Michigan Technological University’s transdisciplinary researchers step beyond institutional boundaries to solve complex problems. Sticky problems. Entrenched problems. Wicked problems. Their solutions ...

Some of the same challenges are encountered in the second policy option, particularly with regard to coordinating existing research funding programs that are strongly interdisciplinary and ...

Why is it important to integrate knowledge and methodologies across disciplines? Catherine Amelink has recommendations to encourage the student engagement needed to address complex, weighty problems ...

Reflexivity is arguably an important aspect of doing sustainability research. The inter- and transdisciplinary character of sustainability research, as well as its change-oriented agenda, require ...

Iago Otero, Frédéric Darbellay, Emmanuel Reynard, György Hetényi, Marie-Elodie Perga, Janine Rüegg, Günther Prasicek, Marina Cracco, Amaranta Fontcuberta ...

Climate change. Social inequality. Civic responsibility. The major concerns of our time are “wicked problems”—complex challenges that lack clear disciplinary boundaries and that require unique, ...

Presented by Jamie Dyer, interim dean, interdisciplinary studies, associate director, Northern Gulf Institute, professor, meteorology and climatology Who should attend? This session is appropriate for ...

Many scientists take a certain pride in the objective nature of their work. The data are the data, no matter who’s conducting the experiment. But growing body of research suggests that’s not ...

Research collaboration: National Institute of Science and Technology in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution (IN-TREE) is a research collaboration whose article ...