IGERT: Soft Interfaces - Bridging the Divide in Graduate education (iBriD)

这一综合性研究生教育和研究培训(IGERT)奖项支持锡拉丘兹大学的一个跨学科项目，该项目旨在培养能够在基础研究和应用研究之间无缝流动的博士科学家和工程师。智力价值：拟议研究的首要主题是各种尺度上的界面的物理和化学，以及指导组装具有可重构或生物活性的新材料的界面的操作。学生们？项目将集中在三个领域之一：生物膜、生物材料界面和纳米结构界面。为了迎接这一跨学科领域的挑战，在参与的四个传统学科(生物学、生物医学和化学工程、化学和物理)之一的深入教学中，有跨学科的IGERT课程作为补充。该教育计划的主要特点是：及早参与研究；发展跨学科合作和沟通的有效技能；使用共享的实验室设施；以及旨在培训公民责任科学家的课程和研讨会。最近成立的锡拉丘兹生物材料研究所(SBI)为这一努力提供了团结，许多IGERT教职员工都是该研究所的成员。与UNAM(墨西哥CuerNavaca)、Technische Universityät(德国慕尼黑)和Curie研究所(法国巴黎)的同事合作提供了海外研究经验的机会。广泛的影响包括培养了一批未来的博士水平的科学家和工程师，他们不仅擅长在现代研究前沿的高度跨学科领域创造新知识，而且坚定地致力于向公众传播他们的发现，并在政策制定者中发出他们的声音。雪城大学研究生教育的文化变革是通过将来自麦克斯韦尔学院和纽豪斯公共传播学院的跨学科和协作研究培训与科学政策、科学传播和伦理方面的指导相结合而产生的。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、选定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 supports an interdisciplinary program at Syracuse University to train Ph.D. scientists and engineers that can seamlessly move between fundamental and applied research. Intellectual Merit: The overarching theme of the proposed research is the physics and chemistry of interfaces on a variety of scales and the manipulation of interfaces for guiding the assembly of novel materials with reconfigurable or bioactive properties. Students? projects will focus in one of three areas: biological membranes, biomaterials interfaces, and nanostructured interfaces. To meet the challenges of this interdisciplinary field, in-depth instruction in one of the four participating traditional disciplines (biology, biomedical and chemical engineering, chemistry and physics) is complemented by cross-disciplinary IGERT courses. Key traits of the educational program are: early engagement in research; development of effective skills for interdisciplinary collaboration and communication; use of shared laboratory facilities; and courses and seminars designed to train civically responsible scientists. The recently established Syracuse Biomaterials Institute (SBI) to which many of the IGERT faculty participants belong, provides unity to the effort. Collaborations with colleagues at UNAM (Cuernavaca, Mexico) Technische Universität (Munich, Germany), and Institute Curie (Paris, France) provide opportunities for research experience abroad.Broader impacts include the development of a diverse cohort of future Ph.D.-level scientists and engineers who are not only skilled at producing new knowledge in a highly interdisciplinary area at the forefront of modern research, but are also deeply committed to communicating their findings to the public and making their voices heard among policymakers. A cultural change in graduate education at Syracuse University is engendered through the blending of interdisciplinary and collaborative research training with instruction in science policy, science communication and ethics, drawn from the Maxwell School and the Newhouse School of Public Communications.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.