ESTS Interdisciplinary Project Support
Gina Siesing, Director, UIT Educational & Scholarly Technology Services
6/21/11
Genres of ESTS Interdisciplinary Support:
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Making tools and services available (Spark, Trunk, VUE, instructional design
and project plan consulting)
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Specific project collaborations and support
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Cross-pollination from one discipline to another
Specific Projects:
1. University Seminar - Stem Cells and Human Enhancement: Scientific
Frontiers, Ethics, and Policy (Spring 2011)
Faculty: Jonathan Garlick, Professor, Director, Division of Tissue Engineering and
Cancer Biology, School of Dental Medicine
Sheldon Krimsky, Professor, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and
Planning, School of Arts and Sciences
David Kaplan, Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of
Engineering
Mitchell Silver, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, School of Arts and Sciences
Department(s):Environmental Studies, Biology, Communications and Media Studies,
Child Development
2. University Seminar: One Health: Interdisciplinary Approaches to People,
Animals and the Environment (Spring 2011)
Faculty: Gretchen Kaufman, Assistant Professor of Wildlife Medicine in the,
Department of Environmental and Population Health, Director of the Tufts Center
for Conservation Medicine, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Joann M. Lindenmayer, Associate Professor of Public Health in the Department of
Environmental and Population Health, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
J. Michael Reed, Professor of Biology, School of Arts & Sciences
Elena N. Naumova, Associate Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine,
Director of the Tufts Initiative for the Forecasting and Modeling of Infectious
Diseases, School of Medicine
3. University Seminar: Child and Youth Development: International
Perspectives on Children in Exceptionally Difficult Circumstances
Faculty: M. Ann Easterbrooks, Professor, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child
Development, School of Arts and Sciences
Christina D. Economos, Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health and Family
Medicine, School of Medicine, Associate Director, John Hancock Center for Physical
Activity and Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Laurie C. Miller, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Director,
International Adoption Clinic, School of Medicine
4. University Seminar: Water & Diplomacy: Water Science and Systems | Public
Policy Science & Ecological Economics
Faculty: Shafiqul Islam, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Associate Dean of Research, School of Engineering
William Moomaw, Professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Kent Portney, Professor, Department of Political Science
J. Michael Reed, Professor, Department of Biology
Richard Vogel, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
5. Title: Tufts Collaborates: ISLAM ON THE INDIAN OCEAN RIM
Faculty: A course, based on the digital humanities, jointly taught by members of IR
faculty of Tufts History Department (Ayesha Jalal and Kris Manjapra), a member of
the Fletcher School faculty (Vali Nasr), and a member of the Harvard History
Department (Sugata Bose).
Start Date: 7/1/2011
Department(s): IR, Fletcher, Harvard History
Description: A new digital humanities teaching resource on “Islam on the Indian
Ocean Rim”, with visualization functions, that will provide expertise on PakistanIndia-Bangladesh relations from the fields of academia, public policy and journalism.
The web portal will also create a link between classrooms at Tufts University and at
the Lahore University for Management Sciences (LUMS) during the Spring 2012
semester through video conferencing. This web portal will serve as a pilot project,
to be expanded with the help of federal funding in a subsequent grant phase.
A research essay jointly written by the four collaborating scholars on “Islam and
Cosmopolitan Politics in South Asia”, to be published in the Economic & Political
Weekly in May 2012.
Four op-ed pieces on different topics related to theme “Islam on the Indian Ocean
Rim” written collaboratively by the research scholars and published in major
newspapers in the United States and in the region.
This project will serve as a springboard for three major grant applications we plan
in 2012 to the NEH Building Bridges Grant, the NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up
Grant, and the SSRC Grant “Islamic Traditions and the Muslim World in Global
Context”.
NEH Collaborate Research grant in 2010 for his oral history project on Bengali
Intellectuals in the Age of Decolonization < http://bengaloralhistory.tufts.edu/>
Web Development (Technical Input)
$3000
Video Link Equipment and A/V Assistant
$2000
“The main support we will need will involve programming the web portal for our
digital humanities course, web design, as well as assistance in setting up the video
links to Lahore. Please see the attached project overview.“
6. Title: Tufts Innovates: New Course in Environmental Communication
Faculty: Colin Orians, Julie Dobrow, Regina Raboin
Start Date: 7/1/2011
Department(s):Environmental Studies, Biology, Communications and Media Studies,
Child Development
“Improving environmental literacy and communication through the lens of natural
and social sciences, multimedia, and primary source material”
7. Title: Tufts Innovates (and NSF?) - Humanizing the Sciences through
Interdisciplinary, Interpersonal, and Ensemble Learning: An Introductory
Course for Freshmen and Sophomore Students
Faculty: Jonathan Garlick
Start Date: 7/1/2011
Department(s): Oral/Maxillofacial Pathology
“Engaging and supporting students in sciences through interdisciplinary “ensemble”
team teaching and learning”
8. NEH Proposal: Kris Manjapra, Bengali Intellectual Oral History
9. GeoPortal @ Tufts
10. Poincare Institute – middle school math educators program online:
Faculty: Roger Tobin, Physics & Astronomy; Montserrat Teixidor y Bigas, Math;
Anna Schliemann, Education