IGERT: Multidisciplinary Training at the Interface of Biology, Mathematics and Physics

9870659塔博尔 这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖将支持在生物，数学和物理科学的接口建立一个基础广泛的研究生培训计划。 该计划由来自9个部门和2个国家实验室的21名教师共同努力，将强调对数学和物理建模与动手实验室实验相结合的问题进行合作研究。 特别感兴趣的领域包括节肢动物进化和种群生物学，心血管生理学，图像分析，细菌运动，细胞结构物理学和嗅觉。 学生就读于任何七个现有的博士学位。课程，将参加现有的和新的课程，包括一个新的三个学期的生物数学研讨会，将结合联合收割机文献研究，师生小组讨论和研讨会由外部专家探讨专题问题的组合。 一个新的，生物物理实验室课程，涵盖布朗运动，膜，生物聚合物，趋化性和流体动力学将要求所有学生。 学生将通过现有的部门为基础的战略，以及由研究生院直接赞助的特殊努力招募。 IGERT是一个新的，NSF范围内的计划，其目标是赞助建立创新的，以研究为基础的研究生课程，这将培养一批新的科学家和工程师的多元化，为私营和公共部门的各种职业做好准备。 IGERT为开发新的，重点突出的多学科课程提供了机会，这些课程跨越了传统的组织障碍，将来自多个部门或机构的教师团结起来，为培训和研究建立一个高度互动的协作环境。 在第一年，该计划将为17个新的或新生的项目提供支持，这些项目涵盖了符合NSF支持条件的科学，工程和数学的所有领域。

9870659 Tabor This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award will support the establishment of a broadly- based graduate training program at the interface of the biological, mathematical and physical sciences. The program, a joint effort of 21 faculty drawn from 9 departments and 2 national laboratories, will emphasize collaborative research on problems where the joining of mathematical and physical modeling with hands-on laboratory experimentation holds great promise. Particular areas of interest include arthropod evolution and population biology, cardiovascular physiology, image analysis, bacterial motion, physics of cell structures, and olfaction. Students enrolled in any of seven existing Ph.D. programs, will participate in a combination of existing and new courses, including a new three semester biomathematics seminar that will combine literature research, faculty-student group discussions and seminars by outside experts to explore topical problems. A new, biological physics laboratory course covering Brownian motion, membranes, biopolymers, chemotaxis and fluid dynamics will be required of all students. Students will be recruited through existing departmentally-based strategies, as well as special efforts sponsored directly by the graduate college. IGERT is a new, NSF-wide program whose goal is to sponsor the establishment of innovative, research-based graduate programs that will train a diverse group of new scientists and engineers to be well-prepared for varied careers in the private and public sectors. IGERT provides an opportunity for the development of new, well-focused multidisciplinary programs that bridge traditional organizational barriers, uniting faculty from several departments or institutions to establish a highly-interactive collaborative environment for both training and research. In its first year, the program will provide support to 17 institutions for new or nascent programs that collectively s pan all areas of science, engineering and mathematics eligible for support by the NSF.