SELECTION
Trainee Requirements
United States citizenship or permanent residency, good academic standing, graduate student status, and an interest in cross-disciplinary training.
Consideration
Trainees are considered for application after they have been accepted to a specific graduate program and selected an advisor, normally done by the individual graduate programs. Candidates, most of them completing the first year of their Ph.D. programs, are nominated by their training grant faculty advisors for a position on the training grant during the spring semester. The candidate's ability to expand his or her intellectual horizon to new dimensions and to synthesize new knowledge from different disciplines will be used as a major factor for the selection process. In keeping with the philosophy of cross-disciplinary knowledge expansion, the committee strives to create a balance of students from different disciplines in the training prgram. In addition, priority of selection will be given to students who have chosen to pursue a Ph.D. degree in a discipline area other than the one in which they obtained their undergraduate or master's degree.
Prospective students
Students who are interested in the training program and who have not yet applied for a graduate program at the university may consult with the steering committee, administrative director, and program director regarding which graduate programs would be appropriate choices for their admission to the University of Minnesota. First year graduate students in participating departments may contact training faculty in their departments.
