IGERT: Model-based Approaches to Biological and Cultural Evolution

这一综合性研究生教育和研究培训(IGERT)奖建立了一个新颖的博士培训计划，旨在弥合人类学和生物学之间的差距。该计划为这两个领域的学生提供共同的课程，强调在遗传、行为和文化领域适应和多样化的进化过程。学生将熟练掌握最先进的方法，包括计算建模、博弈论和系统发育分析，这些方法适用于研究这些领域的进化过程。学生可以通过普尔曼华盛顿州立大学人类学系或生物科学学院，或通过西雅图华盛顿大学人类学系进入该项目。他们至少花一个学期在姊妹大学学习课程或从事研究，并组建跨越这些大学和学科的研究团队，使他们能够利用两所赞助大学中的任何一所大学的相关专业知识。此外，他们还有机会在一个国内合作伙伴--新墨西哥州的圣达菲研究所和三个国际合作伙伴--伦敦大学学院文化多样性演变中心、中非共和国历史与考古文献研究中心和哥斯达黎加大学开展研究。该项目旨在培养精通将生物学和文化研究整合在一起的进化方法的专业人员，熟悉研究文化变化和人类和非人类社会行为演变的最重要的视角和量化技术。计划与地区学校和当地美洲土著群体进行接触，以加强K-12学校的进化论教学，并增加理解进化论的方法的广度。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 Traineeship (IGERT) award establishes a novel Ph.D. training program designed to bridge the gap between anthropology and biology. The program provides students in both fields a common curriculum that emphasizes evolutionary processes of adaptation and diversification in genetic, behavioral, and cultural domains. Students will become adept in state-of-the-art methods including computational modeling, game theory and phylogenetic analysis that are applicable to study of evolutionary processes across these domains. Students enter the program through the Department of Anthropology or the School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University, Pullman, or through the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle. They spend at least one term taking courses or pursuing research at the sister institution, and form research teams across these universities and disciplines, allowing them to draw on relevant expertise in either sponsoring university. In addition they have the opportunity to pursue research at a domestic partner, the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, and at three international partners: the Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity, University College London; Le Centre Universitaire de Recherche et de Documentation en Histoire et Archologie, Central African Republic; and the University of Costa Rica. The program aims to educate professionals versed in evolutionary approaches integrating the study of biology and culture, familiar with the most important perspectives and quantitative techniques for studying culture change and the evolution of social behavior in both humans and non-humans. Outreach to area schools and local native American groups is planned to strengthen the teaching of evolution in K-12 schools and to increase the breadth of approaches for understanding evolution. 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.