# Research Experience & Training Coordination Core

> **NIH NIH P42** · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $134,851

## Abstract

Summary/Abstract: The Center for Leadership in Environmental Awareness and Research (CLEAR) seeks to
prepare the next generation of leaders to effectively address complex environmental health problems,
particularly the impact of vapor intrusion of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) on preterm birth and
associated adverse health outcomes in post-industrial urban settings, through professional careers in the
environmental and/or biomedical sciences. The preparation of skilled transdisciplinary, team-scientists requires
a systems approach that integrates diverse disciplines, stakeholders, and experiential learning opportunities.
Building on Wayne State University’s (WSU) strength as an urban R1 institution, the most diverse campus in
Michigan, and a partner for Detroit in addressing social justice and equity issues, the Research Engagement and
Training Coordination Core (RETCC) will coordinate, problem-based, solution-oriented research experiences
and training. In Aim 1, RETCC will promote a systems approach to transdisciplinary training for a diverse
group of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows by promoting the use of an individualized development
planning (IDP) system to integrate planning, monitoring, and feedback across a range of experiential learning
opportunities based on trainee professional goals and guided by our transdisciplinary competency model;
supporting diversity and inclusion by integrating a range of student pipelines and developing skills in inclusive
mentoring excellence; leveraging interdisciplinary graduate courses taught by CLEAR faculty to provide
trainees with a Graduate Certificate in Urban Environmental Health; and collaborating with CLEAR project
leaders to provide trainees with cross-disciplinary, hands-on field and laboratory research opportunities. In Aim
2, RETCC will coordinate interactive, collaborative, problem-based training opportunities with the Data
Management & Analysis Core (DMAC) to offer solution-oriented interactive summer workshops as well as data
sharing opportunities and access to DMAC facilities and expertise. In Aim 3, RETCC will facilitate trainees’
ability to generate and apply scientific knowledge in ways that effectively engage stakeholders and
communities, and to translate scientific knowledge to inform policy-making and support environmental and
social justice through micro-internship opportunities with the Community Engagement Core and the
Administrative Core’s Research Translation function. Aim 4 is focused on enriching career and leadership
development of CLEAR trainees, through a CLEAR Leadership Fellowship program to support leadership
development in grant and budget management, leading diverse teams, and enhancing their national profile as
emerging environmental health science leaders through trainee-led invited speaker series and virtual knowledge
exchanges with other Superfund trainees across the country. RETCC will also provide funding to support
scientific conference travel and p...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10867396
- **Project number:** 5P42ES030991-03
- **Recipient organization:** WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Michael Curtis Petriello
- **Activity code:** P42 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $134,851
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2022-09-08 → 2027-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10867396

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10867396, Research Experience & Training Coordination Core (5P42ES030991-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10867396. Licensed CC0.

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