Interdisciplinarity through internationality: Results from a US-Mexico graduate course bridging computational and plant science.

ABSTRACT: Interdisciplinarity is used to integrate and synthesize new research directions between scientific domains, but it is not the only means by which to generate novelty by bringing diverse perspectives together. Internationality draws upon cultural and linguistic diversity that can potentially impact interdisciplinarity as well. We created an interdisciplinary class originally intended to bridge computational and plant science that eventually became international in scope, including students from the United States and Mexico. We administered a survey over 4 years designed to evaluate student expertise. The first year of the survey included only US students and demonstrated that biology and computational student groups have distinct expertise but can learn the skills of the other group over th

SUBMITTER: Chitwood DH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11503030 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature