![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090509061206im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Biologists Are From Mars, Chemists Are From Venus?
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April 30, 2008
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Steve Fifield, associate policy scientist at the University of Delaware, is leading research to uncover how scientists from different disciplines form working relationships. The findings will shed light on scientific collaboration--a process about which little is known, but much is expected.
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Source University of Delaware
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