The Program	The EIGER Concept
Core Courses	Faculty
Financial Support	EIGER Trainees
Research Internships	Staff
Advisory Board	NSF IGERT

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 Director, John Little, has been elected to the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) Academy of Fellows.

Former EIGER Fellow, Lee Bryant, has been awarded a 2-year NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship (worth $160,000) to continue her research on the biogeochemical cycling of manganese and its effect on drinking water. She also won first place in the Paul E. Torgersen Graduate Student Research Excellence PhD Poster Competition in April, 2009.

The White House has awarded core faculty member Maura Borrego the prestigious National Science Foundation Presidential Award

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NEWS AND EVENTS

EIGER Fellow, TIFFANY ADAMS, has been awarded first place in the United States Society on Dams (USSD) 2010 Scholarship competition for her research on "The Stability of Levees with Deep Mixed Shear Walls."

The interdisciplinary nature of Tiffany's work, which concerns mitigating the consequences of levee failure through evacuation of the vulnerable population of aging gamilies, was cited as helping to distinguish her from the other finalists. Pictured is Tiffany at the award ceremony held at the USSD Annual Meeting and Conference in Sacramento (April 12-16).

Recent International Internships:

LAURA KOSOGLU was at Bogazici University, Turkey from May-July, 2009
MATT HULL was at Centre Européen de Recherche et d’Enseignement des Géosciences de l’Environnement (CEREGE) in Aix-en-Provence, France from Sept-Oct 2009
TIFFANY ADAMS spent several weeks in Nanjing, China in 2008 and Okinawa and Tokyo, Japan in 2009
KELLY PLATHE spent fall 2008 at the University of Vienna in Austria, and Goteborg University in Sweden
ELIZABETH DIESEL spent the summer of 2008 at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland
KEVIN CROSBY was at the Swammerdam Institute in Amsterdam for four months in spring/summer 2008; he is now a postdoctoral fellow in his sponsor's laboratory.
LEE BRYANT was at EAWAG in Switzerland in 2007-2008

Visit our STUDENT PAGES to learn more about EIGER trainees, past and present, and how they spent their EIGER Internships.

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