The Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science

0336343Kenkre追求全球培训劳动力的目标的一个成功的战略依赖于学生接触到美国科学家个人和他们在外国的同行之间的合作研究。 这往往涉及教师和学生招聘相当大的努力，但在为学生提供国际经验，特别是与较发达国家的经验是相当成功的。这个美洲计划奖支持一种新的方法来创建一个全球多样化的劳动力，这可能更适用于发展中国家，依靠新墨西哥州大学的跨学科科学美洲联盟的经验，使美国科学家和拉丁美洲科学家之间的合作得到加强和富有成效。 通过强有力的跨学科方向和与教育的明确联系，该联盟将为国际合作和学生交流提供协调框架，鼓励拉丁美洲杰出研究人员及其学生到新墨西哥州进行短期访问，在美国和拉丁美洲组织国际研讨会，并支持美国学生和教师到拉丁美洲进行合作研究访问。跨学科的网络和伙伴关系，预计将发展，由大学和附近的国家实验室的智力和文化资源的支持下，这将导致更成熟的合作和交流的美国学生和教师，在此赠款的支持下，中心和实验室在拉丁美洲.三个研究主题将追求：生物相关的复杂系统，新材料，和纳米尺度和中尺度科学.拟议的工作将侧重于汇集来自美洲的物理学家、生物学家、化学家、数学家和工程师及其学生。其目的是深入了解没有这种多学科方法就无法解决的困难和具有挑战性的问题。 研究工作将解决当前对生物技术和公共卫生的基础和应用方面的兴趣激增，包括对传染病传播，生物膜的形成和特性以及细菌菌落动态的基本和实际了解。来自美洲的具有各种背景的研究人员将在从原子到宏观的完全不同的长度尺度上对过程进行研究。新材料，如自组装实体和颗粒压块将进行研究。将处理那些因其技术或人类重要性以及因其构成的固有科学挑战而重要的问题。 跨学科的基本理解的方法形成了拟议的合作的关键要素，并将指导学生交流和他们参与国际活动。

0336343KenkreOne successful strategy in pursuing the goal of a globally trained workforce relies on students' exposure to collaborative research between individual U.S. scientists and their counterparts in foreign countries. This often involves considerable efforts in faculty and student recruitment but is quite successful in providing students with an international experience, particularly with the more developed countries. This Americas Program award supports a novel approach to the creation of a globally diverse workforce, that may be more applicable to developing countries, by relying on the experience of the Consortium of the Americas for Interdisciplinary Science of the University of New Mexico to bring about enhanced and productive collaborations between scientists in the U.S. and scientists from Latin America. Through a strong interdisciplinary orientation and explicit linkages to education, the Consortium will provide a coordinated framework for international cooperation and student exchanges by encouraging short-term visits by outstanding Latin American researchers and their students to New Mexico, organizing international workshops in the US and in Latin America, and supporting collaborative research visits by US students and faculty to Latin America. Interdisciplinary networks and partnerships are expected to develop, abetted by the intellectual and cultural resources of the university and the national laboratories nearby, that will lead to more mature collaborations and exchanges of US students and faculty, supported under this grant, to centers and laboratories in Latin America.Three research themes will be pursued: biologically relevant complex systems, novel materials, and nanoscale and mesoscale science. The proposed work will focus on bringing together physicists, biologists, chemists, mathematicians and engineers and their students from the Americas. The purpose is to gain insights into difficult and challenging problems that would not be solved without such a multidisciplinary approach. Research efforts will address the current explosion of interest in fundamental and applied aspects of biotechnology, and public health, including a basic and practical understanding of the spread of infectious diseases, of the formation and properties of biofilms, and of the dynamics of bacterial colonies. Investigators from the Americas with a variety of backgrounds will carry out research on processes at drastically different length scales, from the atomistic to the macroscopic. Novel materials such as self-assembled entities and granular compacts will be investigated. Problems that are important both because of their technological or human importance, and because of the inherent scientific challenges they pose, will be tackled. Interdisciplinary approaches to a fundamental understanding form the key element of the proposed collaborations and will guide student exchanges and their involvement in international activities.