Welcome to The EIGER Project at Virginia Tech!

The EIGER Program at Virginia Tech, supported by NSF IGERT funding through 2010, focuses on graduate research in the areas of 1) interdisciplinary environmental interface science, as studied by physical scientists and engineers, and 2) human interfaces within interdisciplinary scientific and engineering teams, as studied by behavioral scientists.  Ten departments in four colleges are involved in this project which will support 27 Ph.D. students over its lifetime.

EIGER People in the News

EIGER Participating Faculty Member, Patricia Dove, named a 2008 Fellow in the American Geophysical Union

EIGER core faculty member, Beate Schmittmann, honored with a 2007 Advancing Women Award from the Women's Center.

EIGER Participating Faculty Member, Andrea Dietrich's, research featured in C&E News.

EIGER Participating Faculty Member, Dennis Dean, named Stroobants Professor of Agricultural Biotechnology.

EIGER Co-PI, George Filz, named Via Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

EIGER PI, Mike Hochella, appointed as one of two new University Distinguished Professors.

EIGER Co-PI, George Filz, wins 2007 Wine Award for Excellence in Teaching

EIGER trainee, Callie Raulfs, receives 2007 Graduate Student Service Excellence Award

EIGER core faculty member, Beate Schmittmann, becomes the first female department head in the College of Science

News and Events

EIGER Co-PI John Little has taken the lead as the 2008 EIGER director.

Mark your calendars! The next EIGER Board Meeting has been scheduled for October 26-28, 2008 at The Inn and Skelton Conference Center.

Trainee Internships In Progess:

• Lee Bryant has been at EAWAG in Switzerland since last July and is due to return next month.
• Kevin Crosby has just arrived in the laboratory of Dorus Gadella at the Swammerdam Institute in Amsterdam, where he will be working through most of the summer.

Visit our new Student Pages to learn more about EIGER trainees, past and present.

Past Events
Picnic at the Turgrass Research Center helps kick off the fall semester - special thanks to Ellen Mathena and Rob Knee for making it a big success!

Contact Us Page last updated 5/1/08