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

这一综合性教育与研究培训(IGERT)奖支持纽约进化灵长类动物协会(NYCEP)的进一步发展，该计划吸引了纽约市五所机构的教师和资源：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)。该项目横跨“进化灵长类动物学”的综合和跨学科领域，它将广泛的自然科学方法和理论应用到人类和其他灵长类动物的生物学和进化研究中。这一续展奖项使NYCEP能够扩大其在保护科学和人类进化方面的培训；实施一些确保跨学科的创新课程倡议；重组培训计划，使学生能够更快地获得博士学位并更早发表文章；扩大国际研究机会；与罗格斯大学、哥伦比亚拉蒙特-多尔蒂地球天文台和AMNH的地质科学项目发展新的伙伴关系；与Max-Planck Institute/Leipzig和University Sität Tübingen的遗传学和人类进化论以及南非、肯尼亚、厄瓜多尔和秘鲁的实地行为和保护；扩大其与AMNH理查德·吉尔德研究生院的关系，并与WCS合作开展保护科学方面的工作；开发新的方法来招募代表不足的群体；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。这一创新的培训计划培养出具有专业和技术资质的研究生，能够在日益复杂的社会政治、跨学科和全球环境中领导科学研究、教育和公共宣传。IGERT是一个NSF范围的计划，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、选定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 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.