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IGERT Program featured in Boston Globe 7/26
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…There are, admittedly, efforts afoot to change this problem. The National Science Foundation’s decade-old IGERT program – Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship – strives to impart a far broader set of skills to young scientists, and is supporting some of the best courses in the nation to this end. For example, an IGERT-supported course entitled “Climate Change and Marine Ecosystems,” taught at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography by marine biologist Jeremy Jackson, introduces young scientists not only to the research on climate change, biodiversity, and conservation, but also to economic thinking, policy realities, the nature of the modern media, and even the work of filmmakers, improv comedians, and Internet organizers.
However, the IGERT program is a shadow of what it could be: At present, the program disburses about 20 grants per year, yet each funding cycle, the NSF reports receiving more than 400 preliminary IGERT proposals….
