IGERT: The Interdisciplinary Minerals, Metals, Metalloids, and Toxicity (3MT) Graduate Training and Education Program

该综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持在石溪大学建立矿产、金属、类金属和毒性（3MT）教育和研究的多学科研究生培训计划。3MT计划将培养新一代的科学家，他们将在环境和生命科学的界面工作，以了解矿物，金属和类金属如何影响最终影响人类和动物健康的生物过程。由来自地球科学、药理学、物理、化学、海洋科学、生物化学、病理学和医学等部门的教师指导的跨学科研究团队将解决与主题相关的具体研究问题。此外，3MT项目将与美国地质勘探局的一个科学家团队合作，领导该机构新的、全国性的、为期十年的倡议，以评估人类与地表环境之间的相互作用。通过这次合作，学生们将在全国环境项目的背景下进行研究。3MT项目将提供新的模块化课程和研讨会。这些讲习班将提供实用技能培训，以支持研究项目，并为学生成为跨学科科学家做好准备。3MT学生将为来自大纽约大都会地区相关培训项目的研究生组织年度区域性聚会。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，他们具有跨学科背景，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模式，在一个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 the establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and research in Minerals, Metals, Metalloids, and Toxicity (3MT) at Stony Brook University. The 3MT program will train a new generation of scientists who will work at the interface of environmental and life sciences to understand how minerals, metals and metalloids affect biological processes that ultimately impact on the health of human and animals. Interdisciplinary research teams, advised by faculty drawn from the departments of Geosciences, Pharmacological Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Marine Sciences, Biochemistry, Pathology, and Medicine, will address specific research questions related to the theme. In addition, the 3MT program will collaborate with a team of USGS scientists leading the agencys new, nation-wide and decade-long initiative to assess the interaction between humans and their surficial environment. Through this collaboration, students will conduct their research in the context of a nation-wide environmental program. The 3MT Program will offer new modular courses and workshops. The workshops will provide training in practical skills in support of research projects and prepare students for careers as interdisciplinary scientists. 3MT students will organize an annual regional gathering for graduate scholars from related training programs in the greater New York Metropolitan area. 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.