NSF PR 00-52 - August 1, 2000
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NSF Awards $49 Million to 19 Multidisciplinary Graduate
Education Programs
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded 19
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship
(IGERT) grants totaling $49 million over five years.
The IGERT program is designed to meet the challenges
of educating Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the
multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional,
and personal skills needed for the career demands
of the future.
"The good investigator of any era is equipped with
intelligence, curiosity, discipline and the urgent
desire to find the answers to difficult questions--
traditional qualities with timeless value," says NSF
director Rita Colwell. "In addition, to make certain
our young researchers are highly competitive today,
we need to embrace new kinds of training, new habits
of mind, more global ways of looking at the questions
before us. We have to give our graduates the best
experiences with the best equipment and resources
we can provide. That's what these IGERT programs are
all about."
This is the third year for these traineeship grants.
In all, NSF has made 57 awards to universities across
the country. The current awards involve researchers
and educators from 28 universities as well as from
government and industrial laboratories, non-profit
institutions, and an overseas university. Projects
supported from this year's competition cover a broad
range of topics, including urban ecology, human evolutionary
biology, computational problems in atomic and molecular
systems, advanced networking, and nanotechnology,
among others.
IGERT projects afford graduate students an in-depth
education through coursework and research experience
in emerging areas of science and engineering, areas
that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries
and involve a diverse group of faculty members. The
awards place a high priority on students' communication
and teamwork skills, international awareness, experience
with modern instrumentation, and responsible conduct
of research. The IGERT projects also link graduate
research with internships in industry, national laboratories
and other non academic settings in an effort to offer
experiences relevant to both academic and nonacademic
careers.
All NSF Directorates and the Office of Polar Programs
participate in the IGERT program.
For more information see: http://www.nsf.gov/igert
Attachment: List of Year
2000 IGERT awards
Attachment
List of Year 2000 IGERT awards
Investigator |
Institution |
Amount |
NSF# |
James Anderson |
Pennsylvania State University |
$2.54M |
9987589 |
Stephen Davis |
Northwestern University |
$2.53M |
9987577 |
Stuart Fisher |
Arizona State University |
$2.69M |
9987612 |
Fred Fox |
University of California - Los Angeles |
$2.69M |
9987641 |
William Hase |
Wayne State University |
$2.58M |
9987598 |
Jiping He |
Arizona State University |
$2.70M |
9987619 |
Peter Liaw |
University Tennessee - Knoxville |
$2.70M |
9987548 |
Scott Midkiff |
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University |
$2.55M |
9987586 |
David Pine |
University of California - Santa Barbara |
$2.52M |
9987618 |
Robert Roemer |
University of Utah |
$2.70M |
9987616 |
Daniel Rokhsar |
University of California - Berkeley |
$2.70M |
9987623 |
Paul Russo |
Louisiana State University |
$2.70M |
9987603 |
Terry Sejnowski |
University of California - San Diego |
$2.70M |
9987614 |
Barbara Sherry |
North Carolina State University |
$2.44M |
9987555 |
Marie Thursby |
Purdue University |
$2.49M |
9987576 |
David Touretzky |
Carnegie-Mellon University |
$1.84M |
9987588 |
Viola Vogel |
University of Washington |
$2.70M |
9987620 |
James White |
University of Colorado - Boulder |
$2.66M |
9987607 |
Bernard Wood |
George Washington University |
$2.63M |
9987590 |
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