Graduate Education for a New Sustainable Urban Systems Science: Designing a New PhD Curriculum Integrating Sustainability Science and Urban Science

Developing a science of infrastructure ecology for sustainable urban systems.

Systems Ming Xu,*,†,‡ Marc Weissburg, Joshua P. Newell,† and John C. Crittenden †School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States ‡Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States Center for Biolog...

Catalyzing Curriculum Evolution in Graduate Science Education

Strategies in life science graduate education must evolve in order to train a modern workforce capable of integrative solutions to challenging problems. Our institution has catalyzed such evolution through building a postdoctoral Curriculum Fellows Program that provides a collaborative and scholarly education laboratory for innovation in graduate training.

Sustainable health: a new dimension of sustainability science.

T he traditional view of health in the context of economic development was that if a country gets its macroeconomics right, health improvement will follow. Empirical evidence that some countries with low per capita gross domestic product have life expectancies comparable with those in the richest countries and others with significant gross domestic product per capita but poor health outcomes ha...

Graduate Biomedical Science Education Needs a New Philosophy

There is a growing realization that graduate education in the biomedical sciences is successful at teaching students how to conduct research but falls short in preparing them for a diverse job market, communicating with the public, and remaining versatile scientists throughout their careers. Major problems with graduate level education today include overspecialization in a narrow area of scienc...

The New Science of Sustainable Food Systems