EAGER: NESCent Ambassador Program

该奖项支持由国家进化综合中心（NESCent）开发的一项新的国际推广计划，称为NESCent大使计划。该项目将为美国科学家提供一个新的专业发展机会，同时向全世界发展中地区服务不足的科学界推广合成进化研究。NESCent大使将领导短期课程和讲习班，提供一对一和小组咨询，并参与以进化科学和信息学为主题的其他教育和推广活动。大使将同时提高美国科学家在世界各地生物多样性丰富的地区的研究能力，这些地区可以作为进化研究的关键地点。NESCent大使项目将为美国科学家（包括博士后研究员）提供新颖而有价值的培训和专业发展机会，同时为未来创新的国际推广项目提供新的模式。重要的是，它还将允许美国科学家建立国际合作网络，这对早期职业科学家来说是一个特别重要的机会。该项目将广泛传播进化信息学工具、资源和方法给国际上传统上服务不足的科学受众。最后，但重要的是，它将作为向国际观众介绍和促进综合研究的概念和实践的手段。

This award supports a new, international outreach program, developed by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), called the NESCent Ambassador Program. The program will provide a novel professional development opportunity for U.S. based scientists, while promoting synthetic evolutionary research to underserved scientific communities in developing regions throughout the world. NESCent Ambassadors will lead short courses and workshops, provide one-on-one and small group consulting and engage in other education and outreach activities focusing on topics of evolutionary science and informatics. Ambassadorships will simultaneously improve research capabilities for US scientists in areas throughout the world that are rich in biodiversity and that could serve as key locations for evolution research. The NESCent Ambassador program will provide novel and valuable training and professional development opportunities for U.S. based scientists, including postdoctoral fellows, while serving as a new model for future innovative international outreach programs. Significantly, it will also allow U.S.-based scientists to build international networks of collaborators, an opportunity that is particularly critical for early career scientists. This program will widely disseminate evolutionary informatics tools, resources and methods to an international, traditionally underserved scientific audience. Lastly, but importantly, it will serve as a means of introducing and promoting the concepts and practices of synthesis research to an international audience.