# Academic Year Health, Air Pollution, and Population Initiative in Education and Science Training (AY HAPPIEST)

> **NIH NIH R25** · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · 2022 · $106,834

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The overall goal of the parent project is to train University of Utah (UOU) undergraduate students from
underrepresented racial/ethnic backgrounds in air pollution-related health research through a faculty-mentored
summer program called Health, Air Pollution and Population Initiative in Education and Science Training
(HAPPIEST). This administrative supplement will extend HAPPIEST research opportunities to the academic
year for selected participants. Since exposure to air pollution is magnified in racial/ethnic minority communities
in the United States, it is imperative to engage members of these communities—especially college students with
STEM interests—in addressing the complex problems caused by poor air quality and environmental inequity.
With this administrative supplement, we will achieve the following aims, which are within the original scope of
the peer-reviewed and approved project:
 Aim 1. Extend the summer HAPPIEST mentoring “community of practice” model to the academic
 year to enrich student training and deepen interdisciplinary collaboration on team-based
 environmental health research.
 Aim 2. Link the evaluation of academic year HAPPIEST to summer HAPPIEST to improve the quality
 and effectiveness of all HAPPIEST programming, as well as inform future undergraduate research
 training programs that aim to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in NIEHS-
 related research.
In the parent award, the “community of practice” every summer includes four research teams, each with two
undergraduate students, one graduate student training coordinator, and at least one faculty mentor. The
administrative supplement will fund one academic year (AY) HAPPIEST research team, comprised to two
summer 2022 HAPPIEST undergraduates, a summer 2021 HAPPIEST graduate student training coordinator,
and three faculty mentors involved with HAPPIEST in summers 2021 and 2022. The interdisciplinary team will
work on a research project investigating transgenerational effects of industrial air pollution on intellectual
disability. Using an asset-oriented approach designed to build on student strengths, AY HAPPIEST activities will
prepare students for placement into competitive graduate programs in the environmental health sciences. The
project is of great

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10604829
- **Project number:** 3R25ES031497-02S1
- **Recipient organization:** UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
- **Principal Investigator:** Timothy William Collins
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $106,834
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2022-08-18 → 2023-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10604829

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10604829, Academic Year Health, Air Pollution, and Population Initiative in Education and Science Training (AY HAPPIEST) (3R25ES031497-02S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10604829. Licensed CC0.

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