IGERT Full Proposal: Integrative Human Evolutionary Biology

9987590伯纳德·伍德-乔治华盛顿大学IGERT：综合人类进化生物学这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持建立一个多学科，多机构，研究生培训计划的教育和研究人类进化生物学。人类进化生物学博士课程（HEBDP）是一个研究生课程，将人类学与分子和有机生物学，化学，工程和地质学联系起来，促进跨学科研究，强调研究人类进化史的实验和比较方法。HEBDP是乔治华盛顿大学、霍华德大学、马里兰州大学、史密森学会和其他华盛顿地区研究人员之间的合作。 我们物种进化史的证据得到了很好的研究，具有不容置疑的社会和科学重要性。 然而，尽管有大量的化石、考古学、分子、古生态学和比较数据，但对原始人类的生殖、两足动物运动、饮食、语言和认知的进化以及环境变化对人类进化的影响等基本问题仍然知之甚少。 我们知识中的这些差距部分是因为很少有学生接受过测试进化假设所需的新的分析，实验和概念技能的培训。HEBDP将联合收割机课程与创新的基于问题的学习研讨会，实习和研究相结合，以培养学生研究我们物种的化石，考古和遗传记录的新方法。 由于人类进化研究具有广泛的社会和医学意义，HEBDP包括有效的科学公共传播所需的技能培训。 IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育博士的挑战。科学家和工程师与多学科背景和技术，专业和个人技能所需的未来的职业需求。 该计划旨在通过建立新的，创新的研究生教育和培训模式，促进研究生教育的文化变革，为超越传统学科界限的合作研究创造肥沃的环境。在该计划的第三年，该奖项将颁发给19个机构，这些机构的计划涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。这个特殊奖项的知识焦点位于社会，行为和经济科学局;生物科学;数学和物理科学;工程;地球科学;教育和人力资源。

9987590Bernard Wood - George Washington UniversityIGERT: Integrative Human Evolutionary BiologyThis Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the establishment of a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, graduate training program of education and research on human evolutionary biology. The Human Evolutionary Biology Doctoral Program (HEBDP) is a graduate program linking anthropology with molecular and organismal biology, chemistry, engineering and geology that promotes interdisciplinary research emphasizing experimental and comparative methods for studying human evolutionary history. HEBDP is a collaboration between George Washington University, Howard University, the University of Maryland, the Smithsonian Institution, and other Washington DC area researchers. The evidence for our species' evolutionary history is well studied and of unquestionable social and scientific importance. Yet, despite a wealth of fossil, archaeological, molecular, paleoecological and comparative data, issues as basic as hominid phylogeny, the evolution of bipedal locomotion, diet, language and cognition, and the effects of environmental change on human evolution, and vice versa, remain poorly understood. These gaps in our knowledge partly occur because few students are trained in the new range of analytical, experimental and conceptual skills needed to test evolutionary hypotheses. HEBDP will combine coursework with innovative problem-based learning seminars, internships and research to train students in new methods for studying our species' fossil, archaeological and genetic records. Because human evolutionary research has broad social and medical implications, HEBDP includes training in skills required for the effective public dissemination of science. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing new, innovative models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the third year of the program, awards are being made to nineteen institutions for programs that collectively span all areas of science and engineering supported by NSF. The intellectual foci of this specific award reside in the Directorates for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences; Biological Sciences; Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Engineering; Geosciences; and Education and Human Resources.