IGERT: Integrated Science and Engineering of Stem Cells

这一综合性研究生教育和研究培训计划(IGERT)更新奖建立了一个专注于干细胞科学和工程的培训计划。博士研究的新的交叉方向，以及新的多学科研究生课程，将把干细胞生物学与生物材料、过程工程和计算建模的研究结合起来。学员将参加IGERT研究交流论坛，以培养他们跨不同学科进行交流的能力。包括教学、指导和推广在内的专业发展活动将使IGERT受训人员能够更好地认识到他们的技术诀窍的影响。每名IGERT学员将由来自工程学、分子生物科学、物理科学、商业、公共政策和管理的30多名教职员工的学者顾问指导。IGERT项目将利用罗格斯大学活跃的“多元化基础设施”，帮助未被充分代表的少数族裔学生更广泛地参与。除了为来访的人数不足的本科生提供研究机会外，IGERT还将提供两项新举措：在罗格斯大学开设师生暑期学院，以及建立通往IGERT的桥梁项目。干细胞科学和工程与公共政策和商业相结合的新外展项目包括：(1)与管理和劳资关系学院合作，将IGERT研究和课程“捆绑”成便携模块，用于科学劳动力培训；(2)罗格斯商学院与制药管理学生和行业的互动；(3)由伊格尔顿政治研究所推动的与政策制定者的公共政策研讨会。IGERT实习生将通过在欧洲和亚洲超过15个地点的领先干细胞研究人员的实习和研讨会获得全球视角。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、所选学科的深厚知识以及满足未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目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，催化研究生教育的文化变革。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program (IGERT) renewal award establishes a training program focused on the science and engineering of stem cells. New cross-cutting thrusts for Ph.D. research, together with a new multidisciplinary graduate curriculum, will integrate stem cell biology with research in biomaterials, process engineering, and computational modeling. Trainees will participate in an IGERT Research Interchange Forum to develop their abilities to communicate across disparate disciplines. Professional development activities encompassing teaching, mentoring, and outreach will enable IGERT trainees to better realize the impact of their technological know-how. Each IGERT trainee will be guided by an advisory constellation of scholars drawn from over 30 faculty members from Engineering, Molecular Biosciences, Physical Sciences, Business, Public Policy, and Management. The IGERT program will leverage Rutgers' active "diversity infrastructure" to help broaden the participation of underrepresented minority students. In addition to providing research opportunities for visiting underrepresented undergraduates, the IGERT will offer two new initiatives: a teacher-student summer institute at Rutgers, and, a bridge-to-IGERT program. New outreach programs at the intersection of stem cell science and engineering with public policy and business include: (1) an initiative with the School of Management and Labor Relations to "bundle" IGERT research and curriculum into portable modules for scientific workforce training; (2) Rutgers Business School-mediated interactions with pharmaceutical management students and industry; (3) public policy workshops with policy makers, facilitated by the Eagleton Institute of Politics. IGERT trainees will acquire global perspectives through internships and workshops with leading stem cell researchers at over 15 sites in Europe and Asia. 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.