“It seems like we’ve done 10 years of work in seven months!” she told participants. Presentations by eight leading UAB researchers buoyed that sentiment. Among the work: Kevin Harrod, Ph.D., described ...

A new Schiller Institute study shows researchers who have been awarded funding for interdisciplinary projects identify stronger with core values of collaboration, curiosity, and intellectual humility ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) The most exciting landmark scientific achievements don’t happen ...

Over the past year I have had the honor of serving as the President of the Public Choice Society, and on Sunday I returned from the annual conference. Public choice is the use of economic theory to ...

Creative research and teaching increasingly occur at the junction between traditional disciplines. As a result, many colleges and universities have committed themselves to fostering interdisciplinary ...

Jisha Menon, the Robert G. Freeman Professor of International Studies at Stanford, will end her term as faculty director of the Stanford Global Studies (SGS) division at the end of the academic year.

Students across the country came together last weekend to explore the question ‘what do we want our future to look like?’ during the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) Emerging ...

With two major academic leadership positions to fill, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra said she wants to focus on facilitating interdisciplinary research and scholarship ...

Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin and former Radcliffe fellows lauded the Institute and its interdisciplinary research projects on Friday, the second day of an event commemorating the ...

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 ...