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Tear down academic silos: Take an ‘undisciplinary’ approach

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The Soil Factory, a large, unremarkable warehouse on the southern edge of Ithaca, has become a collaboration center in 2021 for students, scientists, artists, community members and everyone in between.
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  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
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  • Global Development
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  • Plants
Solving problems like climate change could require dismantling rigid academic boundaries, so that researchers of various backgrounds may collaborate through an “undisciplinary” approach.

Solving problems like climate change could require dismantling rigid academic boundaries, so that researchers of various backgrounds may collaborate through an “undisciplinary” approach.

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