Michigan Technological University’s transdisciplinary researchers reach across disciplines and institutional boundaries to solve complex problems that are bigger than a single specialized field.

Climate research requires environmental science, but climate action also involves economics, technology, public policy, design and collective decision-making. The questions are connected even when the ...

Transdisciplinarity is driven by the need to address complex real-world problems. It is characterized by the transgression of disciplinary and sectoral boundaries, common goal setting, and the ...

Even though transdisciplinary research has been around for 50 years, it is far more pertinent now, given the scope of the challenges upon us. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based ...

With digital media becoming ubiquitous in daily life, simplistic binaries such as digital/analog, off-line/online, and by extension, body/mind, mind-technology (and even human/non-human) are becoming ...

Crossing borders and cultures are part of the challenges and benefits of transdisciplinary research. It took a conflict about Huron Creek in Houghton for Alex Mayer to realize his interest in ...

Global challenges and problems, like climate change, do not respect disciplines or boundaries. They are universal problems that impact all. Therefore, solutions cannot be addressed by researchers ...

Transdisciplinary Research (TDR) is a type of research which is conducted by a close collaboration between researchers and stakeholders of the social issue that needs to be resolved, and the ...