Birth defects are an "enormous, but largely invisible problem" in India, says Dr Anita Kar, director of the interdisciplinary school of health sciences at the University of Pune.
Walter Gropius, a German architect, established the Bauhaus as an interdisciplinary school of art and design, which sought to create bright, new living spaces.
Conceived and lavishly funded by Walt Disney as an interdisciplinary school whose graduates would include a ready supply of talented Disney animators, it opened in 1970 (four years after Disney's death), and quickly became the most radical art school in the country.
Because it is an interdisciplinary school, the background of the undergraduates varied but no one majored in mathematics.
We have tailored the four interrelated elements of EWS so that they can be applied to interdisciplinary school activities that employ scientific methods aimed at fostering knowledge, monitoring, communication of warnings, and response preparedness.
RESYT is an interdisciplinary school in higher education for engineers and scientists, has a focus on global environmental protection and sustainable use of energy resources and creates leading experts in management, design and research in utilization of sustainable energy.
The Institute of Technology also takes part in several interdisciplinary graduate schools, such as the International Graduate School of Management and Industrial Engineering and Forum Scientium (see below).
Establishing these interdisciplinary graduate schools "is one of the best things Markl did" as president, says Wieland Huttner from the MPI for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden.
Together with the University of Greifswald, IPP runs the Max Planck International Research School on "Bounded Plasmas," an interdisciplinary graduate school that combines plasma physics with fusion research, computational physics, and surface science.
While it may be on the ambitious and spontaneous side to up and go to one this coming Sunday, this interdisciplinary summer school may be something to consider for the future.
