Promoting Research and Discovery
Discovery is the engine that drives the academic mission of Arts & Sciences. Faculty are constantly generating new knowledge, giving birth to new expressions and forms of creativity, and devising new modes of disseminating knowledge. Graduate students are key partners in the process of discovery. They work with faculty and students in classrooms, labs, studios, and theaters, and engage in the production of original scholarship. Undergraduates are active participants in this endeavor as well, conducting research projects on Grounds and around the world, doing internships, and learning through hands-on experiences both inside and outside the traditional classroom. Arts & Sciences must increase its capacity to support world-class research and focus on ways to integrate discovery across the entire mission. We must target areas of strength and potential that often cross departmental borders. And we must have a broad and flexible foundation that can nurture new research strengths as they emerge and help them to flourish.
