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The Director, Deputy Director, and Executive Committee will vote on the appointment of new nominees and reappointment of existing members. Initial appointment is a term for three (3) years. Prospective UK-CARES members must demonstrate a commitment to the mission and vision of the center and are expected to participate in center events. Interested applicants may apply online, but also download a PDF of the application to use as a guide.

 

Types of Membership

Full

  • UK Faculty member of any title series; ​

  • Have or recently submitted extramural funding to support EHS research, and

  • Contributed to the environmental health science (EHS) peer-reviewed literature within the last three ​(3) years ​

  • Reviewed annually

Associate

  • UK Faculty member of any title series; ​

  • Demonstrated strong research interest in EHS, but does not have active EHS research​

  • This category of membership is designed to engage early career faculty and/or mid- to senior-level ​faculty who are new to EHS to promote career development and enhance in EHS​

  • Reviewed annually

Affiliate

  • Any faculty, researcher, postdoctoral fellow, research staff, health care professional, or community ​member who has a strong interest in promoting EHS in their profession​

  • Engaged in UK-CARES activities​

  • 3-year term

Benefits and Responsbilities

Benefits

  • Access to up to $5K seed/professional development funds/year (Full and Associate Members)
  • Priority access to and use of core facilities at a reduced rate (Full and Associate Members)
  • Invitation to all UK-CARES events, monthly newsletter, and training awards for early stage investigators (All Members)
  • Opportunity to partner with more senior EHS faculty who can act as co-investigators or mentors (All Members)
  • Opportunity to serve on the review committee for UK-CARES Pilot Project Program (All Members)
  • Participation in faculty development activities that provide for exchange of ideas, shared resources, and opportunity to network and collaborate with other UK-CARES members and members of other Environmental Health Science Core Centers (EHSCC) in the U.S. to conduct interdisciplinary research in accord with the NIEHS mission (All Members)
  • Opportunity to be featured on the UK-CARES website, social media, and other promotional materials (All Members)
  • Interaction with community partners to address local environmental health concerns through the Community Engagement Core (All Members)

Responsibilities

  • Contribute scientific or administrative expertise to the research mission of UK-CARES (Full Members)
  • Contribute to the educational and outreach activities of the UK-CARES Community Engagement Core (Full Members)
  • Use approved, standard citation language (shown below) to cite the grant in all related publications/presentations and incorporate logo as appropriate (All Members)
    • “This publication or project was supported by UK-CARES through Grant P30 ES026529. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIEHS.”
  • Participate in UK-CARES seminars, socials, retreats, interest groups, symposia, and surveys (All Members)
  • Attend UK-CARES EHS seminars which feature both local and national environmental health researchers (All Members)
  • Use UK-CARES core facilities to advance their research (All Members)