Compact News: New Program Addresses Need to Integrate Geoscience Across Academic Disciplines

Friday, August 12, 2011

New Program Addresses Need to Integrate Geoscience Across Academic Disciplines

New Program Addresses Need to Integrate Geoscience Across Academic Disciplines
Fri, 12 Aug 2011 05:53:00 -0500

Image of Cathy Manduca, director of the Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced a $10 million grant for a new center to improve geoscience education and integrate the geosciences across other academic disciplines.

With the support from the five-year grant, "Interdisciplinary Teaching of Geoscience for a Sustainable Future," or InTeGrate, will develop teaching materials and model programs for use in undergraduate education.

InTeGrate activities specifically target the large majority of ...

More at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=121362&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click

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