Editorial: Interdisciplinary people drive groundbreaking science
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Najia, Mohamad Ali
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Over the past 5000 years of human scientific exploration, the
concept of “large interdisciplinary research teams” has only recently
emerged in an effort to solve complex scientific problems of the modern era.
Mammoth scientific projects, where the technical goals have been clearly
defined, necessitated the need for large, globally collaborating teams. The
Human Genome Project, for example, employed engineers, biologists, chemists
and computer scientists spanning four continents. Resting on the successes of
the sequenced genome, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2005
revealed the Roadmap Initiative to encourage, as they term, “new
organizational models for team science.” However, have the ideas of
interdisciplinary science and large teams become inappropriately intertwined
for today’s research questions?
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Office of Student Media; Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program; Georgia Tech Library.
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2014
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