In an ever-changing, more complex and interconnected world, education must adapt to prepare students to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Interdisciplinary projects, which involve collaboration ...

Over the last two decades, the hortatory power of interdisciplinarity within and beyond the academy has grown substantially. This is particularly the case across the humanities and social sciences, ...

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 ...

Three interdisciplinary projects have received seed funding from the UC Santa Cruz Foundation following a campuswide call for proposals issued by the Office of Research. Each project will receive ...

The project team designed the $51.2-million, 139,000-sq-ft University of New Mexico Physics and Astronomy Interdisciplinary Science (PAIS) Building to unite several science disciplines. Sustainability ...

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

This year, Religious Studies Faculty were awarded several prestigious research fellowships and grants. The wide array of projects and accolades attest to the inherent interdisciplinary nature and ...

Humanities and sciences don’t often mix. But Poets for Science, a project that explores science through poetry, does just that — encouraging collaboration between the two fields. To celebrate both ...

Everyone in academe, especially administrators, seems to love it when faculty members engage in interdisciplinary projects. We praise it at every turn. But that said, interdisciplinary collaborations ...

Scientific analysis of funding support suggests that interdisciplinary research proposals are less successful than those focused on single disciplines. This has negative implications for the ...

An innovative, interdisciplinary project co-led by the University of Illinois Chicago will use artificial intelligence to unify data from a broader range of health professions and create novel, ...

The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago has selected 10 new faculty research projects to join the 32 interdisciplinary projects that are already under way. In ...