“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 ...

The most exciting landmark scientific achievements don't happen without researchers sharing and collaborating with others outside their field. When people first landed on the moon in 1969, Neil ...

A recent study, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and appearing in the Journal of Higher Education, reveals how undergraduate students engage with interdisciplinary learning throughout ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In all behavioural sciences, we observe huge interindividual variability in social behaviour. Individual humans and animals (from apes to social insects) differ in how they interact with other ...

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 ...

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 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 ...