Research
Exploring the landscape of an integrative Biology Integration Institute (BII)
Researchers in GRG are members of an NSF-funded, cross-institutional, multi-disciplinary Biology Integration Institute (BII). There, they conduct research and evaluation work to uncover what "interdisciplinary" means and looks like to BII members, how their membership in the BII influences their identity development, and how the insitute evolves over time.
Analyses under this umbrella include:
- Members' perceptions of the institute goal and their alignment to it
- Defining research integration and interdisicplinary research in general and in the context of the BII
- Identifying members' conceptions of required competencies and attitudes for interdisciplinary research
- Degree of expertise and integration across disciplines among researchers in the institute and changes over time
- Whether or not members aknowledge themselves as interdisciplinary researchers and why/why not
- Value of institute activities and opportunities
- Challenges and barriers for institute members
- How researchers communicate their work to a multi-disciplinary audience
- How graduate student members' interdisciplinary researcher identities are influenced by various contexts in their academic and personal lives, and how their identities change over time
Current Projects:
Examining interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration in the EMBRIO Institute (2022-present)
Exploring Interdisciplinary STEM Identity Development of Graduate Students in Interdisciplinary Biology Integration Institutes (2023-present)
People:
- Soumi Mukherjee
- Emily Georgopoulos
- Alison Stefansic (undergraduate)
- Samantha Sarber (undergraduate)
