Funding-Limited Submission - NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT); March 30, 2012

The Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program has been developed to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with interdisciplinary backgrounds, deep knowledge in chosen disciplines, and technical, professional, and personal skills. The program is intended to establish 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 a world-class, broadly inclusive, and globally engaged science and engineering workforce.

Building upon the IGERT platform, the purpose of this IGERT solicitation is to support new models in graduate education in which students are engaged in an environment that supports innovation to learn through hands-on experience how their own research may contribute in new ways to benefit society and to learn the processes for the successful implementation of such contributions.

Solicitation: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11533/nsf11533.htm

Because NSF limits an institution to only 1 proposal, UK has established an internal selection process.  Applicants are to submit the following information electronically to Kris Hobson (hobson@email.uky.edu), Office of the Provost, and a copy to their dean by Friday, March 30, 2012:

· Title of Project

· Names and departments of the PI and participating personnel

· Project description to include goals, interdisciplinary themes, recruitment strategies and organizational structure (2 pages, max.)

A committee will be convened to review the proposals and make a recommendation. The Office of the Provost will notify all applicants of the outcome.
 
NSF Deadlines: May 1, 2012 letter of intent (required); July 2, 2012 full proposal