Integrated Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) Grants
Integrated
Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) Fellowships in Biomolecular
Nanotechnology
The Biomolecular Nanotechnology Program is designed to give students in (Bio)Chemistry,
Engineering, Biology, or Biophysics a broad education that crosses traditional
boundaries between these disciplines. The research program focuses on the study
of biomolecular mechanisms and on their applications to molecular-scale device
design. The goal is to prepare students for the increasingly multidisciplinary
nature of scientific research, and to provide the skills necessary to develop
novel future technologies.
Integrated Graduate Education
and Research Training (IGERT) Fellowships in Neural and Musculoskeletal Adaptations
in Form and Function
The goal of this IGERT program is to introduce Ph.D. students with diverse biological
and engineering backgrounds to the challenges of deciphering complex phenomena
in neuroscience, biomechanics, rehabilitation, and musculoskeletal morphology,
and to foster interdisciplinary education and training in research efforts toward
meeting these challenges. Graduate training will expand upon two related areas
in which participating faculty have developed research and teaching collaborations:
mechanisms underlying neural control of movements, emphasizing hand function
and locomotion; and evolutionary morphology of the human hand and bipedality.
IGERT fellows will work with a team of faculty members from ASU, Barrow Neurological
Institute and Institute of Human Origins on research projects in newly developed
multidisciplinary areas. They will have access to state-of-art facilities for
their research and education needs and opportunities to interact with leading
scientists.
Integrated Graduate Education
and Research Training (IGERT) Fellowships in Urban Ecology
The main objective of this National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored program
is to educate a new kind of research scientist who is broader, more flexible,
more collaborative, and more adept at linking issues in the life, earth, and
social sciences than heretofore. Fellows earn Ph.D.s in one of six core departments:
biology, plant biology, geography, geology, anthropology, or sociology. Fellows
participate in team research, courses, and seminars that emphasize integration
among disciplines. These activities will afford skills that should be broadly
applicable to careers in public and private sectors and in academia.