Monday, September 22, 2003
A new institute opens soon at the University of Michigan, and it represents the latest trend in interdisciplinary research. With the Life Sciences Institute, the University of Michigan joins the top tier of universities in making a major commitment interdisciplinary research in the life sciences.
The idea is to expose research problems to a wide variety of disciplines, such as medicine, math, physics, pharmacology, robotics and engineering.
On a smaller scale, you will see more interdisciplinary approaches to research. Those of us interested in technology-led economic development can help connect the dots.
In 1851, the first time train dispatching by telegraph in the U.S. took place when superintendent Charles Minot, of the Erie Railroad telegraphed 14 miles to Goshen, N.Y., to delay a train so that his train would not have to wait.
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University of Michigan opens life sciences institute
