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Current Interdisciplinary Graduate Groups

In spring 2008, the Graduate School issued a call for the formation of new “interdisciplinary graduate groups” in order to seed new scholarly collaborations and provide a structure for the incubation of ideas that may lead to new interdisciplinary graduate education initiatives.  Since that time, a number of proposals to form interdisciplinary graduate groups have been received and have either been approved or are under review.  The following groups have been approved and are currently active:

Asian American/Diaspora Studies

Childhood Studies

Clinical Movement Science

Collaborative in Rhetorical Studies

Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies

Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology

Design

Disability Studies

Experimental Surgery

Human Rights and Transitional Justice

Initiative for Music and Sound Studies

Inquiry on Sustainable Operations

Interdisciplinary Studies in Virus Research

Language and Cognition

Medical and Health Narratives

Microbial Biofilms

Minnesota Scientists in Aging Research

Mixed Methods

Multiscale Science and Engineering (MSE)

Sexuality Studies

Theorizing Early Modern Studies

Please direct questions about the new interdisciplinary graduate groups to Vicki Field, Director of The Graduate School’s Office of Interdisciplinary Initiatives, field001@umn.edu or 612-625-6532.