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Integrating Team Science Into Interdisciplinary Graduate Education: An Exploration Of The Sesync Graduate Pursuit, Kenneth E. Wallen, Karen Filbee-Dexter, Jeremy B. Pittman, Stephen M. Posner, Steven M. Alexander, Chelsie L. Romulo, Drew E. Bennett, Elizabeth C. Clark, Stella J.M. Cousins, Bradford A. Dubik, Margaret Garcia, Heather A. Haig, Elizabeth A. Koebele, Jiangxiao Qiu, Ryan C. Richards, Celia C. Symons, Samuel C. Zipper
Integrating Team Science Into Interdisciplinary Graduate Education: An Exploration Of The Sesync Graduate Pursuit, Kenneth E. Wallen, Karen Filbee-Dexter, Jeremy B. Pittman, Stephen M. Posner, Steven M. Alexander, Chelsie L. Romulo, Drew E. Bennett, Elizabeth C. Clark, Stella J.M. Cousins, Bradford A. Dubik, Margaret Garcia, Heather A. Haig, Elizabeth A. Koebele, Jiangxiao Qiu, Ryan C. Richards, Celia C. Symons, Samuel C. Zipper
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Complex socio-environmental challenges require interdisciplinary, team-based research capacity. Graduate students are fundamental to building such capacity, yet formal opportunities for graduate students to develop these capacities and skills are uncommon. This paper presents an assessment of the Graduate Pursuit (GP) program, a formal interdisciplinary team science graduate research and training program administered by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC). Quantitative and qualitative assessment of the program’s first cohort revealed that participants became significantly more comfortable with interdisciplinary research and team science approaches, increased their capacity to work across disciplines, and were enabled to produce tangible research outcomes. Qualitative analysis of …