Producing Tomorrow’s Thought Leaders Through Interdisciplinary Graduate Education

Recent scientific developments are rapidly outpacing the regulatory infrastructure currently in place to handle them. These new technologies demand a new kind of academician to properly contextualize not only their scientific implications, but also their social and ethical impacts. The NC State IGERT (Integrated Graduate Research Traineeship) Program and the Case of Transgenic Pests are uniquely geared toward offering graduate students the opportunity to be among the first of these newly integrated PhD professionals. Learn more!

Our Students in GES News

Student spotlight: Sophia Webster wins 1st place at Graduate Student Research Symposium

Kudos to Sophia Webster, a GES PhD candidate in Entomology and Plant Pathology, for winning first place at Graduate Student Research Symposium!
Sophia is part of the 2012 IGERT cohort whose focus is mosquitoes and human health. The first IGERT course took place in Lima and Iquitos, Peru where the cohort attended tropical medicine symposiums, visited health clinics and several farms to speak with farmers. The cohort also shadowed NAMRU workers door to door in in Iquitos as the workers completed their household mosquito checks and surveys. Additionally, the cohort conducted household experiments on the density dependent effects of mosquito larvae in household containers.

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Scientist to the Senators: Ph.D. Student Johanna Elsensohn

Written by Chelsea Kellner This article originally appeared on CALS News Ph.D. student Johanna Elsensohn understands the importance of intersecting science with policy: During the international Zika virus crisis, she worked with policymakers on one 

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NSF Traineeship Programs

Learn more about the National Science Foundation’s past IGERT Program and explore its exciting new graduate education initiative, the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program.