IGERT in Urban Ecology

这个综合性的研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持亚利桑那州立大学城市生态学教育和研究的多学科研究生培训计划。主要的研究地点是凤凰城和亚利桑那州中部，但历史（通过考古学）和比较的方法。智力上的优点。 该计划的目的是为博士生提供与城市生态学相关的自然和社会科学的增强型跨学科合作培训。培训将涉及团队研究，通过学生发起的研讨会，跨学科的“问题”研讨会，在城市生态学论文研究与明确的合作组成部分，和国际经验。 该项目更广泛的影响包括密切关注研究的开展以及科学与法律、政策和公共领域的接触。与美国大多数基于独立的博士课程不同，该课程将使用和调查相互依存（协作，合作）作为研究模式的有效性。其前提是，在城市等重要领域的科学研究越来越多的是多学科的，但学生通常很少接受直接的培训或经验，在合作研究策略和群体动力学必要的学科之间的有效沟通。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士的挑战。具有跨学科背景的科学家和工程师，在所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中促进研究生教育的文化变革。

This integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and research in urban ecology at Arizona State University. The primary study site is Phoenix and central Arizona but both historic (through archeology) and comparative approaches are employed. Intellectual merit. The purpose of the program is to provide doctoral students with enhanced cross disciplinary collaborative training in the natural and social sciences relevant to urban ecology, broadly construed. Training will involve team research through student-originated workshops, interdisciplinary "issues" seminars, dissertation research in urban ecology with an explicitly collaborative component, and an international experience. Broader impacts of the project include close attention to the conduct of research and the engagement of science with law, policy, and the public sphere. Unlike most doctoral programs in the United States that are based on independence, this program will use and investigate the efficacy of interdependence (collaboration, cooperation) as a research mode. The premise is that scientific investigation in important arenas such as cities is increasingly multidisciplinary, yet students commonly receive little direct training or experience in collaborative research strategies and group dynamics necessary for effective communication among disciplines. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, 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 innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.