Lately, I have been thinking about how important collaboration and interdisciplinary science is. I have had two incredible experiences that would have been impossible without going a bit outside of my ...

Many of today's hottest research areas are at the interface of traditional scientific disciplines. Unfortunately, scientists pursuing such interdisciplinary research in academic settings don't always ...

A struggle with a definition. Live jazz music crashes through the dark bar as my friend and I discuss what it means to be 'interdisciplinary'. My beer-loosened words are barely audible over the music.

Interdisciplinarity has an ambitious goal: tackling real-world, complex problems. This is why higher education institutions are incorporating it into their strategic thinking, and why more students ...