Interdisciplinary Approach to Disaster Resilience Education and Research

Education, Vulnerability, and Resilience after a Natural Disaster.

The extent to which education provides protection in the face of a large-scale natural disaster is investigated. Using longitudinal population-representative survey data collected in two provinces on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, before and after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, we examine changes in a broad array of indicators of well-being of adults. Focusing on adults who were living, befo...

Biophysics software for interdisciplinary education and research

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Forensic IT and Forensic Psychology Education

In WISE 4, Armstrong [1] presented a multidisciplinary view in computer forensics education. The view was primarily focusing solely on the education of computer forensics students, which was indeed along the lines of multidisciplinarity. However, this view does not involve integration between the different disciplines. In this paper, the scope of the approach is extended in order to allow a two...

Vision and Art: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Neuroscience Education

Undergraduate institutions are increasingly adopting neuroscience within their curricula, although it is unclear how best to implement this material given the interdisciplinary nature of the field, which requires knowledge of basic physics, chemistry, biology and psychology. This difficulty is compounded by declines over recent decades in the amount of physics education that students receive in...

PRIDE: Photonics Research in Interdisciplinary Education

A new combined research-curriculum development (CRCD) program at Boston University titled Photonics Research in Interdisciplinary Education (PRIDE) is described. The PRIDE program is designed to demonstrate vertically integrated curriculum development by incorporating three levels of modules into a wide range of existing courses. Examples of photonics research and knowledge are molded into modu...