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）奖支持进化灵长类动物学（NYCEP）的纽约联盟的进一步发展，该计划利用了纽约市五个机构的教师和资源：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）。该计划涵盖了“进化灵长类动物学”的综合性和跨学科领域，该领域将广泛的自然科学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。这个更新奖项允许NYCEP扩大其在保护科学和人类进化方面的培训;实施一些创新的课程计划，以确保跨学科性;重组培训计划，使学生能够更快地取得博士学位。并提前公布;扩大国际研究机会;发展与罗格斯大学、哥伦比亚拉蒙特-多尔蒂地球观测站和AMNH的地质科学项目、马克斯-普朗克研究所/莱比锡和图宾根大学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的新伙伴关系;扩大与AMNH的理查德·吉尔德研究生院以及与WCS的保护科学的关系;开发新的方法来招募代表性不足的群体;并通过让研究生更广泛地参与NYCEP范围内的活动来加强NYCEP社区。这个创新的培训计划产生的研究生谁是专业和技术资格，以领导科学研究，教育和公共宣传在一个日益社会政治复杂，跨学科和全球竞技场。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士学位的挑战。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 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.