Special Initiatives

Co-Leads: Tomas Höök (FNR) & Cary Troy (CE/EEE)

Researchers on this team address a suite of global challenges by targeting research, teaching and extension programming on southern Lake Michigan, the Chicagoland region and the entire Great Lakes ecosystem.

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Lead: Robert Marzec (ENGL)

The broad purpose of this special initiative is to build new research pathways between the natural sciences, the social sciences, engineering, and the humanities, placing cutting edge research in the natural and social sciences and engineering in conversation with critical and creative humanities scholarship. The immediate goal will be to share different perspectives and concerns, consider the knowledge produced in and through different theoretical and methodological frameworks, and discuss potentials for building transdisciplinary teams centered on the general objective of imagining sustainable futures.

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Co-Leads: David Johnson (IE/ POL SCI) & Dan Chavas (EAPS)

The Risk & Resilience Special Initiative seeks to find common ground and collaboration opportunities among researchers at Purdue with an interest in risk or resilience from any disciplinary perspective or background and in any application area. We want to learn how different disciplines think about these topics and facilitate matchmaking between methodologists and domain specialists, between risk assessment and risk management experts, and between scholars, practitioners and decision makers. Risk and resilience cut across many of ISF's other research communities, so partnerships with other groups are welcome.