In recent years, interdisciplinarity has become one of the central themes in higher education and research policy. Funding ...

Understanding and solving environmental challenges increasingly requires a combination of expertise from across multiple disciplines. This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program ...

In the world of research, collaboration across disciplines is not a novel idea for achieving scientific discovery. It is the norm. Research projects are very complex, so scientific teams must be ...

During my fifth year of teaching, my principal asked me to move from the 8th grade to the 6th grade. I suddenly became more aware of the range of students within a middle school: Some students still ...

UAB offers two master’s degrees in Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies (IGS): The Master of Arts and the Master of Science. Both degrees invite students to integrate two areas of expertise. IGS ...

Imagine drone footage from about 300 feet above West Campus. Looking down, you see the medical and nursing schools, Duke Engineering, Nicholas School of the Environment, Divinity School, natural ...

Everyone has looked through a microscope. It is a brilliant tool for getting the basic work of science done, and its image alone is sufficient to communicate concentration, precision and discovery. It ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Jacob Kupietzky In ...

Recently we’ve heard a lot of talk about interdisciplinarity, along with claims that traditional academic departments are limiting the ability of the modern university to meet the world’s most ...

Advance Care Planning in Patients With Metastatic Cancer: A Quality Improvement Initiative We assembled an interdisciplinary team inclusive of a family partner and used the Model for Improvement as ...