IGERT: Model-based Approaches to Biological and Cultural Evolution

IGERT：基于模型的生物和文化进化方法

• 批准号: 0549425
• 负责人: Timothy Kohler
• 金额: $ 307.26万
• 依托单位: Washington State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-06-15 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0549425&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Model; based; Approaches; Biological

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award establishes a novel Ph.D. training program designed to bridge the gap between anthropology and biology. The program provides students in both fields a common curriculum that emphasizes evolutionary processes of adaptation and diversification in genetic, behavioral, and cultural domains. Students will become adept in state-of-the-art methods including computational modeling, game theory and phylogenetic analysis that are applicable to study of evolutionary processes across these domains. Students enter the program through the Department of Anthropology or the School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University, Pullman, or through the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle. They spend at least one term taking courses or pursuing research at the sister institution, and form research teams across these universities and disciplines, allowing them to draw on relevant expertise in either sponsoring university. In addition they have the opportunity to pursue research at a domestic partner, the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, and at three international partners: the Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity, University College London; Le Centre Universitaire de Recherche et de Documentation en Histoire et Archologie, Central African Republic; and the University of Costa Rica. The program aims to educate professionals versed in evolutionary approaches integrating the study of biology and culture, familiar with the most important perspectives and quantitative techniques for studying culture change and the evolution of social behavior in both humans and non-humans. Outreach to area schools and local native American groups is planned to strengthen the teaching of evolution in K-12 schools and to increase the breadth of approaches for understanding evolution. 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.

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖建立了一个新的博士学位。旨在弥合人类学和生物学之间差距的培训计划。该计划为这两个领域的学生提供了一个共同的课程，强调遗传，行为和文化领域的适应和多样化的进化过程。学生将熟练掌握最先进的方法，包括计算建模，博弈论和系统发育分析，适用于研究这些领域的进化过程。学生通过人类学系或生物科学学院在华盛顿州立大学，普尔曼，或通过人类学系在华盛顿，西雅图大学进入程序。他们至少花一个学期的时间在姐妹机构学习课程或进行研究，并在这些大学和学科中组建研究团队，使他们能够利用赞助大学的相关专业知识。此外，他们还有机会在一个国内合作伙伴-新墨西哥州的圣达菲研究所-和三个国际合作伙伴-伦敦大学学院文化多样性演变中心、中非共和国历史和考古学研究和文献大学中心以及哥斯达黎加大学进行研究。该计划旨在教育精通进化方法的专业人士，将生物学和文化的研究相结合，熟悉研究文化变化和人类和非人类社会行为进化的最重要观点和定量技术。计划对地区学校和当地美洲土著群体进行外联，以加强K-12学校的进化论教学，并扩大理解进化论的方法的广度。 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。