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Reports

Excerpts from the NRC Report Bio2010

"Biological concepts and models are becoming more quantitative, and biological research has become critically dependent on concepts and methods drawn from other scientific disciplines. The connections between the biological sciences and the physical sciences, mathematics, and computer science are rapidly becoming deeper and more extensive. The ways that scientists communicate, interact, and collaborate are undergoing equally rapid and dramatic transformations..."

Interviews

Interview: Walter Chromiak and Dusty Rhoads
Planning Spaces for Science: Dickinson College

Essay

Twenty-first century science and the facilities of the future

Facilities matter, from the perspective of serving new interdisciplinary fields of research as well as of making the learning experience for all undergraduates one that is truly integrative. Some ideas and best practices from the PKAL facilities archive.