IGERT in Urban Ecology

这一综合性研究生教育与研究培训(IGERT)奖支持亚利桑那州立大学城市生态教育与研究的多学科研究生培训计划。主要的研究地点是凤凰城和亚利桑那州中部，但同时采用了历史(通过考古)和比较的方法。智力上的优点。该计划的目的是为博士生提供与城市生态相关的自然和社会科学方面的强化跨学科协作培训。培训将包括团队研究，通过学生发起的研讨会，跨学科的“问题”研讨会，带有明确合作成分的城市生态学的论文研究，以及国际经验。该项目的更广泛影响包括密切关注研究的开展以及科学与法律、政策和公共领域的接触。与美国大多数以独立为基础的博士项目不同，该项目将使用并调查相互依赖(协作，合作)的有效性作为一种研究模式。前提是，城市等重要领域的科学调查越来越多地涉及多学科，但学生通常很少接受关于协作研究战略和群体动力方面的直接培训或经验，这是学科之间有效沟通所必需的。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、所选学科的深厚知识以及满足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 supports a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and research in urban ecology at Arizona State University. The primary study site is Phoenix and central Arizona but both historic (through archeology) and comparative approaches are employed. Intellectual merit. The purpose of the program is to provide doctoral students with enhanced cross disciplinary collaborative training in the natural and social sciences relevant to urban ecology, broadly construed. Training will involve team research through student-originated workshops, interdisciplinary "issues" seminars, dissertation research in urban ecology with an explicitly collaborative component, and an international experience. Broader impacts of the project include close attention to the conduct of research and the engagement of science with law, policy, and the public sphere. Unlike most doctoral programs in the United States that are based on independence, this program will use and investigate the efficacy of interdependence (collaboration, cooperation) as a research mode. The premise is that scientific investigation in important arenas such as cities is increasingly multidisciplinary, yet students commonly receive little direct training or experience in collaborative research strategies and group dynamics necessary for effective communication among disciplines. 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.