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• May12, 2014. CSID Director Robert Frodeman will be Principal Investigator on an NSF funded EAGER that will assess the societal impacts of scientific research. Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle, and Senior Fellow Steve Fuller will working on the project which survey and organize the existing scholarly literature on the topic of broader impacts. Read the abstract...
• April 28, 2014. Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle will be Principle Investigator on a new project to examine how philosophy research and practice can better contribute to STEM research and to public policy. CSID Director Robert Frodeman is co-PI on the grant. Read the abstract for NSF Award ID 1353796.
• New Project: CSID Director Robert Frodeman will be the Editor for the 2nd Edition of the Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity. Oxford University Press has contracted with Frodeman and associate editors Julie Thompson Klein and Roberto Pacheco to update the successful first edition for a more international audience. Programs Manager Keith Brown will be managing editor for the volume which is tentatively scheduled for Spring 2016.
• April 25, 2014: Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle will Keynote the upcoming Federation of North Texas Area Universities Graduate Research Symposium. Hosted by Texas Womans University, Briggle will present "What Does it Mean to Be a Responsible Researcher." Read the abstract...
• March 07, 2014: CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook and Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle publish new article in the Journal of Responsible Innovation: "Knowledge kill actions: Why principles should play a limited role in policy making." They examine precautionary and proactionary principles as different alignments of knowledge and action within the policy-making process. The essay next considers a cynical and a hopeful reading of the role of these principles in public policy debates
• March 01, 2014: Programs Manager Keith Brown presented at the 3rd UNT Comic Studies Conference. This meeting explores graphic novels & other forms of sequential art as they are used in and out of the classroom and across cultures. This was a part of UNT Housings new GeeKon week. Mr. Brown presented "Dawning Jedi: Engaging through the Force of Philosophy." Read the talk at his blog...
• New Grant: CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook and Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle are Co-PIs on a new 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.
• Nov 12, 2013. Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook recently gave a webinar about his research on developing indicators for the impact of scholarly communication. Presented at the Association for Southeastern Research Libraries annual meeting, Holbrook argued that there are inherent risks in too much standardization. A common goal for libraries, librarians, and information scientists should be to develop impact indicators that maximize the creativity and freedom of individuals to conduct excellent research. View the recorded Webinar by clicking here.
• Oct 23 - 25, 2013. CSID Director Robert Frodeman invited to be keynote speaker at the International Seminar on Interdisciplinarity in Education, Research and Extension at Universities. This seminar is being organized by CAPES - the Brazilian federal agency for graduate education support and evaluation. Held in Florianópolis at Federal University of Santa Catarina, the meeting will discuss interdisciplinarity and its adoption in the Brazilian national system of superior education. Prof. Frodeman will speak directly to the institutionalization of interdisciplinarity.
• Oct 22, 2013. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook invited to participate at the National Research Council's Workshop on the Science of Team Science.
• Oct 22, 2013. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook was 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...
• Oct 18, 2013. CSID Director Robert Frodeman invited to give a plenary talk at Binghamton University's conference, Making Possible Futures in Research: Working Across the Disciplines. Frodeman will address attendees on "The End of Disciplinarity." See the poster...
• Oct 10-13, 2013. CSID Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook travel to San Diego for the annual meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S). Frodeman will deliver his paper "Peer Review and the Governance of the Academy." Holbrook presents a piece on Steve Fuller, a Senior Fellow at CSID: "Fuller's Categorical Imperative: The Will to Proaction." See the 4S schedule by clicking here...
• Oct 04, 2013. 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. They will be utilizing a community-engaged approach to research that will involve stakeholders in collecting data and formulating an action plan to reduce health impacts. This grant proposal is an extension of Briggle's work in CSID's Future of Energy project.
• Oct 03, 2013. 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 more...
• Sep 27 - 29, 2013. CSID Director Robert Frodeman presents "An Introduction to Field Philosophy" at the invitation of students, faculty, and administrators at Northern Arizona University. He will also give a luncheon talk on "Politics & Technology."
• Sep 28, 2013. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook joined colleagues on a panel at the Conference on Science and Innovation Policy in Atlanta.
• Sep 23, 2013. CSID 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."
• Sep 09, 2013. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, who recently joined Georgia Tech's School of Public Policy as Visiting Assistant Professor, gave a talk there to students and faculty on "Open Access and Its Enemies." A variation on that presentation can be seen at his blog by clicking here.
• July 04-06, 2013. CSID Director Robert Frodeman joins the Society for Philosophy and Technology biennial meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, where he will deliver "The University, Peer Review, and the Rise of Metrics." Look through the program...
• June 24-26, 2013. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook attended the annual meeting of the Science of Team Science group in Chicago. He co-presented on "The Philosophy of the Science of Team Science." Read the abstract...
• June 19, 2013. CSID 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."Appearing as an open access work in GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, the authors propose a structured database for the evaluation of scientists, projects, programmes and institutions, one that will require little additional effort beyond existing reporting require ments. Download the article here...
• May 30-31, 2013. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook was invited to present at UNT's 4th annual Open Access Symposium: Futures of Academic Publishing. He joins colleagues in discussing "Challenges to Open Access Publishing." Look over the schedule...
• May 23, 2013. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, Graduate Fellow Kelli Barr, and Programs Manager Keith Brown contributed a letter, "Research Impact: We need negative metrics too," to the science journal Nature. Read the letter...
• May 21-22, 2013. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook attends and presents at ASU's Communities of Intergration Workshop.
• May 09, 2013. 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...
• May 05, 2013. 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...
• May 04, 2013. CSID 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...
• Apr 30, 2013. CSID Director Robert Frodeman and Chris Buczinsky publish a viewpoint piece, "Humanities not Harvard," at Inside Higher Education. They suggest that the way to keep humanities vibrant is to reject the over-disciplinized model of elite universities. Read the article...
• Apr 26, 2013. CSID Director Robert Frodeman has new Science in Society piece at Science Progress. "The 'Broader Impacts' of Sequestration on Science" addresses research policy issues arising from the 2013 federal budget crisis . Read the article....
• Apr 24 - 26, 2013. CSID Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook travel to the University of Missouri's upcoming Broader Impacts Infrastructure Summit. The meeting invites professionals who support their institution’s ability to meet Broader Impacts requirements and opportunities to discuss the infrastructure needed to coordinate, document, and evaluate broader impacts across multiple projects. Prof. Frodeman will keynote on "The History of Broader Impacts." Look at the Summit schedule...
• April 23, 2013. CSID Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle, as part his work on the Future of Energy research project, wrote "Fracking? Not in my Backyard (or Yours).". Writing for the Australian on-line research news source The Conversation, he examines the global/local identity of fracking. Read the article...
• March 26, 2013. Programs Manager Keith Brown was 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 our campus. Read the article...
• March 22 - 23, 2013. Programs Manager Keith Brown organizes the 2nd UNT Comic Studies Conference. This meeting explores graphic novels & other forms of sequential art as they are used in and out of the classroom and across cultures. Highlighting the diverse UNT faculty who use comics or Comics Studies in their teaching and research, panels will also examine the community connections and interdisciplinary value of bringing comics into student-centered learning environments. Go to the website...
• Mar 14 - 17, 2013. The CSID team attended the Public Philosophy Network meeting in Atlanta, GA, at Emory Univeristy: Advancing Publicly Philosophy.  The conference included a mix of formal and informal sessions on various issues in practical & field philosophy. CSID Director Robert Frodeman, Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, Fellow Adam Briggle, and Research Assistant Kelli Barr led a capacity workshop: Taking Philosophy into the Field of Science & Technology Policy. They also assisted in the organization of a workshop with their colleagues in the Philosophy of/as Interdisciplinarity Network.
• Feb 28 - Mar 3, 2013. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle, Visiting Fellow Wenlong Lu, and Graduate Fellow Kelli Barr attend the 2013 meeting of the Association for Professional & Applied Ethics. They will be presenting a roundtable on Mar 01: The Place of Ethics in Science, Technology, and Engineering.
• Feb 14-16, 2013. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook attends his second meeting of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science's Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility in Boston, MA.
• February 4-5, 2013. CSID 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. Learn more about the forum...
• January 22, 2013. Graduate Research Fellow Kelli Barr joins a distinguished webinar panel of senior research faculty & professionals to discuss current issues in peer review and academic networking. "The Individual and Scholarly Networks" is organized byResearch Trends and the Elsevier Labs and airs Tuesday, Jan. 22, at 7 a.m. Central Standard Time live from New York, Amsterdam and Oxford. Learn more & joing the webinar...
• January 16, 2012. Jason Bennett, Department of History at UNT, publishes a write up about the 2nd UNT Comics Studies Conference upcoming on March 22 & 23. Read the op/ed...
• January 07, 2012. CSID proudly announces the 2nd UNT Comics Studies Conference for March 22 & 23. Highlighting the diverse UNT faculty who use comics or graphic novels in their teaching and research, scholar & fan panels will also examine the community connections and interdisciplinary value of bringing comics into student-centered learning environments. See the call for papers...
• December 20, 2012. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook & Senior Fellow Carl Mitcham published a letter to the editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education: "Chinese Scholars Understand Peer Review's Strengths, Weaknesses." A response to Michèle Lamont & Anna Sun's recent commentary, "How China's Elite Universities Will Have to Change," the letter concurs as well as points out CSID's own efforts to open up dialog with Chinese scholars on the topic of peer review. Read the letter...
• December 07, 2012. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrookpresents at the University of Northern Illinois PI Academy: "Taking a Proactionary Approach to Grant-Writing, Peer Review and Broader Impacts." More info here.
• November 29, 2012. CSID 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. Read the article...
• November 28 - Dec 02, 2012. CSID Director Robert Frodeman addressed student & faculty of the University of Helsinki at different events planned for the week. Besides delivering a talk on "The End of Disciplinarity', Prof. Frodeman also serves as the Opponent in a public dissertation examination on interdisciplinary accountability.
• November 29, 2012. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook speaks on "Designing Evaluation" at Research evaluation: the perspective of a large comprehensive university at the University of Milan.
• Oct 22, 2012. CSID Director Robert Frodeman publishes new article with Synthese. "Philosophy Dedisciplined" examines the predominance of disciplinized philosophy in the United States and offers insights gained from a CSID survey of philosophy departments.
• Oct 22, 2012. CSID 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...
• Oct 17, 2012. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook Synthese article "What is interdisciplinary communication? Reflections on the very idea of disciplinary integration" now available online from SpringerLink.
• Oct 15, 2012. CSID 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."
• Oct 11, 2012. CSID 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.
• September 30-Oct 06, 2012. CSID Director Robert Frodeman leads symposium on "The Significance of Geological Time" at 46th Brazilian Geological Conference in Sao Paolo. Prof. Frodeman will also give a day long seminar on interdisciplinarity to students at the State University of Campinas.
• October 04-05, 2012. CSID 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.
• September 21-23, 2012. CSID Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook co-organize & present at the Philosophy of/as Interdisciplinarity Network's annual meeting. Among participants are Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle & Senior Fellow Steve Fuller. This is the third international gathering of PIN since its founding in 2010. Look over the program here.
• September 05, 2012. CSID Programs Manager Keith Wayne Brown opens the UNT 7 Circles Speaker Series: "Disrupting your Course, Hacking your Education." The 7 Cirlces 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.
• August 29, 2012. CSID 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.
• August 25 - August 28, 2012. CSID Director Robert Frodeman will deliver "The End of Disciplinarity" as the invited opening lecture of the European Science Foundation's 2012 Junior Summit, "Water: Unite & Divide: Interdisciplinary approaches for a sustainable future." The main objective of the Summit is to invite the next generation of leading scientists ('early career researchers') across the academic spectrum to participate in a four-day, in-depth discussion of the challenges and opportunities posed by inter (multi, trans) disciplinary research. Discussions will be fueled by world-class experts from very different academic backgrounds. Download program…
• August 09, 2012. CSID Director Robert Frodeman quoted at length in Science, "Gambling on Transformative Research." The feature article in the Science Careers supplement looks at the "trend 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." Read the article...
• August 01, 2012. CSID 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). Read the article...
• July 12, 2012. CSID Visiting Fellow Jordan M. Kincaid and Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle published an article on hydrofracking in the Politics of Science section of 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. Read the article...
• July 06, 2012. Adam Briggle, CSID Faculty Fellow, published a new piece for the Future Tense section of the the daily webzine Slate: "Let a Thousand Gas Wells Bloom." The article explores innovation through the difference between the precautionary and proactionary principles 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. Read the article...
• June 25, 2012. Keith Wayne Brown, CSID Programs Manager, spoke to high school students attending UNT's annual high school debate camp, the Mean Green Debate Workshops (MGDW). Mr.. Brown discussed philosophy & language with Oratory students as well as philosophy of/as interdisciplinarity with Public Forum teams.
• June 21, 2012. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook & Grad RA Kelli Barr attended at 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.
• June 12 - 15, 2012. CSID Visiting Scholar Wei ZHANG presented “Ecodesign in the Era of Symbolic Consumption” at the 2012 meeting of the International Society for Environmental Ethics in Allenspark, Colorado.
• May 21 - May 23, 2012. CSID Director Robert Frodeman, Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, Senior Fellow Carl Mitcham & Grad RA Kelli Barr organized a 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. This meeting was co-organized among the Humanities & Social Science Faculty at the Dalian University of Technology, the Hennebach Program in the Humanities at the Colorado School of Mines, and CSID's Comparative Assessment of Peer Review project funded by NSF. Visit the website...
• 4/12 - 4/13/12. CSID Director Robert Frodeman was invited to keynote 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. " Download the program...
• 4/13/12. A group from CSID will be representing the Center & UNT at a conference being held by the University of Texas-Dallas: "Science-Policy Interactions & Social Values." Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook & Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle co-deliver "Field Philosophy: Case Studies & Methodology." CSID Research Assistants Kelli Barr, Fábio Valentia Possamai & Zhang Wei co-present on the panel "Philosophizing Through the Value Labyrinth: How Does the Good Life Fare in the Age of Big Science?"
• 4/11/12. 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. Read the article...
• 4/05/12. CSID Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook publish article on the meaning of transformative research at AAAS Capitol Connection. Read the article...
• 4/02/12. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, Director Robert Frodeman , & Grad RA Kelli Barr publish "Good Transformations" at Science Progress. Read the article...
• 3/29 & 3/30/2012. Members of the CSID supported Mesa Verde Project will be presenting the results of their study of how archaeology in the Mesa Verde region of Colorado has recently engaged tribal community representatives in many of its excavations and research practices. The goal of this new endeavor has been to foster research that influences broader knowledge on the rich heritage of the Mesa Verde civilization. As a collaborative research project, UNT investigators approach the Mesa Verde heritage from a transdisciplinary perspective, including photography, filmmaking, philosophy, writing, archaeology, environmental science, and indigenous community members & scholars descendent from the Mesa Verde civilization. Download the flier...
• 3/28/-3/29/12. CSID Director Robert Frodeman was invited to address students and faculty at the University of Texas-El Paso on "The End of Disciplinarity." Not meaning the end of disciplines, which will continue to be central to the academic enterprise for a variety of practical and institutional reasons, Prof. Frodeman addressed how disciplinarity will no longer function as the end of education.  Read full abstract... 3/15/2012. CSID Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook publish article on London School of Economics Impact of Social Sciences Project blog: Resistance to impact criteria can lead to a tightening of the accountability noose .
• 3/12-3/16, 2012. CSID is proud to announce a visit to our campus by Prof. Luciano Floridi as part of our Future of the University Series. In conjunction with the Department of Philosophy & Religion Studies Colloquium, CSID has invited Prof. Floridi's talk "A Plea for Anti-Naturalism" (March 13, 2012. BLB 070 @ 4pm). CSID & the College of Information will then host a graduate colloquium by Prof. Floridi, "Enveloping the world: understanding the constraining success of smart technologies" (Mar 15, 2012, Discover Park B155 @ 6pm). While on UNT's campus, he will be addressing a number of Philosophy, Communication Studies, and Information Science classes & student groups.
• 3/08 - 3/09, 2012. CSID Director Robert Frodeman , Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, & Grad RA Kelli Barr travel to Washington, DC, to run a workshop on Transformative Research. Go to workshop home page...
• 03/01/2012. CSID Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook coauthor new piece at Science Progress: Science: For Science’s or Society’s Sake? Owning the National Science Foundation’s Broader Impacts Criterion
• 02/08 - 02/11/2012. CSID Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook invited to attend COSEE-Florida Broader Impacts Summit in Duck, NC.
• 01/18/2012. CSID Director Robert Frodeman was part of a panel of international experts invited to participate in Geoengineering Our Climate: Science, Ethics & Governance. Concepts for intentionally modifying our global climate — known as geoengineering — are rapidly emerging into the scientific, policy and public discussions surrounding climate change. This public event introduced the scientific and technical ideas underlying geoengineering concepts, while exploring their broader ethical, social and geopolitical implications.
• 12/11/2011. CSID Director Robert Frodeman & Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle contribute "A New Philosophy for the 21st Century" in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Download the article.
• 12/03 - 12/06/2011. CSID Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook will visit colleagues at the UK Research Council & the European Science Foundation. Prof. Frodeman will give an invited talk at an ESF International Workshop on Peer Review to take place in Brussels on 6 December: 'Peer Review and the Public Accountability of Science.'
• 11/25/2011. CSID Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle and his colleagues at the Denton Stakeholder Drilling Advisory Group were featured in a recent Denton Record Chronicle article. The group is pushing for quick action to correct city ordinances that fall short of protecting the public against any adverse effects of hydrofracturing. The group wants the council to pass a moratorium on new drilling permits or pass key changes quickly while debating more comprehensive reforms. Group members developed the principles after hosting a series of CSID supported panel discussions featuring experts on city & state regulations, environmental research and industry practices. Read the full article...
• 11/15-11/17/2011. CSID Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook were invited by Rick Tankersley, PI of COSEE-Florida, to attend the Nov. 16 & 17 Broader Impacts Boot Camps in Miami. Besides presenting their current research on NSF's Second Criterion, they will be discussing whether/how CSID can contribute to and/or participate with COSEE-Florida in future BI Boot Camps. 
• 11/16/2011. CSID faculty fellow Adam Briggle will present in Washington, DC, as part of the New Tools for Science Policy Series. He will speak about his experience collaborating with a science writer to create an article that combines creative non-fiction with science policy analysis. The Series is organized by the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at Arizona State University. For more information, click here.
• 11/05 - 11/06/11. CSID is proud to cosponsor the First South Asia Peace Conference on Saturday, November 5 & Sunday, November 6.  Thirty-nine panelists, presenters, and discussants will cover varied aspects of peace in this critical world region. The ambassadors of Afghanistan and Pakistan are our honored guests, in addition to other presenters and a superb presentation of music and dance.  Learn more about the conference and register.
• 11/03 - 11/06/11. Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook leads a CSID team in a featured panel at the 36th annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) in Cleveland, OH. The panel--"Linking Interdisciplinarity, Innovation and Impact: Both Within and Outside the Academy"--includes presentations by Prof. Holbrook as well as CSID Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle & Graduate Research Fellow Kelli Barr. Senior Fellow Steve Fuller is one of the discussants. Look at the abstracts.
• 10/28 - 10/29/11. CSID is an important sponsor of this year's Phi Sigma Tau Student Symposium at UNT. This year's keynote address is Clair Katz (Texas A&M), “”… an innate repugnance to see a fellow creature suffer”: Self-Sufficiency and Ethical Subjectivity in Rousseau and Levinas" (10/28). CSID Programs Manager Keith Brown and Graduate Research Fellow Kelli Barr will co-present "Philosophizing in the Age of Ethereal Control" (10/29). And Ms. Barr is co-conducting a publication workshop with fellow graduate students (10/29). Download the program.
  
• 10/27/11. 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.
• 10/25/11. CSID Graduate Research Fellow Fábio Valenti Possamai published an article in the University of Barcelona's Revista de Bioética y Derecho. "A posição do ser humano no mundo e a Land Ethic" examines for Portuguese & Spanish audiences the origin of the environmental ethics movement in the Land Ethic of Aldo Leopold and makes suggestions on how the human condition requires a change in our ecological outlook.
• 10/18 - 10/22/2011. CSID Program Manager Keith Brown was invited by Drexel University's Honors College & the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry to address undergraduate students, professors & administrators on the topic "Rupturing Methodology: The Engineering of Radical Interdisciplinarity."
• 10/15 - 10/21, 2011. CSID Director Robert Frodeman, Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, and Senior Fellow Carl Mitcham travel to China for a workshop on "Engineering Meets Sociology and Sociology Meets Engineering" at the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a series of lectures at Tsinghua University, Dalian University of Technology, Northeastern University, and Beihang University. In addition, the CSID team will 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.
• 10/06 - 10/09/2011. CSID is a major sponsor for the inaugural Public Philosophy Network meeting in Washington, DC, Advancing Publicly Engaged Philosophy.  The conference will include a mix of formal and informal sessions on various issues in practical & field philosophy. CSID Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook give a workshop, "Opportunities for Philosophers for National Science Foundation Funding" (10/07) CSID Fellow Adam Briggle presents “What Can Bioethics Teach Us About Public Philosophy?” (10/08) CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook delivers "A Case Study in Field Philosophy: the Comparative Assessment of Peer Review" (10/08)
• 9/30/2011-1/24/2012. CSID is a proud cosponsor of the Spaces & Places: Mapping Science exhibit. The University of North Texas is pleased to be the first Texas host of this important exhibit as well as the world premier site for the 7th set of 10 maps: Science Maps as Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries. The exhibit will be hosted by the College of Information at Discovery Park as well as on the main campus by CSID & the Department of Geography at the Elm Fork Center's Eagle Exhibit Hall in the EESAT Building. Learn more...
• 9/26 - 9/28, 2011. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook was invited to be a key participant in this year's NSF/COSEE Evaluators' Planning Meeting at the University of California - Berkeley.
• 9/14-9/16/2011. CSID Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook played a central role in the 2011 meeting of the Network for Transdisciplinary Research (TD-Net) in Bern, Switzerland. Besides Professor Frodeman's plenary presentation "The Specter of Sustainability" (download abstract), Professors Frodeman & Holbrook organized a workshop for attendees: "Evaluating the Broader Impact of Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research Proposals" (download abstract). See the full conference program at TD-Net...
• 9/07/2011. CSID welcomed Senior Fellows Steve Fuller & Dan Sarewitz as well as Braden Allenby for a talk on the Future of Humanity. The three cutting edge thinkers discussed their new books & current research as well as field questions from faculty, students, & the public. Download the Flier...
• 8/22/2011. CSID Faculty Fellow Adam Briggle organized a public meeting of the Denton Stakeholder Drilling Advisory Group (DAG). The mission of the DAG is to advise Denton City Council on the formation of a new gas drilling and production ordinance, foster a civil conversation about this issue, and serve as a clearinghouse of relevant information. The first open public meeting was a panel of regional experts held on UNT' main campus. Download the Flier...
• 8/06/2011. The American Physical Society highlighted the recent contributions made by CSID Director Robert Frodeman, Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, & Senior Fellow Daniel Sarewitz concerning public debates surrounding a proposed task force to review the NSF's broader impact criterion. Read the on-line article...
• 8/02 - 8/04/2011. CSID Director Robert Frodeman joined his fellows on the executive committee of the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, & National Security. in Monterrey, CA. Ethicists, military representatives & policy makers met to discuss the stresses that constantly evolving technoscience is having on national/public security
• 7/19 - 7/26/2011. CSID Director Robert Frodeman asked to be senior advisor for 14th Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science in Nancy, France. This meeting will focus on the integration of contemporary technologies in sciences and in society. Look at the schedule...
• 7/18 - 7/22/2011. CSID Director Robert Frodeman is an invited keynote plenary speaker for the 6th International Conference on Environmental Future in Newcastle, United Kingdom. He will present Interdisciplinary research and academic sustainability: Managing knowledge in an age of accountability. He also leads the discussion for the track entitled Interdisciplinary Progress in Environmental Science & Management. Look at the schedule...
• 7/08/2011. CSID Assistant Director Britt Holbrook participated in a graduate research assistance workshop.
• 7/08/2011. "NSF's Struggle to Articulate Relevance," a Letter to the Editors by CSID Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook was published in the weekly journal Science. Read the letter...
• 7/05/2011. CSID Research Fellow Adam Briggle was quoted in a recent Denton Record Chronicle article concerning the City of Denton and new ordinances for Shale Gas Fracking. Dr. Briggle spoke about the need for more citizen involvement in such decision making and touched on writing a grant to study the impact of such explorations on Denton's environment. Read the article...
• 6/27/2011. CSID Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook publish new article at Science Progress, "NSF & Public Accountability: New, More Prescriptive 'Merit Criteria' May Hinder Science Progress. The article discusses the National Science Board's latest recommendations for NSF peer review criteria and what these proposals could mean for both scientists & policy makers. Read the article...
• 6/24/2011. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook & Fellow Adam Briggle took part in a panel on ethical and responsible conduct of research for UNT's McNair Scholars Program. Learn more...
• 6/23/2011. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook addresses on ethical and responsible conduct of research at Texas A&M-Commerce to their Chemistry REU students. Learn more...
• 6/18 - 7/18/2011: Keith Wayne Brown, CSID Programs Manager, named Philosopher in Residence at UNT's annual high school debate camp, the Mean Green Debate Workshops (MGDW). Brown will work for his fourth year with young debaters on the history of philosophy, the application of phenomenological methods to develop pro/contra arguments, and the philosophical dimensions of this year's debate topic. This year, campers will be examining whether the United States should increase research & development of human space exploration. The MGDW is the only national high school debate camp with a Philosopher in Residence.
• 6/17/2011: CSID Programs Manager Keith Wayne Brown's coauthored article with J. Baird Callicott, “The Other in A Sand County Almanac: Aldo Leopold’s Animals and his Wild-Animal Ethics,” published in the Summer 2011 (33:2) Issue of Environmental Ethics. Brown & Callicott's coauthors include former CSID graduate RA's Jonathan Parker & Nate Bell. Read the Article...
• 6/15 - 6/17/2011. CSID Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director Britt Holbrook attend the inaugural symposium of the International Network for Interdisciplinarity & Transdisciplinarity (INIT). This network was launched because the field of interdisciplinarity (ID) and transdisciplinarity (TD) is quite diversified, consisting of different subgroups with different strengths, emphases, applications, and perspectives. The organizers envision INIT as facilitating communication and collaborative work among organizations, institutions, and individuals that view ID and TD as a vibrant way to respond to the challenges of 21st century society. View the schedule...
  
• 6/08/11. CSID Assistant Director Britt Holbrook presents as part of UNT's first summer workshop for undergraduate McNair Scholars. Download the brochure.
• 5/26 - 5/29/11. CSID welcomes all of the visiting scholars for 17th Biennial meeting of the Society for Philosophy & Technology held here at UNT by the Department of Philosophy & Religion Studies and co-organized by CSID fellow Adam Briggle. CSID Assistant Director Britt Holbrook participated in the panel Assessing the Broader Impacts of Science and Technology: Case Studies in Interdisciplinary Philosophy.
• 5/20/11. Program Manager Keith Brown and Grad RA Kelli Barr attended the second annual Open Access Symposium at UNT which featured speakers that discussed current trends in the Open Access movement and specific ways that open sources software tools (repository and e-journal software platforms in particular) are improving access to scholarship. This meeting was co-organized by CSID Steering Committee member William Moen.
• 5/19/11. CSID Assistant Director Britt Holbrook presented on the CAPR project for a second round of workshops designed to help doctoral students, post-docs, and faculty members in navigating the grant writing process.
• 5/05/11. CSID Graduate Fellow Ivana Corsale (MA - RTVF) was recognized for her work by UNT's Department of Radio, Television, & Film as well as by the Toulouse School for Graduate Studies. Ms. Corsale recently completed final production on her graduate project film Campania In-Felix with two rounds of support from CSID. We are proud to announce that she has received the Outstanding Graduate Student award from RTVF as well as the TSGS' prestigious Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Award.
• 4/30/2011. CSID Assistant Director Britt Holbrook presented at UNT for a roundtable designed to help doctoral students, post-docs, and faculty members in navigating the grant writing process. Read more...
• 4/27/2011. As part of CSID's Future of the University Series, Professor Michael O'Rourke, a distinguished researcher from the University of Idaho, will present to UNT faculty, students & staff on his current work, the Toolbox Project. "Tools for Collaborating Across Disciplines" discusses O'Rourke's work which aims to enhance the quality of scientific communication across interdisciplinary research (IDR) collaborations. After presenting evidence that the Toolbox Project helps IDR in the sciences, this talk explores the implications this work has for the practice of IDR as well as for the discipline of philosophy. Download the Flier...
• 4/21-4/23, 2011. CSID Director Robert Frodeman & Assistant Director Britt Holbrook participate in the panel "Philosophy Undisciplined: A Broader Vision of Accountability" at the 2011 American Philosophical Association-Pacific Division meeting in San Diego, CA. They will be co-presenting “Philosopher Kings & Philosopher Bureaucrats: The Public Sector’s Need for Philosophy.” These presentations are organized by the Committee on Public Philosophy. Read abstract...
• 4/20 - 4/23/2011. CSID Program Manager Keith Brown attends the annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association in San Antonio, TX. He will present "The Hero’s Labors: Active Craft vs Busy Commerce" as part of a panel on the intercultural influences of Manga & Anime. He will also be moderating three other panels. Read abstract...
• 4/18 - 4/19/2011. CSID Director, Robert Frodeman, attends workshop at NSF headquarters in Washington, DC. Measuring the Impacts of Federal Investments in Research is a two-day workshop organized to aid in identifying analytical data needs & opportunities in assessing the returns to federal research funding across a wide range of fields and government missions.
• 4/15 - 4/17/2011. CSID Program Manager Keith Brown attends The Humanities and Technology Camp - Texas. An "unconference" that focuses on the intersection of the humanities and information technology, THAT Camp - Texas will meet at Rice University and is co-organized by CSID fellow Andrew Torget.
• 4/07/2011. A contingent from CSID presents at the 41st North Texas Philosophical Association meeting at UNT. CSID Program Manager, Keith Brown, and CSID Graduate RAs Kelli Barr & Alexander Mosiak present Finding a Transdisciplinary Path: Philosophizing in the Age of Ethereal Control, a triptych aimed at engaging the connections between dedisciplinization, interdisciplinization, and transdisciplinization. Read the abstract...
• 4/07 - 4/08/2011: The Helsinki University Centre for the Environment invites Director Robert Frodeman to be the Keynote Speaker at its International Science Day Conference for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research. Dr. Frodeman addresses why society needs environmental research while touching on the colloquium's three basic themes: the Baltic Sea, climate change, and sustainability issues. The event gathers together researchers, students, politicians and representatives from the private sector. Read more...
• 3/31 - 4/01/2011: The Health & Economics Research Group at Brunel University, UK, hosts a ‘State of the Art in Assessing Research Impact’ workshop. Director Robert Frodeman, Assistant Director Britt Holbrook, and Grad RA Kelli Barr will travel to participate with and learn from colleagues in this important area of metrics research. Read the Draft Program...
• 3/06 - 3/09, 2011: A New Practice of Philosophy Conference was a great success. Cosponsored by CSID & PIN, this meeting brought together an international contingent of thinkers who are actively working in the field to change how philosophy is done and is received. Look at the program...
• 3/02/2011. As part of its Interdisciplinary Initiatives Fund program, CSID is proud to be cosponsoring the UNT Peace Symposium on March 25 in the Union Lyceum. Besides presentations by scholars, the event will also feature a Sufi music performance. Download the flyer.
• 2/24/2011. CSID Fellow & UNT Professor of History Andrew Torget is organizing a free “unconference” that focuses on the intersection of the humanities and information technology to be held at Rice University in Houston, Texas, on April 16: THAT Camp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) Texas. Learn more...
• Just out from MIT Press: Trading Zones & Interactional Expertise: Creating New Kinds of Collaboration (Michael E. Gorman, Editor) explores a new framework for fostering collaborative exchange among existing disciplines and expertise communities. Uniting two ideas to emerge from recent research in STS, the volume describes applications of the framework to service science, business strategy, environmental management, education, and practical ethics. Download the full announcement...
• Still on sale from Oxford University Press: The Handbook of Interdisciplinarity (Frodeman/Klein/Mitcham, Editors) . Read more...
• 01/19/2011. CSID Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook invited to the National Science Foundation to take part in a panel discussing "How to Get the Most out of Broader Impacts." See his presentation.
• 12/08 - 12/15, 2010. Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook have been asked by the European Commission to co-organize a workshop--Assessing "Broader Impact" in Research Grant Applications. From the program description: With funding agencies worldwide being called upon to demonstrate greater accountability, there remains an acute challenge to successfully integrate societal impacts into the funding process... it is timely to take stock of current practices and to consider options for the future. Download the Workshop Overview...
• To learn more about CSID's work on the comparative assessment of peer review (CAPR) click here.
• 12/03/2010. CSID undergraduate intern Stephanie Santayana has won a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to assist her study abroad in China, in support of her future graduate work in art history.  Congratulations, Stephanie!
• 11/17 - 11/19, 2010. Director Robert Frodeman travels to Vancouver to act as one of four external reviewers for the University of British Columbia's College for Interdisciplinary Studies.
• 11/04 - 11/05, 2010. Director Robert Frodeman and Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook attend NSF Workshop: "Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Innovative Science & Engineering Fields". This meeting will bring together researchers and policy makers to discuss how to maximize interdisciplinary communication to advance knowledge while taking into account broader societal impacts.
• 11/02/2010. Director Robert Frodeman will participate in an invited panel discussion at the University of Richmond's 2010 Crimmel Colloquium, Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinarity.
• 10/06 - 10/10, 2010. CSID Team travels with fellows from UNT's Philosophy & Religion Studies Department to the 32nd annual meeting of the Association for Integral Studies in San Diego, CA. Director Robert Frodeman, Assistant Director J. Britt Holbrook, CSID Fellows Profs. Adam Briggle & Sarah Fredericks as well as Profs. J. Baird Callicott & Ricardo Rozzi will deliver a roundtable presentation on "Sustainability as Interdisciplinarity."
• 10/01/2010. The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity was reviewed on the Director's Blog at Montclair State University's Creative Research Center. Read now.
• 10/01 - 10/3, 2010. Director Robert Frodeman delivered an invited talk, "De-disciplining Philosophy: A New Model for the Humanities" at the conference Enhancing Communication in Cross-Disciplinary Research in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
• 9/27, 2010. CSID Assistant Director, J. Britt Holbrook, responds to the 2010 Reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act: "Accountable Science: The COMPETES Act Needs to Demonstrate an Accountability Attitude," the lead article in the September issue of on-line journal Science Progress. Read now...
  
• 9/18 - 9/20, 2010. Robert Frodeman (Director) and J. Britt Holbrook (Assistant Director) travel to Hamburg, Germany, for the 2010 Philosophy of/as Interdisciplinarity Network Workshop. Profs. Frodeman & Holbrook will be helping this year's host, Prof. Jan Schmidt, and last year's host, Prof. Michael Hoffman, lead discussions in sharpening the focus of what philosophy can contribute to the conceptual and practical challenges posed by interdisciplinary research and engagement. 
  
  
• 9/15 - 9/17, 2010. Robert Frodeman (Director) and J. Britt Holbrook (Assistant Director) travel to Geneva, Switzerland, for "Implementation in Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research: Practice and Teaching." The conference is cohosted by the Network for Transdisciplinary Research (TD-Net) & the Human Ecology Group at the University of Geneva. Prof. Frodeman presents "Dedisciplining Philosophy." Prof. Holbrook presents "On the Phrase “It may be good in theory, but not in practice”: How a focus on implementation might affect our thoughts on inter- and transdisciplinarity."
  
  
• 8/24 - 8/30, 2010. CSID contingent presents at 4S Conference in Tokyo, Japan.
  (1) Adam Briggle (Faculty Fellow) & Steve Hrotic (Post-Doc Fellow) will present on the topic "Post-Modernity and Military Technology: Metaphysics & Ethics in the Revolution in Military Affairs." Their panel considers how despite the historic place of technological innovations profoundly affecting the nature of warfare and statecraft, the latest wave of technological innovations seems qualitatively different—post-modernity arriving at the military world in the sociological and philosophical dimensions of what is known as RMA—the current Revolution in Military Affairs.
  
  (2) J. Britt Holbrook (Assistant Director), Steve Fuller (Senior Fellow) and Sarah Fredericks (Faculty Fellow) will present on Science, Technology, Ethics, and Policy. The panel will explore the broader meaning of accountability in research. Even if investments in science can be more effectively translated into an increased economic standard of living, this does not automatically address wider societal concerns. This panel aims to inspire others in STS to bring their expertise to bear on the science of science policy.
  
  
• 08/17/2010. The School of Humanities & Sciences at Ithaca College invites CSID Director Robert Frodeman to be the main speaker for their H & S Faculty Forum on Interdisciplinarity. As part of his keynote to Ithaca faculty, Dr. Frodeman will focus on what interdisciplinarity means for the dialog between the Humanities & the Sciences, how it figures into curricular discussions, and what its relation is to integrative learning and teaching.
  
  
• 8/09/2010. CSID Faculty Fellow Andrew Torget's NEH proposal entitled, "Mapping Historical Texts: Combining Text-Mining and Geo-Visualization to Unlock the Research Potential of Historical Newspapers," was one of the 28 digital humanities start-up proposals that will be funded nationally this year. This Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant, Level II, for $50,000 is a collaborative effort with another of our Faculty Fellows, Dr. Rada Mihalcea (Co-PI), the UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit, and the Bill Lane Center for the Study of the American West at Stanford. The researchers will explore how advances in text-mining and geo-visualization can advance research in massive data sets of historical information (like digitized newspapers). Read the NEH press release.
  
  
• Robert Frodeman and J. Britt Holbrook were the CSID representatives at a meeting in New York to discuss the state of the art in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and education.  The meeting also included CSID Senior Fellow Julie Thompson Klein, Lorraine Marshall from Murdoch University in Australia, TD-Net codirector Christian Pohl, and representatives from the Association for Integrative Studies, Rick Szostak and Machiel Keestra.
  
  
• 01 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.
  
  
• 27 May, 2010. Nature quotes CSID Assistant Director Britt Holbrook and CSID Faculty Fellow Warren Burggren in its extended article on NSF’s broader impact criterion and on how the criterion itself is affecting how scientists approach doing research. Click here for the article. There is also a corresponding editorial supporting the need for researchers to succeed at broader impact assessment which encourages “a fundamental change in the culture of science to value not just achievement in the laboratory, but also work that makes science a part of people’s lives.” Click here for the editorial.
  
  
• UNT hosted 3TEP meeting May 20-21


• Britt Holbrook presented as part of a Broader Impacts Criterion webinar series.
  
  
• CAPR Peer Review Workshop, 22 and 23 April.
  
  
• Graduate Research Fellow Jonathan Parker selected as the 36th R.E.A.L. fellow.


• Artistically Denton: Celebrating Our Place. April 10 6:30-8:30pm.


• Director Robert Frodeman quoted in The Daily Iowan


• Jayanta Bandyopadhyay will present "Water, Ecosystems and Society: A Confluence of Disciplines." Thursday March 25th in EESAT 320a at 3:30


• CSID issues 2010 request for proposals


• WaterWays 2010 & Fluid Frontier


• February 25, Frodeman delivers "Sustainability as Interdisciplinarity" at Wichita State University


• J. Britt Holbrook presents on 27 January at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.


• Choice has selected the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy as an Outstanding Academic Title.


• CSID issues a request for proposals for CSID Roving Professors


• UNT to host Colloquium on Collaborative Digital Scholarship, December 11.


• Frodeman and Holbrook present at TD-Net conference "INTEGRATION IN INTER- AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH: Forging Collective Concepts, Methods and Practices - Changing Structures" in Berne, Switzerland.


• Click here for an article on proposition 4 and its impact on Texas Universities.


• Congratulations to CSID Faculty Fellow Rada Mihalcea for winning UNT's inaugural Early Career Award for Research and Creativity!


• The Chronicle identifies IT trends at Educause 2009


• Congratulations to CSID Faculty Fellows Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles and Rada Mihalcea on their nominations for UNT's 2009 Early Career Award for Research and Creativity!


• See The New Yorker article "The Predator War" for an analysis of the ethics and impacts of the US drone program.


• Future of the University Series speaker Edward Ayers featured in NT Daily.


• October 29-31, Frodeman, Holbrook, Hrotic, and Briggle present papers at the 4S Annual Meeting in Arlington, VA.


• University of Richmond President Edward Ayers to speak on Wednesday, October 28 at 4PM.


• Britt Holbrook serves as guest speaker for GCISD middle school students .... On October 27th at 4pm at Cross Timbers Middle School in Grapevine, Holbrook addressed Grapevine-Colleyville ISD gifted and talented middle school students competing in the Future Problem Solving Program about the problem of invasive species.


• Director Robert Frodeman quoted in NT Daily.


• Holbrook, Hrotic, and Parker to present at the 31st Annual Association for Integrative Studies Conference, October 8 - 11, 2009 Tuscaloosa, Alabama.


• CSID featured in NT Daily.


• UNT Sustainability Week events, October 5-9, 2009.


• Holbrook addresses Undergraduate Philosophy Forum on "Philosophy as Interdisciplinarity," September 30.


• Frodeman and Holbrook to speak at the "International Workshop on 'Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity'" September 28-29


• Bruce Kuklick to speak Wednesday, September 23 at 4PM.


• Frodeman to give a talk - What is Interdisciplinarity?" at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, CU Bolder.


• PHD Student Research Position in science, technology, and environmental policy at University of Illinois, Chicago


• UNT Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies launches new course in India.


• UNT has been cited as a "school everyone should be watching," after making U.S. News & World Report's "Top Up-and-Coming Schools" list.


• CSID Fellow Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles to talk on Developing and Sustaining a Productive Interdisciplinary Research Team


• Holbrook presents at Department of Chemistry REU Program at Texas A&M University-Commerce.


• 2009 Interdisciplinary Initiatives Fund awards announced


• Postdoctoral Fellow, Steven Hrotic, to join CSID September, 2009.


• UNT featured in article from The Chronicle of Higher Education


• Robert Frodeman participates in and leads a session at the 2009 Society for the Philosophy of Technology meeting in Twente, Netherlands.


• "Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity" -- an international workshop to be held September 2009.


• TD-Net to host "Integration in Inter- and Transdisciplinary Research"


• Access to Jane Harris Cramer's recent presentation available here.


• Frodeman and Holbrook to attend International Peer Review Workshop.


• Parker participates in the 5th World Environmental Education Congress10 to 14 May, Montreal.


• Holbrook participates in NSF workshop 12-14 May 2009, Oslo, Norway.


• CSID issues a request for proposals.


• Jane Harris Cramer to speak at 4:15pm Wednesday, April 29.


• CSID visiting fellow Tsjalling Swierstra to deliver a public lecture on Monday, April 27 at 4:00pm.


• Click here for Mark Taylor's editorial on the status of the modern university structure and the need for interdisciplinary probrlem-oriented programs.


• UNT Philosophy Professor Irene Klaver's Philosophy of Water Project features a panel, "Water and Sustainability," at UNT's 1st Annual EARTH WEEK: A We Mean Green Event on Wednesday, April 22 (EARTH DAY)


• CSID members Robert Frodeman, Britt Holbrook, and Jonathan Parker will join with faculty from Twente University, Colorado School of Mines, and University of North Texas in a Dutch-American workshop on Environmental Philosophy and the Philosophy of Technology sponsored by the Hennebach Program in the Humanities at the Colorado School of Mines, April 19-21.


• CSID visiting fellow Tsjalling Swierstra will deliver a lecture entitled "NEST Ethics" on Monday, April 13 at 4:00pm in ENV 115. Click here for more information.


• CSID will hold its second Monthly Seminar April 3rd from 1:30 - 3:00 PM.


• Click here to find a directory of US Federal science and technology funding agency Web Sites focused on American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009.


• The Federal Register posted a notice on February 26th related to the America COMPETES Act: Request for public comment on requirement for all students and postdoctoral researchers involved in NSF proposals to be educated in the responsible and ethical conduct of research (RCR). Contact us if you are interested in discussing this further.


• CSID to hold its first Monthly Seminar February 27th from 2:30 - 4:00 PM.


• CSID's CAPR project and CSID Steering Committee member Melinda Levin's Global Rivers Project featured in UNT promotional information at Chronicle.com


• Dr. Tsjalling Swierstra to be a CSID Visiting Fellow, March 20-May 15, 2009.


• Dr. Alison Ormsby of Eckert College will be speaking Monday Feb 9 at 3:00pm in EESAT 210. Click here for more information.


• Dr. J. Britt Holbrook's coauthored (with UNT Regents Professor of Chemistry Emeritus Dr. Paul Braterman) article: "Putting Darwin in his Place: the Need to Watch our Language," published in a special Darwin themed issue of The American Biology Teacher.


• The Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy published, Robert Frodeman coeditor.


• Robert Frodeman and J. Britt Holbrook visit Vancouver to consult with administrators and faculty of the University of British Columbia's College for Interdisciplinary Studies on January 28-30, 2009.


• CSID featured in Denton Record-Chronicle and UNT's InHouse magazine.


• Robert Frodeman's "Philosophy Unbound: Environmental Ethics at the End of the Earth" published in the Fall 2008 issue of Environmental Ethics.


• Barack Obama cites and applauds the broader impacts criterion in a recent talk. Click here for his talk and see section 5. Click here for our discussions of the broader impacts criterion.


• CSID Steering Committee member Bill Moen featured in InHouse after receiving $740k grant from IMLS.


• CSID's CAPR project highlighted in InHouse and on the College of Arts and Science's website.


• Nov. 4 - Simone van der Burg speaks as part of CSID's Speaker Series. More...


• CSID Steering Committee member Melinda Levin's documentary film Global Rivers premieres November 5th in Beijing, China. More ...


• Robert Frodeman and J. Britt Holbrook give two presentations at the 30th Annual Conference of the Association for Integrative Studies, October 23-26, 2008 . One, on the subject of "Field Academics," also involves UNT philosophy faculty member Ricardo Rozzi. The other, on the Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity, also involves Julie Thompson Klein and Carl Mitcham. More ...


• CSID has been awarded $394,000 by the National Science Foundation for a 3-year study to examine how different funding agencies integrate questions of societal relevance into the peer review of grant proposals. More ...


• Congratulations to CSID Steering Committee member Mary Harris, who was just named Regents Professor! More ...


• September 15 - 20 - Steve Fuller visits UNT as the inaugural participant in the CSID Speakers Series. More...


• August 25 - 26 - J. Britt Holbrook invited to attend an Ethics Education Workshop at the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, D.C.


• August 17 - 23 - Robert Frodeman, J. Britt Holbrook, and Jen Rowland attend the Gordon Research Conference on Science and Technology Policy in Big Sky, MT. More...