This is CSID's attempt to capture our own broader impacts, where we interact with policy makers and the world at large. In other words, here is our own accountability project.
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October 2013
- Director Robert Frodeman invited to be keynote speaker at the International Seminar on Interdisciplinarity in Education, Research and Extension at Universities in Florianopolis, Brazil. This meeting was organized by CAPES - the Brazilian federal agency for graduate education support and evaluation.
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook invited to be participant at the National Research Council's Workshop on the Science of Team Science.
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook invited by the University of Oregon's office for Research, Innovation and Graduate Education (RIGE) to give a lecutre and a workshop on Broader Impacts to administrators, faculty, and students. Read about the workshop...
- Director Robert Frodeman invited to give a plenary talk on "The End of Disciplinarity" at Binghamton University's conference, Making Possible Futures in Research: Working Across the Disciplines. See the poster...
- Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook attend the annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S).
- Frodeman delivered "Peer Review and the Governance of the Academy."
- Holbrook presented a piece on CSID Senior Fellow Steve Fuller: "Fuller's Categorical Imperative: The Will to Proaction."
- Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle and colleagues at HARC (Houston Advanced Research Center) and UNT Health Science Center submitted a $2.5 million NIH grant. They propose to study and mitigate the health impacts from oil and gas sites in Denton. This grant proposal is an extension of Briggle's work in CSID's Future of Energy project.
- CSID is in the news at UNT for the new grant received to devise games that will help graduate students learn the ethics of research. Read the write up...
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook and Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle participate as Co-PIs on ESSE awarded by the National Science Foundation. The $300,000, three-year grant will develop three interactive games focusing on research ethics. The CSID team will be providing the concepts for ethics training that will be included in the games.
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September 2013
- Director Robert Frodeman gave a luncheon talk on "Politics & Technology" to faculty and administrators from Northern Arizona University.
- Director Robert Frodeman presented "An Introduction to Field Philosophy" at the invitation of students, faculty, and administrators at Northern Arizona University.
- Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle worked with community organizers to distribute informational flyers to citizens in a Denton neighborhood who were being adversely affected by nearby gas drilling.
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook joined colleagues on a panel at the Conference on Science and Innovation Policy in Atlanta.
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook publishes new article in RIV Rassegna Italiana di Valutazione: "Designing Research Evaluation: a View from the Perspective of a Large, Multidisciplinary University in the United States of America."
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook presented "Open Access and Its Enemies" to students, faculty, and administrators at the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy.
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August 2013
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook joined Georgia Tech's School of Public Policy as Visiting Assistant Professor,
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July 2013
- Director Robert Frodeman joined colleauges at the Society for Philosophy and Technology biennial meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, where he delivered "The University, Peer Review, and the Rise of Metrics." Look through the program by clicking here...
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June 2013
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook attended the annual meeting of the Science of Team Science group in Chicago where he co-presented on "The Philosophy of the Science of Team Science." Read the abstract...
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook co-authored a new altmetric piece: ""Evaluating Research beyond Scientific Impact: How to Include Criteria for Productive Interactions and Impact on Practice and Society."
- May 2013
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Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook addresses policy makers, administrators, and fellow researchers in Tempe, AZ, for the Communities of Intergration Workshop hosted by Arizona State University.
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Writing on his Blog the Dish, Andrew Sullivan quoted CSID Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle's recent fracking piece from Australian research news source The Conversation. Read the entry...
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CSID was contacted to contribute a page on Field Philosophy to the website for Arizona State University's Communities of Intergration Workshop upcoming in late May. Read the contribution...
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Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle, as part his work on the Future of Energy research project, contributed a reaction at Slate to the recent Norse Energy Corp. v. Town of Dryden ruling in New York State. Read the article...
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- April 2013
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Director Robert Frodeman and Chris Buczinsky publish new viewpoint piece at Inside Higher Education, "Humanities not Harvard," suggesting that the way to keep humanities vibrant is to reject the over-disciplinized model of elite universities. Read the article...
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Director Robert Frodeman publishes another Science in Society piece at Science Progress, "The 'Broader Impacts' of Sequestration on Science," to addresses research policy issues arising from the 2013 federal budget crisis . Read the article....
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Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook keynoted at the University of Missouri's upcoming Broader Impacts Summit to discuss the infrastructure needed to coordinate, document, and evaluate broader impacts across multiple projects. Look at the Summit schedule...
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Work on CSID's Future of Energy research project continues as Fellow Adam Briggle examines the global/local identity of natural gas exploration in "Fracking? Not in my Backyard (or Yours)" for the Australian on-line research news source The Conversation. Read the article...
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Director Robert Frodeman visited Georgia Tech University to act as an external evaluator of their Public Policy Institute.
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- March 2013
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Programs Manager Keith Wayne Brown honored by the University of North Texas for significant contributions he has made to helping the UNT community meet its goals and service to students. Mr. Brown was selected as one of twelve staff members out of 2,700 whose commitment to excellence marks a standard for UNT's campus. Read the article...
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Programs Manager Keith Wayne Brown organized the 2nd UNT Comic Studies Conference. This meeting explored graphic novels & other forms of sequential art as they are used in and out of the classroom and across cultures. High school students, elementary school educators, and librarrians from the North Texas region were in attendance to interact with UNT instructors and invited experts from around the nation.
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Director Robert Frodeman, Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle , and Gradate Researcher Kelli Barr, organized two workshops at the Public Philosophy Network's annual meeting in Atlanta, GA: Advancing Publicly Philosophy.
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- February 2013
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Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle , Gradate Researcher Kelli Barr and Visiting Fellow Wenlong Lu presented papers at the 2013 annual meeting of the Association for Professional & Applied Ethics.
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CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook attended his second meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science's Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility in Boston, MA.
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Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook both address the Global Research Funding Forum (GRFF): Maximizing Opportunities to Build a Global Research Portfolio hosted by the University of North Texas. This invitation-only venue brings together university leadership, senior research & international officers, and faculty.
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- January 2013
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Graduate Research Fellow Kelli Barr joined a distinguished webinar panel of senior research faculty & professionals to discuss current issues in peer review and academic networking. "The Individual and Scholarly Networks." Organized byResearch Trends and the Elsevier Labs, the webinar was simulcast live from New York, Amsterdam and Oxford.
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December 2012
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook presents at the University of Northern Illinois PI Academy: "Taking a Proactionary Approach to Grant-Writing, Peer Review and Broader Impacts." More info here.
- November 2012
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Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle was quoted in a recent Bloomberg News piece: "Fracking Secrets by Thousands Keeps US Clueless on Wells." Briggle is spearheading CSID's Future of Energy project and is active in the City of Denton's process to rewrite local fracking ordinances.
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Director Robert Frodeman addressed student, faculty & policy makers at the University of Helsinki on "The End of Disciplinarity'. Prof. Frodeman also served as the Opponent in a public dissertation examination on interdisciplinary accountability.
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Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook was invited to address colleagues & policy makers on "Designing Evaluation" at the University of Milan's Winter conference, Research evaluation: the perspective of a large comprehensive university. This meeting was organized by Massimo Florio.
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- October 2012
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Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrookpublished new articles with Synthese. Frodeman's "Philosophy Dedisciplined" offers a critique of disciplinary philosophy while Hoblrook's "What is interdisciplinary communication? Reflections on the very idea of disciplinary integration" attempts to answer what philosophers bring toa discussion of interdisciplinarity.
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Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook invited to address annual Open Access Workshop hosted by UNT's Libraries and College of Information. He will be joining colleagues in addressing what open access means for faculty research. See the poster...
- Programs Manager Keith Wayne Brown was invited to address students & faculty of the English, Speech, & Foreign Language Department at Texas Womens University. Mr. Brown spoke on "Dedisciplinizing the University & Hacking a Real Education for the 21st Century."
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Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle was in the news for his work on the local politics of fracking. Besides being quoted in the Denton Record Chronicle's front page story, Prof. Briggle also provided a guest column on the issue.
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- September 2012
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Director Robert Frodeman addressed academics, policy makers, and petroleum industry professionals at a symposium on "The Significance of Geological Time" at 46th Brazilian Geological Conference in Sao Paolo. Prof. Frodeman also gave a day long seminar on interdisciplinarity to students & policy makers at the State University of Campinas.
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook attends his first meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science's Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility.
- Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook co-organized the Philosophy of/as Interdisciplinarity Network's annual meeting. Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle & Senior Fellow Steve Fuller also participated. This is the third international gathering of PIN since its founding in 2010. Look over the program here.
- Programs Manager Keith Wayne Brown opened the UNT 7 Circles Speaker Series: "Disrupting your Course, Hacking your Education." The 7 Circles is a student organization dedicated to exploring interdisciplinary & transdisciplinary ideas as way of integrating mindful practices as a way of life. Mr. Brown is the staff sponsor for this group.
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- August 2012
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook invited to join the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Committee on Scientific Freedom & Responsibility. This committee is charged with formulating & recommending principles and procedures to guide the Association in a continuing review of issues that affect scientific freedom and scientific responsibility. Click here to see a broader outline of the Committee's mandate.
- Director Robert Frodeman addresses policy makers, researchers, and members of the public at "Water: Unite & Divide: Interdisciplinary approaches for a sustainable future." Invited to give the opening lecture, "The End of Disciplinarity," Prof. Frodeman will explore how disciplinarity will no longer function as the end or goal of academic research while offering suggestions on how early career researchers can best position themselves for the postdisciplinary age.
- Director Robert Frodeman was interviewed for and quoted at length in "Gambling on Transformative Research," a feature article in the Science Careers supplement of Science. The piece looks at growing "trends toward transformative research... fueled by nations’ efforts to use science and technology to leapfrog competition in terms of innovation and economic development in a globalized environment."
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook was quoted at Nature in "Science Funding: Duel to Death." The feature article examines concerns among British researchers about the broader impacts criterion put in place by the UK's Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
- July 2012
- Visiting Fellow Jordan M. Kincaid & Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle published an article on hydrofracking at the online journal Science Progress. "Fracked Ideologies: What the Debate Over Shale Gas Might Tell Us About the Future of Politics" discusses the fiery political debate that has been igniting around the use of high-volume hydraulic fracturing for natural gas drilling.
- Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle published a new piece, "Let a Thousand Gas Wells Bloom," for the Future Tense section of webzine Slate. The article explores innovation through the difference between the precautionary and proactionary princples while asking how policy makers, engineers, industry representatives and public stakeholders can be completely objective about hydrofracking when there are billions of dollars at stake.
- June 2012
- Programs Manager Keith Wayne Brown served as philosopher in residence for the Mean Green High School Debate Camp. Mr. Brown mentored students from across the United States in philosophy of/as interdisciplinarity.
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook & Grad RA Kelli Barr were invited to attend the second annual conference on Altmetrics. Holbrook presented Peer review, altmetrics, and ex ante broader impacts assessment – a proposal. Barr offered thoughts on The Role of altmetrics and Peer Review in the Democratization of Knowledge.
- May 2012
- Director Robert Frodeman, Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, Senior Fellow Carl Mitcham & Grad RA Kelli Barr organize internatnional workshop for NSF-China at Dalian University: "Peer Review, Research Integrity, & the Governance of Science." This workshop brings together leading researchers and science agency officials from three cultures – the United States, Europe, and China – to discuss how peer review functions within Western society today, and how Chinese institutions are developing their own models of peer review. Visit the website...
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook's response to CSID Fellow Steve Fuller's recent post at the Sociological Imagination blog was picked up and reposted at the SPARC in Europe Daily.
- April 2012
- Director Robert Frodeman addressed researchers and policy makers at the University of Bielefeld ID/TD conference, "Giving Meaning to Interdisciplinarity in the Organization of Universities A Symposium on the Occasion of Helmut Schelsky's 100th Birthday."
- Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle contributes new piece on Gas Shale Fracturing to Slate.com: "It's Time to Frack the Innovation System" examines what the history of fracking can tell us about America's short sighted research & development system.
- Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook publish The Meaning of Transformative Research at AAAS Capitol Connection.
- CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, Director Robert Frodeman & Grad RA Kelli Barr publish "Good Transfromations" at Science Progress.
- March 2012
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook & Director Robert Frodeman publish article at London School of Economics Impact of Social Sciences Project blog: Resistance to impact criteria can lead to a tightening of the accountability noose
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook & Director Robert Frodeman's article in Research Evaluation is fifth most read in recent report from Oxford Journals.
- Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook were awarded a grant to organize & lead a Workshop on Transformative Research at NSF Headquarters on March 08 & 09. The workshop brought together experts and policy makers to explore the history and alternative conceptions of a term – "potentially transformative research" (PTR) – that has come to play an increasingly important role in policy debates at NSF, at other federal agencies, and in public discourse about the future of science in society.
- Programs Manager Keith Brown invited by UNT English Department to address their Graduate Students Conference on preparing for an interdisciplinary & transdisciplinary future in academia.
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook & Director Robert Frodeman' co-author new piece at Science Progress: Science: For Science’s or Society’s Sake? Owning the National Science Foundation’s Broader Impacts Criterion
- February 2012
- CSID Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook invited to attend & advise at a COSEE-Florida Broader Impacts Summit in Duck, NC.
- January 2012
- Denton Record Chronicle features Fellow Adam Briggle's op/ed on on technocracy and the gas drilling task forc appointed by the Denton City Council. Read the op/ed "An Uneasy Alliance Forms".
- Assistant Diretor J. Britt Holbrook's discussion of the Research Works Act (H.R. 3699) is listed on scienceblogs.com as one of the better blogs discussing the RWA, Around the Web: Some posts on The Research Works Act : Confessions of a Science Librarian.
- December 2011
- The Denton Record Chronicle featured the findings of the Denton Stakeholder Drilling Advisory Group, or DAG, lead by Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle which announced its findings this month in a report timed to influence the work of the city’s official drilling task force, which started deliberations Tuesday. Read the article here.
- CAPR research impacts National Science Board Task Force on Merit Review.
- Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle & Director Robert Frodeman publish article in the Chronicle of Higher Education that provokes debate about the future of philosophy.
- Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook met with policy makers & research agency representatives at the UK Research Council & the European Science Foundation. Frodeman was invited to address a special ESF international workshop on broader impacts & metrics on December 06.
- November 2011
- Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle work with the Denton Stakeholder Drilling Advisory Group was recently highlighted by the Denton Record Chronicle. The group is pushing for quick action to correct city ordinances that fall short of protecting the public against any adverse effects of hydrofracturing. Recommendations were developed through public panel discussions featuring policy makers & experts on city/state regulations, environmental research and industry practices. Read the full article...
- CSID was proud to co-sponsor UNT's First South Asia Peace Conference on Saturday, November 5 & Sunday, November 6. The current ambassadors of Afghanistan and Pakistan were our honored guests, in addition to other presenters and a superb presentation of music and dance. Thirty-nine panelists, presenters, and discussants--academics as well as policy makers & diplomats--covered varied aspects of peace in this critical world region. .
- October 2011
- Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle's CSID-sponsored series of panel discussions, "Urban Gas Drilling in Denton," continued with two events in October.
- The first, on October 20th, brought in a manager from Devon Energy Corporation, a Regional Director from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, and the Executive Director of the Texas Railroad Commission. They discussed the regulatory and business aspects of shale gas production and fielded questions from the audience.
- The second, on October 27, brought in two scientists to discuss environmental and public health aspects of the issue. Both events were videotaped and those tapes along with the presenters' power point slides will be made available at the advisory group's blog.
- Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook travelled to China along with Senior Fellow Carl Mitcham to meet with representatives of the China Association of Science and Technology (CAST), the Chinese National Science Foundation (NSFC), the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the Chinese Society for Studies in the Dialectics of Nature, as well as with various scholars in interdisciplinarity and science policy around China.
- CSID is a main sponsor of the inaugural Public Philosophy Network meeting in Washington, DC, Oct 06 - 09, 2011: Advancing Publicly Engaged Philosophy. Director Robert Frodeman, Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, & Fellow Adam Briggle addressed colleagues and policy makers. This meeting included a mix of formal and informal sessions on various issues in practical & field philosophy, including concrete projects and political problems as well as discussions of larger philosophical questions about how to engage in philosophical activity outside the academy.
- Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle's CSID-sponsored series of panel discussions, "Urban Gas Drilling in Denton," continued with two events in October.
- September 2011
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook invited as advisor/participant for NSF-COSEE Evaluators Planning Meeting in Berkeley, California, September 27-8.
- Almost 140 UNT students, staff, & faculty as well as local Denton citizens came to hear CSID's "Future of Humanity" panel discussion with Brad Allenby, Steve Fuller, and Dan Sarewitz on September 07 in Wooten Hall 222. The event was followed on Twitter (#unthumans) by hundreds of people throughout the Americas & Europe.
- August 2011
- Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle's work on local gas drilling issues featured in UNT Daily.
- Wired magazine announces upcoming CSID panel on Transhumanism in "Beyond the Beyond" blog.
- Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle hosts an open public panel to discuss gas drilling issues affecting Denton citizens. Over 100 citizens, including elected public officials, came to the discussion, Urban Gas Drilling in Denton, which was the first meeting of the Denton Stakeholder Drilling Advisory Group (DAG).
- The American Physical Society cites the recent contributions of Director Robert Frodeman, Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, and Senior Fellow Dan Sarewitz to the public debate concerning a recently announced review of the National Science Foundation’s grant process.
- Grad RA Kelli Barr's CSID blog post Open Access & Epistemology was posted at ScoopIt by an outside reader.
- Director Robert Frodeman attended the first executive committee meeting of the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, & National Security. The meeting was an opprortunity for ethicists to meet, confer, and dialog with military representatives & policy makers on the intersection of national/public security with constantly evolving technologies.
- July 2011
- Physics Today contributor Steve Corneliussen surveys recent Science & Nature op/eds and articles to gain perspective on the evolution of NSF's broader impacts criterion. Corneliussen quotes Director Robert Frodeman, Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, and Senior Fellow Daniel Sarewitz.
- Director Robert Frodeman is a distinguised invited guest at the 14th Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science in Nancy, France. Policy makers, academics, and the public will use the opportunity of the meeting to discuss the integration of contemporary technologies in sciences and in society.
- Director Robert Frodeman speaks with policy makers and the public as Keynote speaker at the 6th International Conference on Environmental Futures in Newcastle, UK.
- Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant. Director J. Britt Holbrook, expressing their concerns on how NSF achieves public relevance, have a letter to the editor published in the prestigious journal Science.
- June 2011
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook & Research Fellow Adam Briggle addressed tomorrow's researchers today by discussing research ethics with undergraduates in UNT's McNair Scholars Program.
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, speaking on ethical and responsible conduct of research, worked with junior college chemistry students attending a summer Research Experience for Undergraduates at Texas A&M-Commerce.
- Research Fellow Adam Briggle quoted in Denton Record Chronicle about work he and others associated with CSID are doing to promote citizen involvement in new City of Denton ordinances concerning Shale Gas Fracking.
- Co-founded International Network for Interdisciplinarity & Transdisciplinarity.
- Program Manager Keith Brown works with junior high & high school debate students from across the USA at Mean Green Debate Workshops.
- Research Fellow Adam Briggle works with high school advanced science & math students at the Texas Governor's School.
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook comments on the pascophronesis blog entry, "If he was serious, Sen. Coburn blew an opportunity."
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook was invited by UNT's McNair Scholarship Program to engage with undergraduates from across Texas and surrounding states as part of an inaugural summer workshop for McNair Scholars. Download the brochure...
- May 2011
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook participated in a second workshop to help UNT graduate students and junior faculty get their bearings on planning, managing, and funding research.
- April 2011
- Presentaiton by Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook at American Philosophical Association Pacific Division meeting is tweeted about by fellow attendee.
- Graduate Fellow Ivana Corsale screens her CSID supported documentary Campania In Felix at the Italian Club of Dallas, the Barry Whistler Art gallery in Dallas, the Global Film Festival at the College of William & Mary, and schedules other film festivals upcoming.
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook participated in a workshop to help UNT graduate students and junior faculty get their bearings on planning, managing, and funding research. Watch the video...
- Director Robert Frodeman attended a meeting of researchers and policy makers at NSF headquarters in Washington, DC, to discuss how to identify analytical data needs & opportunities in assessing the success of federal research funding.
- Research Fellow Andrew Torget orgnaized a non-traditional meeting of academic researchers and members of the public in Houston, TX. Attendees at the "unconference" investigated how traditional humanities are impacted and aided by new developing technologies.
- Director Robert Frodeman keynoted at University of Helsinki's International Science Day Conference for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research. Finnish policy makers, including the President of Finland, were in attendance.
- March 2011
- CSID proudly co-sponsored the inaugural UNT Peace Symposium in the Union Lyceum. Besides presentations by scholars, the event also featured a Sufi music performance and talks by non-academic activists.
- January 2011
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook invited to NSF in Washington, DC, as panelist presenting ideas to researchers & policy makers on how to get the most out of the Broader Impacts Criterion.
- December 2010
- CSID workshop with policy makers at European research agencies at EU Science Commission in Brussels.
- November 2010
- Director Robert Frodeman publishes "Experiments in Field Philosophy" at NYTimes.com blog the Stone.
- Director Robert Frodeman invited to Vancouver to act as one of four external reveiwers for the University of British Columbia's College for Interdisciplinary Studies.
- September 2010
- Director Robert Frodeman talked at the University of Richmond's Crimmel Colloquy on 'The End of Disciplinarity'.
- August 2010
- Director Robert Frodeman gave the keynote address on the 'End of Disciplinarity' at Ithaca College's Convocation to start the school year.
- Director Robert Frodeman talked at the University of Richmond's Crimmel Colloquy on 'The End of Disciplinarity'.
- June 2010
- DotEarth@NYTimes.com quotes CSID Director Robert Frodeman in surveying how researchers & policy specialists think more could be done to lessen the dangers associated with managing Big Risks, like the current deep sea drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Click here to read the blog.
- In New York City, CSID Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook bring together a meeting of North American, European, & Australian thinkers doing interdisciplinary work to discuss founding an international network for Interdiscipinarity & Transdicsiplinarity.
- May 2010
- CAPR team members, Warren Burggren and J. Britt Holbrook, quoted in the science journal Nature, "Science Funding: Science for the Masses."
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook presented on the current issues of peer review to fellow researchers and policy makers as part of a Broader Impacts Criterion webinar series.
- April 2010
- Co-founded Public Philosophy Network
- CSID workshop with policy makers at US research agencies in Washington, DC, at the National Science Foundation.
- October 2009
- Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook featured in UNT student newspaper the North Texas Daily in overview article about CSID.