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Item Keeping Ahead of the Future: A Blueprint of the Institute for the Advancement of Science and Engineering (IASE)(University of MInnesota: Provost's Advisory Committee for the Advancement of Science and Engineering, 2007-06-12) Neuhauser, Claudia; Berman, Judith; Dahlberg, Daniel; Ebner, Timothy J.; Ekker, Stephen C.; Goodge, John; Gunnar, Megan; Kumar, Vipin; Longmire, Ellen; Mantell, Susan; McGue, Matthew; Paller, Mark S.; Phillips, Ronald; Siegel, Ronald; Sotiropoulos, Fotis; Young, Nevin; Himes, KatherineThe Institute for the Advancement of Science and Engineering will be a system-wide, premier research institute dedicated to contributing knowledge and providing solutions to great challenges that require multidisciplinary approaches across the sciences and engineering. It will establish the University of Minnesota as a leader in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of biological, chemical, physical, engineering, and computational sciences. The hallmarks of this institute are excellence, faculty engagement, and focused investments to maximize the impact of the Institute.Item Transforming the University: Final Recommendations of the Task Force on Graduate Reform: Discipline Evolution(University of Minnesota, 2006-05-05) Ekker, Stephen C.; Garner, Shirley NelsonThe mission of the Graduate Reform: Discipline Evolution Task Force is to create a strategic plan for world-class graduate programs and education with particular emphasis on emerging and evolving disciplines. The University should strive to be a national and international model for the strength, breadth, and especially the interdisciplinary scope of its graduate programs.Item Transforming the University: Preliminary Recommendations of the Task Force on Graduate Reform: Discipline Evolution(University of Minnesota, 2006-03-27) Ekker, Stephen C.; Garner, Shirley NelsonThe Discipline Evolution Task Force identifies the following five recommendations as having the greatest potential for transforming the University commensurate with its Strategic Positioning goals: • Establish a named and high-profile institute, modeled after the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University... to support interdisciplinary scholarship at the University of Minnesota. • Create internal faculty exchanges whereby faculty members work in a department or program other than their own for a semester or two.... • Establish a program similar to the faculty exchange program for graduate students to enable them to develop interdisciplinary expertise.... • Seed and, when appropriate, provide long-term support to new and transformational research initiatives that bring together teams of highly talented faculty and students.... • Implement meaningful systems for assessing existing centers, including the expectation that new and existing centers will close after five years unless there is a cogent rationale to continue them....