New Directions Chronology
8/05
Carl Mitcham publishes the Encyclopedia for Science, Technology, and Ethics (MacMillan Reference)
7/05
New Directions launches phase 2: 'New Directions: Science, Humanities, Policy,' and posts newly designed website.
6/05
New Directions space policy institute launched.
9/04
New Directions home moves to the University of North Texas, which provides continuing funding.
6/04
New Directions runs international workshop in St Petersburg, Russia.New Directions launches the Humanities Policy website.
11/03
NASA awards three year grant in support of New Directions
10/03
New Directions workshop held at Penn State University.
5/02
The University of North Texas joins New Directions as an academic member.
3/02
Columbia University (Earth Institute) joins New Directions as an academic member.
1/02
NASA joins New Directions, making a financial contribution and is joining in the planning of the workshops and conference. New Directions issues a request for proposals (RFP) to fund six case studies in interdisciplinarity.
12/01
Frodeman spent Dec. 6th and 7th at the Geological Survey of
Canada in Vancouver, BC, attending and speaking at the Earth System
Science "Common Ground" workshop. Murray Journay of the GSC will be
joining us at Bio2 in March, and will be making a presentation on the
Georgia Basin Futures Project. To learn more about this project, check
out the link under "models of interdisciplinarity," and play the Quest game
linked there.
