
Interdisciplinary Research and Grand Challenges: Academia’s Bold New Frontier
In the 21st century, some of the world’s most pressing issues—climate change, global health crises, social inequality, and sustainable development—are proving too complex for any single discipline to address alone. The result has been a growing emphasis on interdisciplinary, problem-oriented research and grand challenges. Defining Interdisciplinary Research and Grand Challenges Grand challenges are large-scale, complex…