Dual Mentored Summer Research  

To encourage cross-fertilization between fields, we have instituted a separately budgeted component of the summer undergraduate research program earmarked for students who are jointly mentored by two faculty in complementing fields. The dual mentored research scholarships encourage faculty and students to explore ways in which their research can benefit from interdisciplinary combinations of fields. We envisage that some of these links may reflect the growing interdisciplinary field of bioinformatics, joining mathematicians and information scientists with life sciences. The links may also reflect the increased emphasis on placing life science research in a societal context, involving our Science in Society Program faculty cosponsoring students with life science faculty.