IGERT Formal Proposal: Nanophases in the Environment, Agriculture, and Technology

该综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持在材料科学和环境科学的界面上建立教育和研究的多学科研究生培训计划。 纳米相，具有非常高表面积的小颗粒，无处不在，并与生命物质强烈相互作用。 纳米材料的基本特征和基础科学是类似的，无论这种颗粒出现在哪里。 NEAT项目将在四个相互关联的领域对学生进行教育：纳米相的基础科学和技术、纳米相在环境中的传输和转化、纳米相与生物圈的相互作用以及纳米颗粒在环境中引发的政策问题。 学生将来自固态物理，地质学和微生物学等不同的背景。 一套课程，实验室轮换，实习和研究机会将教育这些学生广泛在一个以上的学科。 与加州州立大学系统，社区学院和其他教育机构，我们将招收来自广泛的文化和经济背景的学生。 加州州的人口结构，特别是中央谷农业区的人口结构，为代表性不足的群体提供了丰富的潜在申请人。 我们将与利弗莫尔和桑迪亚国家实验室建立强有力的互动关系。S. IGERT是一个全国科学基金会范围内的计划，旨在促进建立创新的，以研究为基础的研究生课程，将培养一个多元化的科学家和工程师群体做好充分准备，以利用广泛的职业选择。IGERT为博士机构提供了一个开发新的，重点突出的多学科研究生课程的机会，这些课程超越了组织界限，并将来自多个部门或机构的教师联合起来，为培训和研究建立一个高度互动，协作的环境。在该计划的第二年，该奖项将颁发给21个机构，这些机构的项目涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。该奖项由数学和物理科学（多学科活动办公室），科学，生物科学，工程以及教育和人力资源局的资金支持。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program in education and research at the interface of materials science and environmental science. Nanophases, small particles with very high surface areas, occur ubiquitously and interact strongly with living matter. The underlying characterization and fundamental science of nanomaterials is similar wherever such particles occur. The NEAT program will educate students in four interrelated areas: the fundamental science and technology of nanophases, the transport and transformation of nanophases in the environment, the interaction of nanophases with the biosphere, and the policy issues raised by nanoparticles in the environment. Students will come from backgrounds as diverse as solid state physics, geology, and microbiology. A set of courses, lab rotations, internships, and research opportunities will educate these students broadly in more than one discipline. With the California State College system, the community colleges, and other educational institutions, we will recruit students from a wide range of cultural and economic backgrounds. The demographics of the State of California, and of the Central Valley agricultural area in particular, provides a rich pool of potential applicants from underrepresented groups. We will build strong interactions with Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories, the U. S. Geological Survey, and industrial partners.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to facilitate the establishment of innovative, research-based graduate programs that will train a diverse group of scientists and engineers to be well-prepared to take advantage of a broad spectrum of career options. IGERT provides doctoral institutions with an opportunity to develop new, well-focussed multidisciplinary graduate programs that transcend organizational boundaries and unite faculty from several departments or institutions to establish a highly interactive, collaborative environment for both training and research. In this second year of the program, awards are being made to twenty-one institutions for programs that collectively span all areas of science and engineering supported by NSF. This specific award is supported by funds from the Directorates for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Office of Multidisciplinary Activities), Sciences, for Biological Sciences, for Engineering, and for Education and Human Resources.