NRT-ROL: Interdisciplinary Studies of the Phenotype: EXPANDing Training in Research and Careers

NRT-ROL：表型的跨学科研究：扩展研究和职业培训

• 批准号: 2021791
• 负责人: Laura Galloway
• 金额: $ 300万
• 依托单位: University of Virginia Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2021791&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NRT; ROL; Interdisciplinary; Studies; Phenotype

The phenotype is at the center of virtually every process in the life sciences, from disease susceptibility and pathogen virulence, to agricultural yield, to invasions of introduced species, to the sustainability of management practices. Discovering how the phenotype is built and interacts with the environment is a key to solving the real-world challenges that range from human health and disease, to food security, to managing biological and ecological diversity in the face of anthropogenic impacts on the environment. 21st century life scientists will need to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries to transform the understanding of complex traits and solve these problems. Professionals in health care, agriculture, conservation, management and data science all require a new integrative training to move past the constrained thinking of traditional research silos. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship award to the University of Virginia will address these demands through a new cross-scale graduate curriculum and a programmatic focus on professional development and career preparation in the life sciences. The traineeship anticipates providing a unique interdisciplinary training opportunity to over 130 students, including 30 funded trainees, across the life sciences from Biomedical Sciences, to Biology, Psychology, and Environmental Sciences, developing an explicitly integrated approach to education and a culture that embraces diversity, creates innovation, and fosters professional development. Trainees will vertically integrate ideas and techniques from across the life sciences and generate a network of collaborations across traditional disciplines that will transform the way that the phenotype is investigated. The training program introduces a new graduate curriculum that combines innovative cross-scale research training with development of a broad quantitative toolkit. Professional development that includes formal preparation for a diverse range of careers through career exploration and internships, as well as communication and quantitative skills, will be woven throughout graduate training to produce trainees that contribute to a broad range of societal challenges. The program will enhance diversity in the life sciences through a culture of inclusivity that runs from science to scientist including recruiting, mentoring, and training for both non-academic and academic careers. The program will develop connections with UVA Career Services and the School for Data Sciences and enhance the fledgling PhD+ program, leading to lasting institutional change in graduate training. Program innovations will be shared with other institutions through career services and graduate training networks. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该表型几乎是生命科学的每个过程的中心，从疾病的易感性和病原体毒力到农业产量，再到引入物种的入侵，再到管理实践的可持续性。发现表型的建造方式并与环境相互作用是解决从人类健康和疾病到粮食安全，再到面对人为对环境影响的生物学和生态多样性的现实挑战的关键。 21世纪的生活科学家将需要超越传统的纪律界限，以改变对复杂特征的理解并解决这些问题。 卫生保健，农业，保护，管理和数据科学专业人士都需要进行新的综合培训，以超越对传统研究孤岛的有限思想。这项国家科学基金会的研究培训奖授予弗吉尼亚大学，将通过新的跨尺度研究生课程解决这些要求，并将重点放在生命科学的专业发展和职业准备方面。学员们预计，从生物医学科学到生物学，到生物学，心理学和环境科学，为130多名学生提供独特的跨学科培训机会，以开发一种明确综合的教育方法，并具有多样性，创造了创新和专业发展。学员将垂直整合来自整个生命科学的思想和技术，并在传统学科中建立一个合作网络，这将改变表型的研究方式。该培训计划介绍了一种新的研究生课程，该课程将创新的跨尺度研究培训与开发广泛的定量工具包相结合。专业发展包括通过职业探索和实习以及沟通和定量技能为各种职业做好准备的正式准备，将在整个研究生培训中编织，以培养有助于各种社会挑战的学员。该计划将通过从科学到科学家的包容性文化来增强生命科学的多样性，包括为非学术和学术职业的招聘，指导和培训。该计划将与UVA职业服务和数据科学学校建立联系，并增强刚起步的博士学位+计划，从而导致研究生培训的持久机构变化。计划创新将通过职业服务和研究生培训网络与其他机构共享。 NSF研究训练（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施用于STEM研究生教育培训的大胆，新的潜在变革模型。该计划致力于通过全面的跨学科或收敛性研究领域的STEM研究生进行有效培训，通过全面的培训模型，这些模型具有创新性，基于循证的，并且与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求保持一致。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识优点和广泛影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被视为值得的支持。