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

IGERT：软接口 - 弥合研究生教育的鸿沟 (iBriD)

• 批准号: 1068780
• 负责人: Cristina Marchetti
• 金额: $ 258.63万
• 依托单位: Syracuse University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1068780&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IGERT; Soft; Interfaces; Bridging; Divide

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.

该综合研究生教育和研究实习 (IGERT) 奖项支持雪城大学的跨学科项目，以培养能够在基础研究和应用研究之间无缝转换的博士科学家和工程师：拟议研究的首要主题是物理学。各种尺度的界面化学以及指导具有可重构或生物活性特性的新型材料组装的界面操作？学生项目将集中在三个领域之一：生物膜、生物材料。为了应对这一跨学科领域的挑战，对四个参与的传统学科（生物学、生物医学和化学工程、化学和物理学）之一的深入教学辅以跨学科 IGERT 课程。教育计划包括：早期参与研究；开发跨学科合作和交流的有效技能；以及旨在培训有公民责任的科学家的课程和研讨会。许多 IGERT 教职人员的参与为这项工作提供了团结，与墨西哥国立自治大学（墨西哥库埃纳瓦卡）、德国慕尼黑工业大学和法国巴黎居里研究所的同事们合作提供了获得国外研究经验的机会。培养未来博士级科学家和工程师的多样化群体，他们不仅擅长在现代研究前沿的高度跨学科领域产生新知识，而且还致力于将他们的发现传达给雪城大学研究生教育的文化变革是通过将跨学科和协作研究培训与来自麦克斯韦学院和纽豪斯学院的科学政策、科学传播和伦理学教学相结合而产生的。 IGERT 是一个 NSF 范围内的项目，旨在应对教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，这些科学家和工程师具有跨学科背景、所选学科的深厚知识以及公共传播所需的技术、专业和个人技能。的职业要求该计划旨在通过在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，促进研究生教育的文化变革。