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 ...

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 ...

Creative research and teaching increasingly occur at the junction between traditional disciplines. As a result, many colleges and universities have committed themselves to fostering interdisciplinary ...

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 ...

Interdisciplinary work is considered crucial by scientists, policymakers and funders — but how widespread is it really, and what impact does it have? Scholars say that the concept is complex to define ...

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 this article we consider the example of gender studies as an interdisciplinary field, and argue that gender studies, and women’s studies, from which gender studies developed, has a distinctive ...

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 ...

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 ...