TO: UW-Madison Faculty & Staff
FROM: Deans Gary Sandefur, Paul Peercy and Martin Cadwallader
RE: STAR Project
We are pleased to announce the startup of a new campus project to help foster transdisciplinary research collaboration:
Systems for the Transdisciplinary Advancement of Research (STAR).
STAR is intended to help faculty & research staff:
- expand research networks across and beyond campus,
- deepen leadership and management skills, and
- enhance abilities to work across contrasting research paradigms.
STAR’s first programs are beginning soon. Enrollment is free for UW-Madison employees.
Foundations: The Science Behind Leadership & Management [pdf]
* begins January 25, 2011
- 14 weeks of small group meetings on Tuesdays or Thursdays, 7:30-9:00am
- Contact Katherine Sanders at kjsander@wisc.edu to sign up.
Collaboration Incubator: Water Research [pdf]
* forming now
- If you do research on water (from any disciplinary perspective), we invite you to get involved in the formation of a cross-campus water research working group.
- Contact Katherine Sanders for more information.
For more information on STAR, contact the project director or any of the faculty advisers
Director, Dr. Katherine Sanders (College of Letters & Science): kjsander@wisc.edu
Faculty Advisers:
- Professor Judith Burstyn (Chemistry)
- Professor Wendy Crone (Engineering Physics)
- Professor Rob Howell (German)
STAR is funded by UW-Madison with support from the College of Letters & Science, the College of Engineering, the Graduate School and the Division of International Studies.