、以问题为导向的研究。 RETCC将提供一个灵活而严格的计划，其特点是两个互补的目标。首先，所有 学员将参加一系列核心活动，以确保熟练掌握基本知识和技能。 (目标1)。其次，将指导所有受训人员选择个性化的培训活动，以提供深度 以及对职业和研究领域发展的特殊性(目标2)。这些组件都经过了精心的处理 旨在补充其他部门和计划的培训部分，供我们的学员使用 是相关的，包括社会、生物医学、工程和统计环境科学，从而确保 我们提供的跨学科培训与深入、专注的纪律严谨相辅相成。 具体目标1.提供与以下方面有关的共同的、基本的跨学科知识和技能培训 环境健康与环境科学与工程。必须参加这五项活动 为所有学员创造坚实、广泛的跨学科知识和技能基础，促进跨学科发展 研究，并促进所有DUSRC成员之间的社区。 具体目标2.提供促进科学深度和个性化职业生涯的结构和活动 发展。为配合目标1下所有学员的广泛见识和熟练程度，我们 将提供根据每个学员的目标和需求量身定做的灵活的机会菜单。的 我们续订申请的意义在于重新设计了我们的“导师辅导”计划，现在明确 旨在促进我们的实习生与不同背景的本科生合作并鼓励 无代表的少数群体参与南部非洲联盟的研究和核心。 与上一个供资周期一样，我们预计每年支持5-7名受训人员，大约75%的分布 博士生占20%，博士后占20%，硕士研究生占5%。

Abstract Environmental health science problems posed by chemical exposure are complex; addressing these problems successfully requires expertise from diverse scientific fields. The Duke University Superfund Research Center (DUSRC) focuses on research and problem-solving in the context of early-life exposures and co-exposures, later-life consequences, environmental justice, and site remediation. Cross-disciplinary training can enable the transdisciplinary research required to solve such problems. Likewise, communicating science is challenging for many scientists, and historically much environmental health science work has been done in the absence of interaction with affected communities. To support trainees in DUSRC work and in preparing themselves for future environmental science and health careers, the Research Experience and Training Coordination Core (RETCC) of the DUSRC provides cross-disciplinary training to trainees to enable them to carry out and communicate integrated, transdisciplinary, problem-oriented research. The RETCC will provide a flexible and rigorous program characterized by two complementary Aims. First, all trainees will participate in a core set of activities that will ensure proficiency in fundamental knowledge and skills (Aim 1). Second, all trainees will be guided in choosing individually-tailored training activities to provide depth and specificity to career and research field development (Aim 2). These components have been carefully designed to complement the training components of the other departments and programs with which our trainees are associated, including social, biomedical, engineering, and statistical environmental sciences, thus ensuring that the cross-disciplinary training we provide is complemented by in-depth, focused disciplinary rigor. Specific Aim 1. Provide training in common, fundamental cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills related to environmental health and environmental science and engineering. Required participation in these five activities creates a solid, broad base of cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills for all trainees, stimulates transdisciplinary research, and promotes community among all DUSRC members. Specific Aim 2. Provide structure and activities that facilitate scientific depth and personalized career development. To complement the broad exposure and proficiencies that all trainees will attain under Aim 1, we will provide a flexible menu of opportunities that will be tailored to the goals and needs of each trainee. Of significance in our renewal application is the redesign of our “mentored mentoring” program, now explicitly designed to promote collaboration of our trainees with undergraduates of diverse backgrounds and encourage engagement of unrepresented minorities in DUSRC research and cores. As in the last funding cycle, we expect to support 5-7 trainees per year, with an approximate distribution of 75% PhD students, 20% postdoctoral researchers, and 5% Master’s students.