*Head, Census information Center and biostatistician, institute of interdisciplinary Research, †Affiliate Researcher, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research and Professor, Department of Chemistry, university of Puerto Rico at Cayey; ‡tRAmil Scientific Coordinator, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of French Antilles and Guyana, UAG UFR SEN BP 592, 97159 Pointe à Pitre, Guad...

Lydia Steiner Bioinformatics Group, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig ∗ Peter F. Stadler Bioinformatics Group, University of Leipzig, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig; Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Science; Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology; Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, Uni...

This paper describes the French initiative in materials research against both a national and an international background, in an attempt to disentangle the local circumstances, which prompted this governmental initiative, and to characterize the specific profile of materials research in France. In presenting a biography of the interdisciplinary program in materials research (PIRMAT), we argue th...

1 Interdisciplinary Robotics Research Laboratory, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA, 2 Department of Cognitive Science, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA, 3 Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, 4 Department of Computer Science, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA, 5 Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA, 6 Department...

Rather than pursue questions related to learning in biology from separate camps, recent calls highlight the necessity of interdisciplinary research agendas. Interdisciplinary collaborations allow for a complicated and expanded approach to questions about learning within specific science domains, such as biology. Despite its benefits, interdisciplinary work inevitably involves challenges. Some s...

This paper describes the French initiative in materials research against both a national and an international background, in an attempt to disentangle the local circumstances, which prompted this governmental initiative, and to characterize the specific profile of materials research in France. In presenting a biography of the interdisciplinary program in materials research (PIRMAT), we argue th...

This paper describes in brief Cornell’s interdisciplinary eRulemaking project that was recently funded (December, 2005) by the National Science Foundation.

For at least a decade, U.S. funding agencies and university campuses have promoted the expansion of interdisciplinary research. At the same time, federal and local programs have sought to increase the participation of women and minorities in science, mathematics, and engineering. Research has focused on each of these trends independently, but very few studies have considered their interaction b...

This paper describes a decision analysis methodology to evaluate academic programs. It avoids the shortcomings of the well-known evaluations of universities and academic programs produced by the public media. In addition to evaluating traditional departments and schools, the methodology is designed to evaluate interdisciplinary programs or fields that typically span many areas of a university, ...

Capstone courses in many disciplines often fall into a single paradigm: they allow students to practice the skills they should have gathered through their progress in the department curriculum in a real-world or near-real venue. However, these courses often fail the real-world test by one important factor: they are not interdisciplinary projects, which is not indicative of industry experiences....