IGERT: Soft Interfaces - Bridging the Divide in Graduate education (iBriD)

IGERT：软接口 - 弥合研究生教育的鸿沟 (iBriD)

• 批准号: 1068780
• 负责人: Cristina Marchetti
• 金额: $ 258.63万
• 依托单位: Syracuse University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1068780&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Soft; Interfaces; Bridging; Divide

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award supports an interdisciplinary program at Syracuse University to train Ph.D. scientists and engineers that can seamlessly move between fundamental and applied research. Intellectual Merit: The overarching theme of the proposed research is the physics and chemistry of interfaces on a variety of scales and the manipulation of interfaces for guiding the assembly of novel materials with reconfigurable or bioactive properties. Students? projects will focus in one of three areas: biological membranes, biomaterials interfaces, and nanostructured interfaces. To meet the challenges of this interdisciplinary field, in-depth instruction in one of the four participating traditional disciplines (biology, biomedical and chemical engineering, chemistry and physics) is complemented by cross-disciplinary IGERT courses. Key traits of the educational program are: early engagement in research; development of effective skills for interdisciplinary collaboration and communication; use of shared laboratory facilities; and courses and seminars designed to train civically responsible scientists. The recently established Syracuse Biomaterials Institute (SBI) to which many of the IGERT faculty participants belong, provides unity to the effort. Collaborations with colleagues at UNAM (Cuernavaca, Mexico) Technische Universität (Munich, Germany), and Institute Curie (Paris, France) provide opportunities for research experience abroad.Broader impacts include the development of a diverse cohort of future Ph.D.-level scientists and engineers who are not only skilled at producing new knowledge in a highly interdisciplinary area at the forefront of modern research, but are also deeply committed to communicating their findings to the public and making their voices heard among policymakers. A cultural change in graduate education at Syracuse University is engendered through the blending of interdisciplinary and collaborative research training with instruction in science policy, science communication and ethics, drawn from the Maxwell School and the Newhouse School of Public Communications.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.

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持在锡拉丘兹大学培养博士的跨学科计划。科学家和工程师可以在基础研究和应用研究之间无缝切换。智力优势：拟议研究的首要主题是各种尺度上的界面的物理和化学以及界面的操纵，以指导具有可重构或生物活性特性的新型材料的组装。学生？项目将集中在三个领域之一：生物膜，生物材料界面和纳米结构界面。为了应对这一跨学科领域的挑战，在四个参与传统学科（生物学，生物医学和化学工程，化学和物理学）之一的深入教学是由跨学科IGERT课程的补充。教育计划的主要特点是：早期参与研究;发展跨学科合作和交流的有效技能;使用共享实验室设施;以及旨在培养负责任的科学家的课程和研讨会。最近成立的锡拉丘兹生物材料研究所（SBI），IGERT的许多教师参与者所属，提供了统一的努力。与墨西哥国立自治大学（库埃尔纳瓦卡，墨西哥）、工业大学（慕尼黑，德国）和居里研究所（巴黎，法国）的同事合作，为海外研究经验提供了机会。更广泛的影响包括培养未来博士的多元化群体。这些科学家和工程师不仅擅长在现代研究前沿的高度跨学科领域创造新知识，而且还坚定地致力于向公众传播他们的研究成果，让决策者听到他们的声音。锡拉丘兹大学研究生教育的文化变革是通过跨学科和合作研究培训与科学政策，科学传播和伦理学教学的融合而产生的，来自麦克斯韦学校和纽豪斯公共传播学院。IGERT是一个旨在应对美国博士教育挑战的NSF范围内的计划。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。