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  • "On Feb. 28, 1953, Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge, England and, as James Watson later recalled, announced that "we had found the secret of life." Actually, they had…The Watson and Crick story is a tale of boundless ambition, impatience with authority and disdain, if not contempt, for received opinion.  Yet the Watson and Crick story is also one of sublime harmony, an example of that marvelous resonance between two minds--that high state in which 1 plus 1 does not equal 2 but more like 10.  The men were in some ways an odd pair. Crick had migrated from physics into chemistry and biology, fascinated by the line between the living and the nonliving. Watson had studied ornithology, then forsook birds for viruses.  But they shared a certain wanderlust, an indifference to boundaries."  (Robert Wright, Time Magazine, 29 March 1999).

    Our committee's charge is to establish three strategic, university-wide priorities in the area of interdisciplinary programming, including curriculum and research.

  • * Final Committee Priorities *

  • Our committee's work is finished. We met 5 times for a total of 5 hours between April 28 and May 31, 2011. Below is the last version of the Google Doc that was started just after the committee convened and to which members contributed during the life of the committee.  It contains observations about interdisciplinarity in general and at DU in particular. Also below is the Committee's Final Summary Report of our three priorities and some selected recommendations.   

  • Google Doc: "Strategic Priorities for Promoting Interdisciplinary Programming at DU" (5/31/11)

  • Final Summary Report (6/10/2011)

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