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 ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A research team developed a medium-entropy thermoelectric material that combines low heat flow with efficient electrical transport by leveraging hidden nanoscale structural features. Former PhD ...