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... It drew conclusions and made recommendations based on the committee's deliberations and on suggestions it received from undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, researchers, academic and nonacademic institutional leaders, funding organizations, and professional societies at its convocation and via its survey; the focus groups held at the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference; and interviews with leading scholars.
From page 2...
... 4. Successful interdisciplinary researchers have found ways to integrate and synthesize disciplinary depth with breadth of interests, visions, and skills.
From page 3...
... 11. Professional societies have the opportunity to facilitate IDR by producing state-of-the-art reports on recent research developments and on curriculum, assessment, and accreditation methods; enhancing personal interactions; building partnerships among societies; publishing interdisciplinary journals and special editions of disciplinary journals; and promoting mutual understanding of disciplinary methods, languages, and cultures.
From page 4...
... S-2: Graduate students should explore ways to broaden their experi ence by gaining "requisite" knowledge in one or more fields in addition to their primary field. Postdoctoral Scholars P-1: Postdoctoral scholars can actively exploit formal and informal means of gaining interdisciplinary experiences during their postdoctoral appointments through such mechanisms as networking events and in ternships in industrial and nonacademic settings.
From page 5...
... Academic Institutions' Policies I-1: Academic institutions should develop new and strengthen exist ing policies and practices that lower or remove barriers to interdiscipli nary research and scholarship, including developing joint programs with industry and government and nongovernment organizations. I-2: Beyond the measures suggested in I-1, institutions should experi ment with more innovative policies and structures to facilitate IDR, making appropriate use of lessons learned from the performance of IDR in industrial and national laboratories.
From page 6...
... Professional Societies PS-1: Professional societies should seek opportunities to facilitate IDR at regular society meetings and through their publications and special initiatives. Journal Editors J-1: Journal editors should actively encourage the publication of IDR research results through various mechanisms, such as editorial-board membership and establishment of special IDR issues or sections.
From page 7...
... U-4: The traditional practices and norms in hiring of faculty members and in making tenure decisions should be revised to take into account more fully the values inherent in IDR activities. U-5: Continuing social science, humanities, and information-science based studies of the complex social and intellectual processes that make for successful IDR are needed to deepen the understanding of these processes and to enhance the prospects for the creation and manage ment of successful programs in specific fields and local institutions.
From page 8...
... · Chapter 6 discusses the barriers that federal and private funding organizations encounter in their support of interdisciplinary education and research activities and proposes some innovative funding strategies. · Chapter 7 discusses the role that professional societies play in facilitating interdisciplinary education and research.
From page 9...
... At the convocation, the committee heard the experiences and opinions of representatives from private, federal, international, and state funding organizations who have had leading roles in facilitating IDR; leading senior and junior researchers involved in IDR; interdisciplinary research-center directors; experts in interdisciplinary education and training; and more than 200 participants. In addition, the convocation included a poster session that featured some 30 model interdisciplinary programs and opportunities for participants to provide their thoughts to the committee in written (survey)
From page 10...
... · Appendix G summarizes the statements of interdisciplinary researchers in a wide variety of research fields who participated in three focus groups at the first Keck Futures Conference, titled "Signals, Decisions, and Meaning in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering," held on November 14 in Irvine, California. · Appendix H provides the report bibliography.
From page 11...
... · Managing Collaborations: These boxes illustrate management options for bringing together and maintaining interdisciplinary teams. · Professional Society: These boxes show how professional societies have played a role fostering and facilitating IDR.
From page 12...
... Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications 4-5 Innovative Practice Penn State University, Huck Institutes 4-6 Innovative Practice Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 5-1 Evolution NRC Graduate Program Assessment 5-2 Innovative Practice Physical Barriers to IDR 5-3 Innovative Practice Haverford College 5-4 Innovative Practice University of Wisconsin 5-5 Toolkit University of Southern California 5-6 Toolkit Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute 5-7 Toolkit State University of NY, Stony Brook 5-8 Toolkit UC Davis, Univ.
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... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 13 Lab Society Driver Industry National Academe Undergrad Graduate Postdoc Faculty Structure Policy Evaluation Funding History Managing Collaborations Prof. X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X S X X X X G X G X X X X G X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X S X X X I X X X X X X continues
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... 9-3 Innovative Practice Rockefeller University 9-4 Innovative Practice Purdue University 9-5 Innovative Practice Univ. Washington Program on the Environment, CMU/University Pittsburgh Center for Neural Basis of Cognition 9-6 Innovative Practice Stanford University Bio-X 9-7 Innovative Practice Biomedical Informatics Research Network
From page 15...
... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 15 Lab Society Driver Industry National Academe Undergrad Graduate Postdoc Faculty Structure Policy Evaluation Funding History Managing Collaborations Prof.


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