Inside Illinois: Focal Point projects promote interdisciplinary research
Date:
01/19/2012
All groundbreaking, earth-changing, multidisciplinary research has something in common: a starting point.
And the UI Graduate College’s Focal Point grant program has been providing that starting point for the past three years.
According to Debasish Dutta, the dean of the Graduate College, the program is designed to team faculty members and graduate students from sometimes far-flung disciplines with the hopes that together they’ll find a mutual spark leading to the next paradigm-shifting discovery...
Read the full Inside Illinois article by Mike Helenthal online at http://news.illinois.edu/ii/12/0119/focalpoint.html.
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