IGERT: Integrated Science and Engineering of Stem Cells

这个综合研究生教育和研究培训计划（IGERT）更新奖建立了一个专注于干细胞科学和工程的培训计划。新的跨领域博士研究重点，以及新的多学科研究生课程，将干细胞生物学与生物材料、工艺工程和计算建模研究相结合。受训人员将参加一个IGERT研究交流论坛，以发展他们跨不同学科进行交流的能力。包括教学、指导和外联在内的专业发展活动将使IGERT受训者更好地认识到他们的技术知识的影响。每一位IGERT培训生将由来自工程、分子生物科学、物理科学、商业、公共政策和管理等领域的30多名教员组成的学者咨询小组指导。IGERT项目将利用罗格斯大学积极的“多样性基础设施”，帮助扩大代表性不足的少数族裔学生的参与。除了为访问代表性不足的本科生提供研究机会外，IGERT还将提供两项新举措：在罗格斯大学建立一个师生暑期学院，以及一个通往IGERT的桥梁项目。干细胞科学和工程与公共政策和商业交叉的新拓展项目包括：(1)与管理和劳资关系学院合作，将IGERT的研究和课程“捆绑”到科学劳动力培训的便携式模块中；(2)罗格斯商学院介导的与制药管理专业学生和行业的互动；(3)由伊格尔顿政治研究所主办的公共政策研讨会。IGERT的学员将通过在欧洲和亚洲超过15个地点与领先的干细胞研究人员一起实习和研讨会，获得全球视野。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，他们具有跨学科背景，所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立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。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program (IGERT) renewal award establishes a training program focused on the science and engineering of stem cells. New cross-cutting thrusts for Ph.D. research, together with a new multidisciplinary graduate curriculum, will integrate stem cell biology with research in biomaterials, process engineering, and computational modeling. Trainees will participate in an IGERT Research Interchange Forum to develop their abilities to communicate across disparate disciplines. Professional development activities encompassing teaching, mentoring, and outreach will enable IGERT trainees to better realize the impact of their technological know-how. Each IGERT trainee will be guided by an advisory constellation of scholars drawn from over 30 faculty members from Engineering, Molecular Biosciences, Physical Sciences, Business, Public Policy, and Management. The IGERT program will leverage Rutgers' active "diversity infrastructure" to help broaden the participation of underrepresented minority students. In addition to providing research opportunities for visiting underrepresented undergraduates, the IGERT will offer two new initiatives: a teacher-student summer institute at Rutgers, and, a bridge-to-IGERT program. New outreach programs at the intersection of stem cell science and engineering with public policy and business include: (1) an initiative with the School of Management and Labor Relations to "bundle" IGERT research and curriculum into portable modules for scientific workforce training; (2) Rutgers Business School-mediated interactions with pharmaceutical management students and industry; (3) public policy workshops with policy makers, facilitated by the Eagleton Institute of Politics. IGERT trainees will acquire global perspectives through internships and workshops with leading stem cell researchers at over 15 sites in Europe and Asia. 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.