A major goal of the Environmental Health Sciences Core Center  is to expand EHS research and translation at UC Davis by recruiting researchers who are interested in EHS and providing opportunities and resources to assist them in conducting such research.

One way to grow the cadre of EHS researchers is to honor, each year, a promising researcher with the EHS Scholar Award. Candidates for this award include:

An early-stage investigator – defined as an individual who has not received an NIH R01 or similar grant and who is within 10 years of completing their research degree or medical residency.

An established investigator new to EHS or UC Davis EHSC – defined as an individual no longer qualifying as an ESI but actively seeking to undertake new directions by investigating environmental factors that contribute to disease or disability in human populations.

The selected awardee is honored with the “EHS Scholar” designation for one year, receiving: 1) funding to cover partial salary support and access to career development activities 2) formal mentoring as appropriate, and 3) priority access to the EHSC Cores, which include an Exposure Core, a Translational Research Sciences Core, Community Engagement Core, and an Administrative Core.