PROJECT SUMMARY (Administrative Core: Ding, Maier, Ramírez-Andreotta) The University of Arizona Superfund Research Center (UA SRC) Administrative Core is the “glue” that holds the many parts of our Center together making the “whole” greater than the sum of the individual Research Projects and Cores. The Administrative Core integrates the many components of our Center to meet the needs of the overall NIEHS Superfund Research Program, our stakeholders, and our community. The Administrative Core encompasses both the management aspects as well as the creative development of our Center. The management component includes the responsibilities for the supervision, direction, planning, and coordination of the UA SRC, as well as communication with stakeholders and financial accountability. The development component involves seeking innovative ways to increase the impact of our Center including building partnerships within the University of Arizona, with our sister SRCs, and with our partners (NIEHS, Environmental Protection Agency, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, State agencies, communities, and the mining industry). The overall goal of our Center is to overall goal is to construct a mechanistic model of how chronic exposure to dust that is co-contaminated with metal(loid)s and fungal spores contributes to the development of nonmalignant lung disease and build risk assessment tools to predict exposures and associated health outcomes and inform public health prevention and interventions with communities neighboring mine waste sites. Our Administrative Core objectives are to: (1) plan, manage and coordinate the research projects and support cores to ensure they attain the proposed shared research, training, and translational objectives; (2) promote the exchange of scientific information at all levels through interaction with NIEHS and stakeholders and the translation of our research products to risk assessment, intervention, education, and ha