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Picking Up on the Smell of Evolution
UA researchers have discovered some of the changes in genes, physiology and behavior that enable a species to drastically change its lifestyle in the course of evolution.
For most of us, switching to a vegetarian... More »
UA researchers have discovered some of the changes in genes, physiology and behavior that enable…
Herbivory is a key innovation in insects, yet has only evolved in one-third of living orders. The…
The landscaping plants chosen by residents for their yards plays a much greater role in the diversity…
Undergraduate Chemistry Education is the summary of a workshop convened in May 2013 by the Chemical…
The undergraduate years are a turning point in producing scientifically literate citizens and future…
In neural interface platforms, cultures are often carried out on a flat, open, rigid, and opaque…
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Tiny, thin microtubes could provide a scaffold for neuron cultures to grow so…
Cerebrovascular support is crucial for healthy cognitive and brain aging. Arterial stiffening is…
Researchers at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed…
University of Utah engineers have developed a new type of carbon nanotube material for handheld sensors…
Woodpeckers find emerald ash borers a handy food source and may slow the spread of this noxious pest,…
Inadvertently introduced into North America in the 1990s, the invasive emerald ash borer (EAB, Agrilus…
Superconducting electronics based on Josephson junctions are used to sense and process electronic…
Computer chips with superconducting circuits — circuits with zero electrical resistance — would…
Sports stadiums in Denver suffer from excess parking, creating unattractive concrete spaces, heat…
Mechanisms of aerial righting in juvenile chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar) were studied from hatching…
How did the earliest birds take wing? Did they fall from trees and learn to flap their forelimbs…
The continually increasing demands for higher-speed and lower-operating-power devices have resulted…
A new combination of materials can efficiently guide electricity and light along the same tiny wire,…
Working with a team of scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TU Munich), Brandeis University,…
Engineering synthetic materials that mimic the remarkable complexity of living organisms is a fundamental…
The relationship between inter- and transdisciplinary research and potentially transformative science…
Interdisciplinary collaboration is essential to understand ecological systems at scales critical…
Researchers working at the interface of disciplines can pursue insights without sacrificing career…
New Grad Program Dives into Emerging Fields of Big Data and Network Science $3 million NSF grant…
UVM professor and IGERT co-PI Paul Hines was interviewed by Dan Bobkoff on National Public Radio…
Portland State University’s Ecosystem Services for Urbanizing Regions program brings together Ph.D….
On April 14 and 15, a high-level delegation from Addis Ababa University (AAU) visited UMass Boston…
For every thought or behavior, the brain erupts in a riot of activity, as thousands of cells communicate…
Understanding the pressure response of the electrical properties of metals provides a fundamental…
Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences makes it possible to predict…
Integrated research across disciplines is required to address many of the pressing environmental…
NSF’s new Strategic Plan, Investing in Science, Engineering, and Education for the Nation’s Future:…
Kristy Jost’s research interweaves textile design and materials science to create garments capable…
Moving is thought to take separate preparation and execution steps. During preparation, neural activity…
Recording the neural activity of monkeys as they plan to reach, or just react, will help engineers…
The centerpiece project of NCPRE (National Center for Professional & Research Ethics) is Ethics…
America’s research universities have undergone striking change in recent decades, as have many…
The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program represents a substantial…
Enhancing Communication & Collaboration in Interdisciplinary Research, edited by Michael O’Rourke,…
Every year, millions of tons of wood waste produced by commercial timber harvests and forest restoration…
“Over the past 100 years the chemical sciences have contributed immensely to the security, health,…
A working group of the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD –charter and roster in Appendix…
Research Universities and the Future of America:
Ten Breakthrough Actions Vital to Our Nation’s…
Graduate education in the United States plays a critical role in the success of the U.S. workforce…
Scientists, engineers, and medical professionals play a vital role in building the 21st- century…
Using Science as Evidence in Public Policy encourages scientists to think differently about the use…
Effective for awards submitted or due on or after January 18, 2011 through January 13, 2013. For…
Effective for proposals submitted or due on or after January 18, 2011 through January 13, 2013. For…
Optics and photonics technologies are ubiquitous: they are responsible for the displays on smart…
The National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)…
The National Science Board (NSB) has released a report on the National Science Foundation’s merit…
This report summarizes a recent study of the IGERT program conducted by Abt Associates Inc. The study…
Effective February 1, 2012, new NSF grants and funding amendments to existing NSF grants begin referencing…
Executive Summary:
The United States faces a great imperative to improve undergraduate science and…
A recent report released by the National Science Foundation found that graduate enrollment in science…
Students at the University of Washington have teamed up on a startup that promises to turn slash…
“Science, engineering, and health (SEH) doctorates awarded by U.S. institutions to minorities (Asians,…
The 5th annual Energy & Sustainability Conference was hosted by the Solar Hydrogen IGERT and…
The Joint Ocean Commission Initiative announces Dr. Peter August as the recipient of the 2011 Marc…
The University of Nebraska—Lincoln is looking for doctoral students interested expanding their…
The Science, Technology & Society Initiative is developing conceptual frameworks and case studies,…
Increasing complexity and competitiveness in research environments, the prevalence of interdisciplinary…
The Ethics Education Library is a collection of resources for scholars and university administrators…
Northeastern graduate students Tatyana Chernenko, Yogesh Patel and Brian Plouffe discuss how the…
Professor Joel Tohline discusses LSU’s IGERT program on computational fluid dynamics, which is…
The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program at the University of…
The scientific research enterprise is built on a foundation of trust. Scientists trust that the results…
In the face of so many daunting near-term challenges, U.S. government and industry are letting the…
“With this survey, Bayer’s goal is to add a critical voice to the national diversity/underrepresentation…
“In an era when women are increasingly prominent in medicine, law and business, why are there so…
“Science and Engineering Indicators, published by the National Science Board, provides a broad…
Article excerpt:
About three years ago, Emily Beal — a graduate student in geosciences at Penn State…
As digital technologies are expanding the power and reach of research, they are also raising complex…
BioMedSearch is an enhanced version of the NIH PubMed search that combines MedLine/PubMed data with…
Society stands at a crossroads. With growing problems such as resource depletion, energy sustainability,…
I had come to the institute’s Bioengineering Division as an East Asian Pacific Summer Institute…
This fall, I begin my fourth year as a doctoral student in biophysics at Brandeis University. My…
From Canada to Chile, from Kazakhstan to Kansas, we are witnessing a fast-changing planet. What will…
This surprisingly slim edited book covers one of higher education’s current buzz-terms, interdisciplinarity,…
“Climate change is already having visible impacts in the United States, and the choices we make…
New data show that enrollment in U.S. science and engineering (S&E) graduate programs in 2007…
This 28-page booklet is based on Ecological Impacts of Climate Change (2009), a report by an independent…
Constituting one-third of all U.S. institutions of higher education, emerging research institutions…
On April 23, 2009, CGS released “Broadening Participation in Graduate Education” at a legislative…
The Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID) was a five year action
and research project that worked…
The National Academies perform an unparalleled public service by
bringing together committees of experts…
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news,
information, and jobs for college and…
The Council of Graduate Schools’ (CGS) mission is to improve and advance
graduate education in order…
Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research examines current
interdisciplinary research efforts and recommends…
“The approach to graduate study in the chemical sciences has changed
very little in the last 40…
Are we producing too many PhDs? Does the current graduate education system adequately prepare science…
A widely held belief is that only through interdisciplinarity can academics effectively address today’s…
In a world where advanced knowledge is widespread and low-cost labor is
readily available, U.S. advantages…
The report discusses incorporating more math, physics, chemistry,
engineering and computer science…
Synopsis of Program: The goal of this report is to provide to the
stakeholders and community of the…
The National Science Foundation (NSF), created over 50 years ago, is the
premier Federal agency supporting…
“This report summarizes findings from an evaluation of the impacts of
the National Science Foundation’s…
This overview of the Responsive Ph.D. initiative’s five years of work
with 20 major U.S. research…
“We recently completed an unparalleled survey, with more than eight
thousand doctoral student respondents…
The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)
program has been developed to…
In October 2005 the National Academies released a report that New York
Times columnist Thomas L. Freidman…
“UC San Diego graduate student Damien Cie, pursuing a joint degree at
Scripps Institution of Oceanography…
This is a great video discussing making kites to harness the power of high-altitude winds.
Salmonids are threatened with extinction in the Pacific Northwest in part due to loss of habitat…
IGERT trainees Tawny Mata, Alpa Wintzer, Elizabeth Bella, and Elizabeth Wells worked with a local…
Robin Garrell describes how IGERT has catalyzed institutional change at UCLA.
One minute documentary on economists working with other scientists to promote conservation and biodiversity….
A soil scientist describes her research with cacao plants and working with local farmers.
A graduate student describes her research in banana farms, specifically with respect to banana weevils…
Students and faculty of the NSF-funded Coastal Institute IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education Research…
IGERT Trainee Sheila Walsh conducted a household survey on nine islands in the Republic of Kiribati….
Release of mercury historically deposited in wetlands of the Adirondack region, NY, USA.
Chronic…
IGERT Fellow, Loren McClenachan
Loren McClenachan and Andrew Cooper published a paper in the Proceedings…
Cadre 1 students, Lisa Kemp and Nick Hammond, leveraged their research findings to form Ablitech,…
IGERT trainie Jill Stukel is working with Dr. Michael Caplan and an interdisciplinary team to explore…
The work devoted to Inkless Microcontact Printing received considerable popular press because the…
IGERT fellow Matt Keuss has forged a new bridge between Professor Wirtz in Chemical and Biomolecular…
IGERT Fellow Jacob Koskimaki is working with Drs. Karagiannis and Popel using nano-bio tools to study…
Automated sensor networks are revolutionizing data collection in ecology and environmental science,…
UCD IGERT research and preceding GAANN research have focussed on one increasingly important aspect…
The major goal of University of California Riverside’s Center for Plant Cell Biology Chemical Genomics…
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship…
An interdisciplinary research team at the Arizona State University has developed an interactive mediated…
Over the past two years, the K-12 Embodied and Mediated Learning group has developed an experiential…
Our Sustainability IGERT has worked to develop a graduate engineering curriculum that can teach scientists…
R.J. Briggs, a doctoral candidate in Economics, is funded through the National Science Foundation’s…
Tess Stafford, a doctoral candidate funded through the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Integrative…
Diana Hun, a doctoral candidate funded through the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Integrative…
Jessica Cobarrubia and Scot Waye, doctoral candidates in Toxicology and Mechanical Engineering, respectively,…
Students funded through the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education…
Description of IGERT Fellow Francesca Terenzi’s Research that is the Highlight:
Human fossil fuel…
Michael Waring, a doctoral candidate in Environmental Engineering, is funded through the National…
Among the many individual accomplishments resulting from IGERT training has been the development…
IGERT Fellow Jessica Zimberlin and Professor Alfred Crosby (Dept. of Polymer Science & Engineering)…
DiagNano is an early stage technology company focused on nanotechnology and cancer diagnostics. The…
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship…
One of the most significant interdisciplinary research achievement flowing from the IGERT has been…
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship…
Chemi-informatic infrastructure development. A fundamental challenge to high throughput research…
Watersheds are most effectively studied using an interdisciplinary approach because of their complexity…
The formation of ultrafine metal films and clusters by electrochemical deposition is a critical step…
NSF-funded researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) are organizing the first International…
Lucas with Paul Constantino (IGERT doctoral graduate) and colleagues at GWU, NIST, UCSC and Duke…
With NSF-IGERT funding, graduate students at the University of Idaho have made important contributions…
Production and Stabilization of Organic Crystalline Drug Nanoparticles using High Pressure Homogenization…
Daniel Lepek, Trainee, with inter-university advisors R. Pfeffer, R. Dave, P. Armenante and B. Glasser,…
Northeastern University has established an Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship…
The IGERT Nanomedicine Trainee’s have collaborated and developed an “Introduction to the Nanoworld”…
Troy Benn presented a paper entitled, Fate and transport of ionic and nanoparticle silver released…
NSF-funded researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found that land divisions with…
IGERT Associate, Richard Lankau, and IGERT PI Strauss explored selection from specialist and generalist…
Long-distance pollen flow assessment through evaluation of pollinator foraging range suggests transgene…
In recent years, Terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) systems have shown great potential…
The NSF-funded IGERT Trainee, Michael Benson, from UT, has investigated the strain-induced face-centered…
Trainees in the IGERT program “Montana Ecology of Infectious Diseases” are being prepared for…
With NSF-IGERT funding, graduate students at the University of Idaho have made important contributions…
Our IGERT program has integrated several sources of theory relating to social-ecological sustainability…
NSF funded researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute developed a THz imaging technique employing…
Work accomplished by IGERT trainee Sean Carroll, along with IGERT faculty Joe Thornton and post-doctoral…
IGERT trainees carry out cutting-edge research in the burgeoning field of nanomedicine. The research…
Christopher Rasmussen – Trainee; Alexander V. Neimark – IGERT Adviser (Rutgers University); Aleksey…
Contribution to the Luquillo Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) socio-ecological research program….
IGERT PIs Postlethwait and Cresko taught two-day session at the Water Wonders Summer Camp at the…
Each year graduate students who are part of an NSF-supported Integrative Graduate Education and Research…
In the scientific community, it is now widely agreed upon that the world will need to develop by…
IssueBrowser is an interactive visualization system that aims to enhance the knowledge acquisition…
Nature has the ability to construct exquisite organic-inorganic composite materials with structures…
Membrane bilayers composed of amphiphilic phospholipids and proteins are soft materials of great…
NSF-funded researchers at Columbia University have developed novel biopolymer gel tracer particles…
Our highlight from last year’s IGERT survey discussed our successful effort to create a new permanent…
An interdisciplinary research group, Systems and Decision Making, was set up, with 5 professors,…
Proteomics data is proving to be an invaluable resource for biological research. Collaborations between…
Two Drexel University IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) fellows have…
Jay Hodgson’s IGERT dissertation research has extended the two-region comparative model developed…
Graduate student Daryl Ludlow and Professor Michael Jensen at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have…
In June of 2007, GLOBES/IGERT trainee Andy Deines successfully completed a Real World Practicum experience…
Microscale systems implement biochemical and chemical process operations – separations, synthesis,…
Fluorescently labeled polymer microbeads (10-100 microns in diameter) are promising platforms for…
The barriers to disseminating research to others and learning from others’ research in an interdisciplinary…
Palladium-based catalysts were investigated for hydrogenation of poly(styrene) (PS) to poly(vinylcyclohexane),…
As electronics rapidly moves towards nanoscale devices there has been greater and greater interest…
Ben Stephens has developed robust control of standing balance for a humanoid robot based on current…
Igert trainee Marcelo Cataldo, with advisors Herbsleb and Carley, developed, implemented and tested…
CMU Igert trainees in CASOS trained west point cadets in dynamic network analysis and helped foster…
Our third cohort of IGERT trainees partnered with Backyard Farms (BYF) of Madison, Maine this year…
Using environmentally friendly supercritical carbon dioxide and a new calixarene-based molecular…
Tracey Wellington is a graduate student at Texas A&M University, and a Trainee in the interdisciplinary…
In the last year Texas A&M faculty members Ibrahim Karaman (Mechanical Engineering) and Dimitris…
Our NSF funded Program in Integrative Information, Computer and Application Sciences (PICASso) has…
Our education and training program on Risk Analysis for Introduced Species and Genotypes links research…
Our symposium entitled, Predicting the Invasive Potential of Exotic Species, was the key highlight…
The Center for Entrepreneurship at OSU’s Fisher College of Business at Ohio State is led by Dr….
NSF-funded researchers at the University of California have significantly improved the recognition…
The Center for Entrepreneurship at OSU’s Fisher College of Business at Ohio State is led by Dr….
NSF funded researchers Paul Hammon, Virginia de Sa, Howard Poizner, Scott Makeig, and Emo Todorov…
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A nanofluidic “cell patch” device, which integrates layers of polymeric nanochannels into a…
: IGERT trainee Orin Hemminger’s recent research activity has centered on using DNA as a model…
The implications of climate change in the Great Lakes Region were discussed by several speakers during…
Nicholas Butko, Lingyun Zhang, Garrison Cottrell and Javier Movellan at the University of California…
The uncertainties surrounding the measurement and spatial averaging of global surface temperatures…
This June, Lauren Urgenson, Cohort III trainee, traveled with an interdisciplinary team of faculty…
In a NSF-funded traineeship program, graduate student Darren Southworth working in collaboration…
One monomer molecularly imprinted polymers (OMNiMIPs) have enhanced binding and selectivity properties…
The increased use of antibiotics has led to a dramatic rise in the number of antibiotic-resistant…
Due to their high degree of monodispersity, their highly symmetrical geometries, and the ease with…
Infrared (IR) photodetectors are useful for a variety of military and civil applications, such as…
In NSF-funded research, Cornell scientists have developed atomically thin membranes that may enable…
Carnegie Mellon graduate student Ryan Kelly, and his advisor, Professor Tai Sing Lee, have discovered…
This research was performed by Ben Spivey, an IGERT trainee, who is being advised by John Ekerdt…
IGERT trainee Alan May supervised by Prof. Keith Stevenson has published in Journal of Physical Chemistry…
Enabling computers to depict and understand visual “shape” is a central problem in computer vision,…
Using quasi-experimental evaluation methods commonly employed in economics and political science…
UNC’s IGERT program in population and environment has contributed to the creation of a new institutional…
Shermin de Silva, IGERT trainee and biology graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, has…
NSF IGERT-funded researchers at Northwestern University are developing an innovative particle-based…
We have developed a method for machining micro-surface texture onto a bearing surface in addition…
Overexpression of the ErbB family of receptors often leads to an activation of intracellular signaling…
Nick Carroll, a Trainee supported by the NSF IGERT program on Integrating Nanotechnology with Cell…
Researchers at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) are probing…
