Basic and Applied Summer Training in Alcohol Research

描述（由申请人提供）：肯塔基州大学酒精研究暑期培训（星星）计划为11名优秀的本科生提供12周的密集，动手酒精研究。广泛的研究机会存在，是真正的板凳到床边，因为我们的酒精研究教师采用的经验方法的广度。提供给学员的研究课题范围从酒精神经变性的细胞生物学到酒精在缓和人际家庭暴力中可能发挥的作用的应用调查研究。该计划将很好地与制药科学的暑期本科研究计划的部门的长期存在的基础设施。学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培训。努力工作，发现和伟大的科学将在我们一年一度的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，并直接向区域文理学院，本科院校，特别是那些服务于STEM领域代表性不足的群体的学校积极宣传该计划，将允许招募多样化的夏季本科学员。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。对星星计划的短期和长期成功的评估，我们的主要目标是增加研究生课程和生物医学研究职业的不同申请人的数量，将在整个计划的几年内进行和跟踪。

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.