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<\/center>\nFocus areas for awards include the intersection of food, water and energy.
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October 19, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n The National Science Foundation (NSF) is pleased to announce the most recent awardees for the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program, designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative models for graduate education in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).<\/p>\n \u201cInnovative and interdisciplinary approaches will be key to tackling tomorrow\u2019s scientific challenges, and today\u2019s STEM graduate students will need to develop the skills to meet those challenges,\u201d said Joan Ferrini-Mundy, NSF assistant director for Education and Human Resources. \u201cThe NSF Research Traineeship program is testing new models to train graduate students across STEM disciplines and to prepare them for contributions in diverse careers.\u201d<\/p>\n The NRT program addresses key issues in the scientific community, including educating and building the science and engineering workforce, broadening participation in STEM education to include traditionally underserved populations, and creating new resources at institutions that train STEM graduate students.<\/p>\n NRT is an NSF-wide effort to build new models for graduate education, while preparing the next generation of STEM graduate students to pursue a range of careers. NSF awarded a total of $47 million to 16 Traineeship projects in high-priority, interdisciplinary research areas, including eight projects in Data-Enabled Science and Engineering (DESE), three in Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems research (INFEWS), and two in Understanding the Brain (UtB).<\/p>\n The principal investigators, institutions and titles for the new NRT awards are:<\/p>\n A total of $3.8 million was awarded to eight Innovations in Graduate Education projects that will pilot new approaches to graduate education. The principal investigators, institutions and titles for the new awards are:<\/p>\n NSF has released the next NRT solicitation (NSF 16-503<\/a>). Priority research areas in the solicitation are UtB (Understanding the Brain) and INFEWS (Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems). More information is available at the NRT program website<\/a>.<\/p>\n -NSF-<\/p>\n Media Contacts The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. In fiscal year (FY) 2016, its budget is $7.5 billion. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to nearly 2,000 colleges, universities and other institutions. Each year, NSF receives more than 48,000 competitive proposals for funding and makes about 12,000 new funding awards. NSF also awards about $626 million in professional and service contracts yearly.<\/em><\/p>\n Useful NSF Web Sites:<\/strong> NSF Research Traineeship awards address key issues in the scientific community Focus areas for awards include the intersection of food, water and energy. Credit and Larger Version October 19, 2016 The National Science Foundation (NSF) is pleased to announce the most recent awardees for the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program, designed to encourage the development […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13833,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7853,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/7853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neurophotonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n<\/strong>Rob Margetta, NSF, (703) 292-2663, rmargett@nsf.gov<\/a><\/p>\n
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