Igert Funding And The Institutionalization Of Interdisciplinary Graduate Education

Abstract

Borrego holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University. Her current research interests center around interdisciplinary graduate education in engineering. She has an NSF CAREER and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award for this work.

Education and Evaluation for the NRT: Accounting for Numerous Requirements, Multiple Disciplines, and Small Cohorts

“…In NSF's portfolio of graduate training programs, that NRT Program took the place of the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT). For many years, the IGERT Program also focused on the graduate education and preparing students to be leaders in science and engineering disciplines (Newswander & Borrego, 2021). Like the NRT, it emphasized collaborative research that transcended traditional disciplinary boundaries and was founded on the belief that diversity among participants contributed to their ability to solve "large and complex problems of significant scientific and societal importance at the national and international level" (NSF http://www.igert.org/public/about.html).…”