Project Summary – Administrative Program Enrichment Core The UAB Nathan Shock Center (NSC) has as its research focus the comprehensive assessment of energy intake and use from the level of organelles, cells, and tissues (Comparative Mitochondrial Health Assessment Core) to whole organisms (Comparative Organismal Energetics Core) as it relates to aging and later-life health in a diversity of species. Findings at these various levels are analyzed and integrated by our Comparative Data Analytics Core. Comparative energetics is a cornerstone of what has come to be called “geroscience,” the study of interactions between fundamental aging processes and maladies of later life. The Administrative Program Enrichment Core (Admin Core) is the oversight, administrative, and outreach arm of the UAB NSC as a whole. Under the leadership of Drs. Steven Austad and Thomas Buford, the Admin Core will continue to manage, coordinate, publicize, and integrate the diverse activities of the Center. It also will be responsible for facilitating interactions with the other Shock Centers, the Nathan Shock Centers Coordinating Center, and relevant National Institute on Aging (NIA) staff. In consultation with the Internal and External Advisory Committees, the Admin Core will issue annual evaluations and reports on each Core's performance and on the performance of the NSC overall and will make programmatic changes as warranted. This Core also will be the organizational unit responsible for promoting basic aging research at UAB, regionally, and nationally, seeking particularly to attract trainees and early career researchers from allied disciplines into geroscience research.