Showcase
The Showcase Highlights, Stories, and short Achievements provide a window to the innovative work being conducted by IGERT programs. Members may feature new project work by posting here in the Showcase.
Highlights
See All »Highlights provide insight into the accomplishments of the IGERT programs in terms of reaching strategic goals in the areas of learning, discovery, and research infrastructure.
Featured Highlight
Microbial Research Advances Bioterrorism Preparedness
IGERT: Integrative Training in Ecology, Conservation and Pathogen Biology, University of Hawaii
The Bioterrorism Preparedness Act of 2001 placed utmost importance in the availability and development of countermeasures, such as vaccines, to those microorganisms classified as select-agents. We engineered strains with the aim of further development into vaccine candidates... More »
IGERT Stories
See All »Programs tell their stories through video narratives, field notes, news clippings, informal reports, and blogs. We invite all members to post.
Featured Story
Solar-Charged Phones Without A 93-Million-Mile Cord
IGERT: Clean Energy for Green Industry at UCLA, University of California at Los Angeles
Researchers have found a way for LCD screens to charge using solar power, indoor light and the devices' own backlight. Listen to this NPR podcast or read the transcript...More »
Achievements
See All »Achievements offer a glance at the research, education and trainee achievements of the IGERT programs.
Featured Achievement
Examining skin as a biomembrane
IGERT: An Interdisciplinary Initiative on Technology Based Learning with Disability, University of Cincinnati
Terri LaCount is measuring molar conductance of excised human skin immersed in various electrolyte solutions and Kyle Rich is working with Terri’s advisor, Dr. Kasting, to monitor skin conductivity to assess ultrasound-mediated perturbation of the dermal barrier... More »
