IGERT Full Proposal: Integrative Human Evolutionary Biology

9987590伯纳德·伍德-乔治华盛顿大学IGERT：综合人类进化生物学这项综合研究生教育和研究培训（IGERT）奖支持建立一个多学科、多机构的人类进化生物学教育和研究研究生培训计划。人类进化生物学博士课程（HEBDP）是一个研究生课程，将人类学与分子和有机生物学，化学，工程和地质学联系起来，促进跨学科研究，强调实验和比较方法来研究人类进化史。HEBDP是乔治华盛顿大学、霍华德大学、马里兰大学、史密森学会和其他华盛顿特区研究人员的合作项目。人类进化史的证据得到了充分的研究，具有不容置疑的社会和科学重要性。然而，尽管有丰富的化石、考古、分子、古生态和比较数据，像原始人系统发育、两足运动、饮食、语言和认知的进化，以及环境变化对人类进化的影响，反之亦然，这些基本问题仍然知之甚少。我们在知识上的这些差距部分是因为很少有学生接受过测试进化论假设所需的分析、实验和概念技能的新训练。HEBDP将课程与创新的基于问题的学习研讨会、实习和研究相结合，培养学生研究我们物种化石、考古和遗传记录的新方法。由于人类进化研究具有广泛的社会和医学意义，HEBDP包括有效向公众传播科学所需技能的培训。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足培养具有多学科背景和未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能的博士科学家和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在通过建立新的、创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个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。在该计划的第三年，奖项将颁发给19个机构，这些机构的项目涵盖了NSF支持的所有科学和工程领域。这一特殊奖项的学术重点在于社会、行为和经济科学理事会；生物科学;数学和物理科学；工程;地球科学;教育与人力资源。

9987590Bernard Wood - George Washington UniversityIGERT: Integrative Human Evolutionary BiologyThis Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) award supports the establishment of a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional, graduate training program of education and research on human evolutionary biology. The Human Evolutionary Biology Doctoral Program (HEBDP) is a graduate program linking anthropology with molecular and organismal biology, chemistry, engineering and geology that promotes interdisciplinary research emphasizing experimental and comparative methods for studying human evolutionary history. HEBDP is a collaboration between George Washington University, Howard University, the University of Maryland, the Smithsonian Institution, and other Washington DC area researchers. The evidence for our species' evolutionary history is well studied and of unquestionable social and scientific importance. Yet, despite a wealth of fossil, archaeological, molecular, paleoecological and comparative data, issues as basic as hominid phylogeny, the evolution of bipedal locomotion, diet, language and cognition, and the effects of environmental change on human evolution, and vice versa, remain poorly understood. These gaps in our knowledge partly occur because few students are trained in the new range of analytical, experimental and conceptual skills needed to test evolutionary hypotheses. HEBDP will combine coursework with innovative problem-based learning seminars, internships and research to train students in new methods for studying our species' fossil, archaeological and genetic records. Because human evolutionary research has broad social and medical implications, HEBDP includes training in skills required for the effective public dissemination of science. IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the multidisciplinary backgrounds 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 new, innovative models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the third year of the program, awards are being made to nineteen institutions for programs that collectively span all areas of science and engineering supported by NSF. The intellectual foci of this specific award reside in the Directorates for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences; Biological Sciences; Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Engineering; Geosciences; and Education and Human Resources.