PLAN, Manage Your Professional Development as a Graduate Student
Posted Friday, October 02nd, 2009
In July, the National Science Foundation announced that the University of Michigan has been awarded a five-year grant by the NSF’s highly competitive Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT). This IGERT award will support a new interdisciplinary doctoral research training program, “Open Data: Graduate Training for Data Sharing and Reuse in E-Science.” Margaret Hedstrom, Associate Professor in the School of Information and Faculty Associate in the Institute for Social Research, is the director. IGERT is the NSF’s flagship program for graduate education, intended “to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education, for students, faculty, and institutions, by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries.” Doctoral students in engineering, bioinformatics, computer science, and information science who receive IGERT traineeships will research and design tools and systems for creating and preserving massive repositories of data for science and engineering, and for managing data-intensive networked research. Solving problems associated with data-sharing, archiving and reuse will enable scientists and engineers to explore new ways of organizing research and of engaging highly complex areas of investigation that were unthinkable a decade ago. This IGERT is supported by the Rackham Graduate School, the School of Information, and the College of Engineering.