CSUSB Minority Drug Abuse Research Program

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的加州州立大学，圣贝纳迪诺（CSUSB）少数民族药物滥用研究计划（MIDARP）的总体目的是提高CSUSB校园研究的质量和数量，重点是药物滥用和成瘾，特别是因为它涉及到个体发育。为此，拟议方案的目标是（1）加强体制基础设施，（2）提高CSUSB教师的能力，从事有意义的和资助的研究药物滥用和成瘾，和（3）增加代表性不足的少数民族学生的数量追求职业生涯中药物滥用研究。CSUSB非常适合实现这些目标，因为它拥有对药物滥用的发展方面感兴趣的活跃教师核心，大量学术资格和积极性不足的少数民族学生，以及支持性的管理。CSUSB MIDARP计划提出了一些活动，以实现扩大校园药物滥用和成瘾研究计划的目的。这些活动包括建立一个药物滥用和致瘾研究中心，每两个月举办一次药物致瘾研究研讨会，并主办一次药物滥用和致瘾研究专题讨论会。此外，化学和生物化学，健康和人类生态学以及心理学系的教师正在提出三个研究项目。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall purpose of the proposed California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) Minority Drug Abuse Research Program (MIDARP) is to increase the quality and quantity of research on the CSUSB campus focused on drug abuse and addiction, particularly as it pertains to ontogeny. To this end, the goals of the proposed program are to (1) strengthen the institutional infrastructure, (2) enhance the capacity of CSUSB faculty to engage in meaningful and fundable research in drug abuse and addiction, and (3) increase the number of underrepresented minority students that pursue a career in drug abuse research. CSUSB is ideally suited to carry out these goals because it has a core of active faculty members interested in developmental aspects of drug abuse, a large number of academically qualified and motivated underrepresented minority students, and a supportive administration. The CSUSB MIDARP program has a number of activities proposed to achieve the aim of expanding the drug abuse and addiction research program on campus. These activities include the creation of a Center for Drug Abuse and Addiction Studies, the development of a bimonthly seminar on drug addiction research, and the hosting of a Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Symposium. In addition, three research projects from faculty in the departments of chemistry and Biochemistry, Health and Human Ecology, and Psychology are being proposed.