Click below for videos of our capstone event:

Policies for Progress was a day-long discussion on what it looks like for multidisciplinary research teams and external stakeholders to work together to solve a problem, make new connections, and catalyze new ideas!

2019 Mellon Policies for Progress

Monday, May 20, 2019

Videos

• Welcome Remarks
  • Laurel Weldon, Rosalee Clawson, Justin Race
• Global to Local: A Systems Approach to Sustainable Agriculture
  • Principal Investigator - Thomas Hertel
  • Featured Speaker | Robbin Shoemaker | National Institute of Food and Agriculture, United States Department of Agriculture
• Predicting the Risk of Flood, Saving our Coastal Communities
  • Principal Investigator | David Johnson
  • Featured Speaker | Andrea Galinski | University of Florida
• New Models for Successful Interdisciplinary Research and Stakeholder Engagement
  • Panel Chair | Dorothy Teegarden Panelists | Mark Burns, Haixin Dang, Soraida Garcia, Susan Morgan, Savannah Schulze, and Laurel Weldon
• "Tipping Points" in Climate Change: Serious Games and Cognitive Challenges
  • Principal Investigator | Manjana Milkoreit
  • Featured Speaker | Steve Koller | Environmental Defense Fund
• "Do the Right Thing": Big Data, Ethics, and Algorithms
  • Principal Investigator | Chris Clifton
  • Featured Speaker | Ansgar Koene | University of Nottingham
• Interdisciplinary Teams Conducting Engaged Research: Lessons from the Field
  • Panel Chair | Rosie Clawson
    Research Team Panelists | Global to Local, Flood Risks, Climate Tipping Points, and Big Data Ethics
• A Policy Agenda for a 21st Century Economy Grounded in Morality, Justice and Inclusion
  • Keynote: Darrick Hamilton, The Ohio State University

Interdisciplinary Approach to Grand Challenges - Innovative Communication Strategy

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports a unique approach to global grand challenges research, scholarly publishing and communication at Purdue.

The approach catalyzes the involvement of humanists and social scientists in grand challenges research, innovation and policy formation, and embeds policy experts, publishing professionals, and libraries faculty in the scholarly communication process from the beginning.

The evolving model expands our capacity for diverse, multidisciplinary discovery and drives beneficial change in scholarly publishing in order to more effectively and swiftly raise public awareness, inform stakeholders, improve the human condition with the latest research.