Fostering Disruptive Interdisciplinary Science

Fostering advances in interdisciplinary climate science.

Fostering science and science careers.

responses to environment/economy issues, increased financial support for science education, an internationally competitive workforce, and maintenance of an adequate healthcare applicant pool. The discipline of physiology, by its integrative nature, is in a unique position to partner with the precollege classroom teacher in bringing excitement and sustained interest in science to students at all...

FROM THE ACADEMY: COLLOQUIUM INTRODUCTION Fostering advances in interdisciplinary climate science

Jeffrey Shaman, Susan Solomon, Rita R. Colwell, and Christopher B. Field Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032; Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland Institute f...

Fostering transdisciplinary science.

The causes and prevention of cancer in humans are complex phenomena, and thereby require the application of scientific methods to address this inherent complexity. It is a common axiom that researchers from multiple disciplines may be required to address the complex etiology and prevention of human disease. There are, however, a number of ways that a group of researchers may bring their individ...

Interdisciplinary Meandering in Science

I was a graduate student in mathematics at Princeton immediately following World War II, 1945–1947. In those days, with veterans of the war inundating universities, there was no option but to earn a Ph.D. within two years. My thesis research was in functional analysis, an area of abstract mathematics. My mentor was Professor S. Bochner, a distinguished contributor to harmonic analysis. My class...