A multidisciplinary team is one in which members use their individual expertise to first develop their own answers to a given problem, and then come together – bringing their own discipline-specific ...

Michigan Technological University’s transdisciplinary researchers reach across disciplines and institutional boundaries to solve complex problems that are bigger than a single specialized field.

Michigan Technological University’s transdisciplinary researchers step beyond institutional boundaries to solve complex problems. Sticky problems. Entrenched problems. Wicked problems. Their solutions ...

Transdisciplinary knowledge producing teams (TDKPTs) dedicate their efforts to solving wicked problems. Successful TDKPTs embody characteristics of complex adaptive systems (CAS) and exemplify ...

In its 2018 Federal STEM Strategic Plan, a collaboration of government agencies wrote that science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education should move through a pathway where ...

Transdisciplinarity is driven by the need to address complex real-world problems. It is characterized by the transgression of disciplinary and sectoral boundaries, common goal setting, and the ...

I personally believe that this social contract that you are trying to work out, transdisciplinary professionalism, could be the saving grace. It could be a rudder that guides change. As an M.D./Ph.D.

As an aphorism, “Children are our future” conjures up images of today’s children all grown up, decades from now. As future adults whose wages will be taxed to fund social programs such as Social ...

Efforts to improve patient care and population health are traditional tenets of all the health professions, as is a focus on professionalism. But in a time of rapidly changing environments and ...