More doctoral students report that their dissertations extend beyond their primary discipline, but most aren't straying far from their original subject of study. Many academics these days say that ...

Scientific analysis of funding support suggests that interdisciplinary research proposals are less successful than those focused on single disciplines. This has negative implications for the ...

Interdisciplinary studies come with high risk, but the prospects of both advancing science and pushing forward one's professional career make for high rewards. Interdisciplinary studies cross the ...

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 ...

The challenges facing the world today are more complex than ever, and their solutions are often beyond the scope of any one academic field. The innovations and new technologies we need are ...

Emily VanBuren is a PhD student in History at Northwestern University. You can find her on Twitter at @emilydvb or at her blog, dighistorienne. Learning to be interdisciplinary during graduate school, ...

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 ...

Recently we’ve heard a lot of talk about interdisciplinarity, along with claims that traditional academic departments are limiting the ability of the modern university to meet the world’s most ...

Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway will host a dinner on Dec. 11 to honor the recipients of the annual Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching. The award was established to recognize and ...

Medical Sensors & Imaging will publish innovative research at the intersection of engineering, biomedical and computer sciences Personalized health New journal will publish rigorous, high-quality ...