IGERT: Nanostructural Materials and Devices

这一综合性研究生教育和研究培训(IGERT)奖支持在纽约市和州立大学的五所机构建立一个多学科、多机构的教育和研究研究生培训计划，从而培养受过高度培训的博士，在纳米结构材料及其在光子器件中的应用领域进行多学科研究。博士毕业生将在很大程度上来自科学、工程和数学领域历史上代表性不足的群体，因为他们是从招生库中挑选出来的。导致上述结果的机制涉及纽约城市学院--与亨特学院和斯塔滕岛学院合作，作为纽约城市大学的特遣队--建立一个稳定的研究生群体，哥伦比亚大学和罗切斯特大学将有机会吸引和录取研究生。IGERT项目包括五个主要活动：(1)跨学科研究和培训；(2)新课程；(3)指导和建议学生的新战略；(4)使用视频电话会议促进IGERT学生和教职员工之间的研究、教育和交流；以及(5)引入旨在改善学生成功完成学位的机会的丰富活动。IGERT是一个NSF范围的项目，旨在促进建立创新的、以研究为基础的研究生项目，培训不同的科学家和工程师群体，为充分利用广泛的职业选择做好准备。IGERT为博士机构提供了一个机会，以开发新的、重点明确的、超越组织边界的多学科研究生课程，并团结来自几个系或机构的教师，为培训和研究建立一个高度互动、协作的环境。在该计划的第二年，将向21个机构颁发奖项，这些机构的项目共同涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。这一具体奖项由数学和物理科学(多学科活动办公室)、工程、教育和人力资源局提供资金支持。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the establishment of a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional graduate training program of education and research at five New York City and state institutions, resulting in Ph.D.s who are highly trained to conduct multidisciplinary research in areas of nanostructural materials and their uses in photonic devices. The Ph.D. graduates, because of the recruitment pool from which students are drawn, will be in large measure from groups that are historically underrepresented in science, engineering and mathematics fields. The mechanism that leads to the aforementioned outcomes involves City College of New York-working cooperatively with Hunter College and The College of Staten Island, as the City University of New York contingent-establishing a steady-state population of graduate students from which Columbia University and The University of Rochester will have the opportunity to attract and matriculate graduate students. There are five major activities that comprise this IGERT project: (1) interdisciplinary research and training; (2) new courses; (3) a new strategy for mentoring and advising students; (4) the use of video teleconferencing to facilitate research, education and communication between IGERT students and faculty; and (5) the introduction of enrichment activities that are designed to improve the prospects that students successful complete their degrees.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to facilitate the establishment of innovative, research-based graduate programs that will train a diverse group of scientists and engineers to be well-prepared to take advantage of a broad spectrum of career options. IGERT provides doctoral institutions with an opportunity to develop new, well-focussed multidisciplinary graduate programs that transcend organizational boundaries and unite faculty from several departments or institutions to establish a highly interactive, collaborative environment for both training and research. In this second year of the program, awards are being made to twenty-one institutions for programs that collectively span all areas of science and engineering supported by NSF. This specific award is supported by funds from the Directorates for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Office of Multidisciplinary Activities), for Engineering, and for Education and Human Resources.