IGERT: Educating and the Interface: Nanomaterial Environmental Impacts and Policy (EI-NEIP)

这一综合性研究生教育与研究培训(IGERT)奖创建了一个新的跨学科研究生培训计划，重点是卡内基梅隆大学和霍华德大学与纳米技术的环境影响中心合作的纳米技术、其环境影响和政策。该计划将在科学和环境政策的界面上运作，并将培养出一代熟悉环境和政策的纳米科学专业人员，他们拥有评估和管理与纳米材料相关的环境风险所需的技能。该计划的目标是在创新和刺激的教育体验中促进知识的创造和思想的交流，这不仅将促进我们对环境中纳米粒子的了解，也将促进我们对如何最好地避免其潜在负面后果的理解。更广泛的影响包括对跨学科博士级别的科学家和工程师的培训，他们除了接受严格的科学培训外，还将了解良好的环境管理原则、与纳米技术有关的社会关切，并准备在应对环境风险方面发挥领导作用。来自多个学科的研究生将参加这个为期两年的培训计划，他们将在这个为期两年的培训计划中学习核心学科的基础知识，并在新的纳米技术主题课程中熟练地分析与纳米技术、决策科学和政策分析有关的环境问题。为了促进跨学科研究，学生将得到来自不同学科的至少两名教员的建议，并将参与与国际合作伙伴的实验室交流。IGERT是一个NSF范围的项目，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 creates a new interdisciplinary graduate training program whose focus is nanotechnology, its environmental effects, and policy at Carnegie Mellon and Howard University, in collaboration with the Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology. This program will operate at the interface of science and environmental policy and will produce an environmentally- and policy-literate generation of nanoscience professionals with the skills needed to assess and manage environmental risks associated with nanomaterials. The program's goal is to foster the creation of knowledge and the exchange of ideas within an innovative and stimulating educational experience that will advance not only our knowledge of nanoparticles in the environment but also our understanding of how best to avoid their potential negative consequences. Broader impacts include the training of interdisciplinary Ph.D.-level scientists and engineers who, in addition to receiving rigorous scientific training, will have an understanding of the principles of good environmental stewardship, societal concerns as they relate to nanotechnology, and will be prepared to take leadership roles in dealing with environmental risk. Graduate students from multiple disciplines will participate in this two-year training program where they will learn the fundamentals of their core discipline and gain proficiency in the analysis of environmental issues pertaining to nanotechnology, decision science, and policy analysis, in new nanotechnology-themed courses. To promote interdisciplinary research students will be advised by at least two faculty members from different academic disciplines and will participate in laboratory exchanges with international partners.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.