NSF IGERT Program Announcement Now Available
The Integrative Graduate Research and Education Traineeship (IGERT)
program solicitation is now available at:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ods_key=nsf05517
The next deadline for pre-proposals is February 4, 2005. Full proposals
are by invitation only with a deadline of August 25, 2005.
The National Science Foundation continues the Integrative Graduate
Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program into its eighth
annual competition. Proposals for new IGERT projects as well as
proposals based on existing IGERT projects are invited. There are two
program officers in the Division of Graduate Education who are primarily
responsible for the IGERT program:
Carol Van Hartesveldt
Phone: 703-292-8696
E-mail: cvanhart [at] nsf.gov
Debasish (Deba) Dutta
703-292-5304
E-mail: ddutta [at] nsf.gov
The IGERT program has been developed to meet the challenges of educating
U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers who will pursue careers in research
and education, with the interdisciplinary backgrounds, deep knowledge in
chosen disciplines, and technical, professional, and personal skills to
become, in their own careers, leaders and creative agents for change.
The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate
education, for students, faculty, and institutions, by establishing
innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile
environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional
disciplinary boundaries. It is also intended to facilitate diversity in
student participation and preparation, and to contribute to the
development of a diverse, globally-engaged, science and engineering
workforce.
IGERT is an NSF-wide endeavor involving the Directorates for Biological
Sciences (BIO), Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE),
Education and Human Resources (EHR), Engineering (ENG), Geosciences
(GEO), Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), Social, Behavioral, and
Economic Sciences (SBE), the Office of Polar Programs (OPP), and the
Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE). The IGERT
program is managed by the Division of Graduate Education in EHR.
Proposals submitted to the IGERT program must be integrative,
research-based, graduate education and training activities in emerging
areas of science and engineering. The IGERT project should be organized
around an interdisciplinary theme involving a diverse group of faculty
members and other investigators with appropriate expertise in research
and teaching. The interdisciplinary theme provides a framework for
integrating research and education and for promoting collaborative
efforts within and across departments and institutions.
Please see the full text of the announcement for complete information at:
http://www.nsf.gov/pubsys/ods/getpub.cfm?ods_key=nsf05517
Renee Crain (rcrain [at] nsf.gov) and Vladimir Papitashvili (vpapita [at] nsf.gov)
are contacts for the IGERT program in the Office of Polar Programs. You
may contact them for information about polar IGERT proposals via email
or by calling 703-292-8030.