IGERT: Water SENSE - Water Social, Engineering, and Natural Sciences Engagement

这一综合性研究生教育和研究培训奖(IGERT)支持跨学科的研究生研究培训，以改善水的数量和质量，从而减少接触水传播疾病的机会，增加饮用水供应，并改善人类福祉。随着世界人口从65亿增加到2050年的90亿，水是决定未来人类福祉的一个越来越重要的因素。随着世界发展中的S人口城市化，世界范围内对水的需求将显著增加。由于缺水与水污染有直接联系，未来与水有关的发病率和死亡率前景黯淡，特别是在没有重大公共干预的情况下。随着更多的人和国家争夺这一至关重要的资源，缺水也预示着全球政治的不稳定。智力优势：多学科团队将整合他们的学科知识，以解决加州-墨西哥边境地区复杂而严重的水问题。确定了五个主要研究主题：公共教育、水政策/管理、水中污染物检测/影响、病媒/疾病控制以及水处理和补救。通过课程作业和与政府机构的协作团队项目，受训者将体验将研究成果转化为已实施的公共政策。广泛的影响：水感IGERT将培养出能够在政府、私人和非营利组织担任领导职务的学者，他们对通过改善供水、利用和管理来改善社区健康和儿童发展成果感兴趣。学生将接受水和水传播疾病管理的所有方面的培训，包括设计、执行和评估与？以及中国的积极参与？预期受益人。其他目标是增加NSF支持的学科学生的招生和留住，并增加学生的种族多样性。IGERT是一个NSF范围内的项目，旨在应对培养具有跨学科背景、对选定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生和工程师的挑战。该项目旨在建立新的研究生教育和培训模式，为超越传统学科界限的合作研究创造一个肥沃的环境，并让学生了解将研究转化为创新以造福社会的过程。

This Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award supports inter-disciplinary graduate training in research that can improve water quantity and quality, thereby reducing exposure to waterborne diseases, increasing potable water supplies, and improving hu-man well-being. Water is an increasingly important factor in determining human well-being in the future, as the world?s population increases from 6.5 billion to 9 billion by 2050. As the de-veloping world?s population urbanizes, the demand for water worldwide will increase signifi-cantly. Since water scarcity has a direct link to water contamination, the future outlook for water-related morbidity and mortality is bleak, especially in the absence of major public interventions. Water scarcity also portends worldwide political instability as more people and nations compete for this vital resource. Intellectual Merit: Multidisciplinary teams will integrate their disciplinary knowledge towards solution of the complex and severe water problems in the California-Mexico border region. Five major research themes have been identified: public education, water policy/management, water-borne contaminant detection/effects, vector/disease control, and water treatment and remediation. Through coursework and collaborative team projects with government agencies, trainees will experience the translation of research outcomes to implemented public policy.Broader Impacts: The Water SENSE IGERT will produce scholars who can work in leadership positions in government, private, and nonprofit organizations interested in improving community health and child development outcomes via improved water supply, utilization, and management. Students will be trained in all aspects of water and waterborne disease management, including designing, executing and evaluating water-based interventions in close consultation with ? and the active participation of ? the intended beneficiaries. Other goals are to increase recruitment and retention, and to increase the ethnic diversity, of students in NSF-supported disciplines.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scien-tists 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 establish new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries, and to engage students in understanding the processes by which research is translated to innovations for societal benefit.