# STEER Summer Internship Program

> **NIH NIH R25** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · 2021 · $108,000

## Abstract

Project Abstract
The Environmental Health Sciences Division of the School of Public Health at the
University of California, Berkeley proposes to continue its summer research internship
for undergraduate students, to introduce them to the field of environmental health
science with the long-term aim of increasing the number of talented students who
pursue graduate degrees and careers in this field. Students will be recruited from the
University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco Bay Area colleges, and targeted
universities across the state and country that meet diversity criteria. Students admitted
to the program will be matched to faculty conducting environmental health research of
interest to the intern. Student interns will conduct research with the designated faculty
member and, when appropriate and in accordance with the learning objectives,
members of the research team, including staff scientists, graduate students and
postdoctoral scholars. The interns will attend twice weekly seminars including topics on
environmental health sciences and the responsible conduct of science, as well as
participate in research discussion groups and group field trips. They will meet at least
weekly with their faculty mentor. The faculty mentors will define projects suitable for
their intern, monitor the intern's progress on a weekly basis, and provide written
feedback on the performance of the intern and the structure and administration of the
program. Likewise, the interns will provide written and verbal feedback about their
mentor and the program as a whole. Research projects may include direct data
collection, literature reviews, laboratory experiments, computer-based modeling, data
analysis, and research to practice initiatives, among others. The grant management
team will maintain its Advisory Committee made up of project management staff,
faculty, and students to ensure that the summer internship program benefits from
experience and services available on the UC Berkeley campus. It will improve its
recruitment process to better reach minority and disadvantaged students and maintain
an evaluation process to ensure that the program continuously improves over the five-
year period of the grant.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10129653
- **Project number:** 2R25ES021650-06A1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
- **Principal Investigator:** Carisa Harris Adamson
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $108,000
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2013-05-15 → 2025-10-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10129653

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10129653, STEER Summer Internship Program (2R25ES021650-06A1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10129653. Licensed CC0.

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