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Director: Mark Rutledge-Gorman
Co-Directors: William Cameron (K-12), Chris Cunningham (Training)

The Education and Outreach Component proposes three interrelated specific aims designed to advance NIAAA’s mission of translating and disseminating research findings to health care providers, researchers, policymakers and the public. These aims also support the Oregon Health & Science University’s mission of healing, teaching, research and community service.

Specific Aim 1: K-12 Education & Outreach
The principal goal is to provide K-12th grade students and their teachers with information about alcohol, the brain, and neuroscience. We propose age-appropriate activities that present information about how the brain works and how alcohol can affect it. The activities promote keeping one’s brain safe, making informed choices, meeting male and female neuroscientist role models, and pursuing careers in neuroscience in alcohol research in particular.

Aim 1 focuses especially on adolescent vulnerability to alcohol abuse by proposing a strategic technique for using the NIAAA curriculum, "Understanding Alcohol: Investigations into Biology and Behavior." In conjunction with NIAAA Science Education staff, we also propose to refine and test more broadly a novel neuroscience and safety curriculum developed by the current PARC Education Core for children in Kindergarten–3rd grade (APPENDIX MS 11-1).

Specific Aim 2: Training in Alcohol Research
Here, we propose to provide training and laboratory experience in alcohol research to high school, undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral students. Training the next generations of alcohol researchers has been a major commitment of many PARC investigators, some for over 30 years.

Specific Aim 3: Dissemination and Translational Interface
In this Aim we propose to coordinate and share the findings of the Center, and alcohol research results in general, with scientific colleagues and the broader community. Aim 3 proposes activities and resources that include professional and lay publications, the Center website for professionals and the general public, the PARC Library, inclusion of PARC investigators in the University’s speakers and scientific experts bureau, dissemination of existing PARC findings to the media, professional conferences, and outcomes and reviews of the Education and Outreach Component activities.

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