Abstract
Interdisciplinary Education: The Advanced Science Research Center.
Highlights
Joshua Brumberg, Dean of the Sciences at The Graduate Center, and Annette ‘‘Nina’’ Gray, Associate Dean of the Sciences at The Graduate Center and Executive Director at CUNY ASRC, discuss both the benefits and the challenges of running an interdisciplinary research institution
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Joshua Brumberg, Dean of the Sciences at The Graduate Center, and Annette ‘‘Nina’’ Gray, Associate Dean of the Sciences at The Graduate Center and Executive Director at CUNY ASRC, discuss both the benefits and the challenges of running an interdisciplinary research institution. Nina: We are mindful that, independent of exploring interdisciplinary research collaborations, time can be a major challenge for faculty. This is especially the case for junior faculty who are still establishing themselves and seeking tenure. When I ask someone what PDE stands for—physicists and engineers say partial differential equations, whereas biologists say phosphodiesterase To help bridge this communication gap we have weekly ‘‘Science Cafes’’ hosted by one of our five initiatives. In these cafes, someone gets up and gives a short talk about what they do in a way that everyone can understand. We are taking a similar approach with graduate students, where we are increasingly asking them to give short talks (1 slide, 3 min) to groups of other students not in their fields as a way of getting them to fine-tune their elevator talks to a general audience
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