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Developing Successful Interdisciplinary Teams & Proposals
Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Campus Club Conference Rooms A,B & C, Coffman Memorial Union
Discovering and developing solutions to the complex problems facing the world in the 21st century requires joining forces across disciplinary boundaries. More and more funding agencies and external sponsors are requiring that grant proposals take an interdisciplinary approach. Working in teams outside your familiar disciplinary field requires new skills and approaches and begins with the way research and scholarly questions are posed and projects are conceptualized.
This workshop will explore various stages of team and project development, from formulating your vision and recruiting your team to successfully meeting the challenges of interdisciplinary research and scholarship. Through dialogue with faculty who have expertise in interdisciplinary work and with interdisciplinary grant review, this workshop will explore a number of questions:
- What is unique about interdisciplinary work?
- How can you identify and locate individuals with complementary expertise outside your discipline when building an interdisciplinary team?
- How can grant proposals be expanded to include the potential intellectual contributions that diverse disciplines offer?
- How are interdisciplinary grants evaluated? What do reviewers look for in the grant review process?
Panelists:
- David Feinberg, Adjunct Associate Professor, Art Department, CCE Personal Enrichment Programs
- Frances Lawrenz, Associate Vice President for Research and Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
- Kristen C. Nelson, Professor, Department of Forest Resources and Department of Fisheries, Wildlife and Conservation Biology
- Claudia Neuhauser, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Director of the Center for Learning Innovation, University of Minnesota, Rochester; HHMI and Distinguished McKnight University Professor ; Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor; Director of Graduate Studies, Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology
Faculty new to the University of Minnesota are especially encouraged to attend, but all University faculty are welcome.
This workshop is sponsored the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic
Affairs and Provost and the Provost's Interdisciplinary Team.
Space is limited and early registration is encouraged at: https://onestop2.umn.edu/training/courseDetail.jsp?course=CL0012&category=LEADER&unit=CL
Information and registration links available soon for the following workshops:
Mentoring Interdisciplinary Scholars and Researchers
Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Mississippi Room, Coffman Memorial Union
Symposium: Strategic Issues for Interdisciplinary Centers and Institutes
Date: Monday, March 1, 2010
Time: 12:00noon - 5:00pm
Location: Mississippi Room, Coffman Memorial Union
The Pedagogy and Practice of Interdisciplinary Teaching
Date: Monday, April 12, 2010
Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: AI Johnson Room, McNamara Alumni Center
Forming & Sustaining Successful International Research Collaborations
Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010
Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: AI Johnson Room, McNamara Alumni Center
Measures for Evaluating Progress in Interdisciplinary Initiatives
Date: Monday, May 3, 2010
Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Mississippi Room, Coffman Memorial Union
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