IGERT--Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Primatology: Conservation and Human Evolution join Behavior, Bones and Genes

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持纽约进化灵长类学联盟（NYCEP）的进一步发展，这是一个利用纽约市五个机构的教师和资源的项目：纽约城市大学、哥伦比亚大学、纽约大学、美国自然历史博物馆（AMNH）和野生动物保护协会（WCS）。该项目涵盖了“进化灵长类学”的综合和跨学科领域，将自然科学的广泛方法和理论应用于人类和其他灵长类动物的生物学和进化研究。这个更新奖使NYCEP能够扩大其在保护科学和人类进化方面的培训；推行多项创新课程，确保跨学科合作；重组培训计划，使学生能够更快地获得博士学位，并更早地发表论文；扩大国际研究机会；与罗格斯大学、哥伦比亚大学拉蒙特-多尔蒂地球观测站和美国国立卫生研究院的地质科学项目、马克斯-普朗克研究所/莱比锡和Universität t<e:1>宾根的遗传学和人类进化项目，以及南非、肯尼亚、厄瓜多尔和秘鲁的野外行为和保护项目建立新的伙伴关系；扩大与AMNH的理查德·吉尔德研究生院的关系，并与WCS在保护科学方面建立联系；开发新方法招募代表性不足的群体；并通过让研究生更广泛地参与NYCEP的活动来加强NYCEP社区。这个创新的培训计划培养的研究生在专业和技术上都有资格在日益复杂的社会政治、跨学科和全球舞台上领导科学研究、教育和公共宣传。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 further development of the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP), a program that draws upon faculty and resources from five institutions in New York City: City University of New York, Columbia University, New York University, the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The program spans the integrative and interdisciplinary field of "evolutionary primatology," which applies methods and theories from a broad range of the natural sciences to the study of the biology and evolution of humans and other primates. This renewal award allows NYCEP to amplify its training in conservation science and human evolution; implement a number of innovative curricular initiatives that ensure interdisciplinarity; restructure the training program to enable students to progress faster towards the Ph.D. and publish earlier; expand international research opportunities; develop new partnerships with programs in geological sciences at Rutgers, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia, and AMNH, genetics and human evolution at Max-Planck Institute/Leipzig and Universität Tübingen, and field behavior and conservation in South Africa, Kenya, Ecuador and Peru; extend its relationships with the Richard Gilder Graduate School at AMNH and in conservation science with WCS; develop novel approaches to recruit underrepresented groups; and enhance the NYCEP community by involving graduate students more extensively in NYCEP-wide activities. This innovative training program produces graduate students who are professionally and technically qualified to lead scientific research, education and public outreach in an increasingly socio-politically complex, interdisciplinary and global arena.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.