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- 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 for more information.
- 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. Click here for more information.
- 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 co-authored (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 co-editor.
- 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...