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IGERT Training 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.