Interdisciplinary Scholarship Awards
The Vice President for Research is soliciting nominations for the FY24 Interdisciplinary Scholarship Awards. Two awards will be given that recognize either an individual or a team whose interdisciplinary scholarship has had a major impact nationally and/or internationally, or who have demonstrated their potential to do so. One individual and one group of scholars will be recognized. The IDSA recognizes and includes faculty members as well as Research Scientists/Scholars. Each awardee will receive a plaque of recognition and $10,000 funding to support the recipient’s research and/or scholarship program. The award will be presented during the spring Celebrate! Colorado State Awards.
Nominations are due by 5:00 p.m. MT on February 24, 2025, and must be submitted through the CSU InfoReady Review system. The system will not accept nominations after 5:00 p.m. and no late nominations will be accepted.
For more details about this award, including nomination package requirements, please refer to the “Interdisciplinary Scholarship Award Call for Nomination”, found as a PDF on this website and/or the CSU InfoReady Review opportunity site.
2024 IDSA Award Recipients:
Individual Award
Wolfgang Bangerth
Dr. Wolfgang Bangerth has received the IDSA for his exceptionally broad contributions to computer simulations in acoustics, biomedical imaging, chemistry, computer science, education, geosciences, mathematics, mechanics, nuclear engineering, petroleum engineering, and mathematical software. Dr. Bangerth develops mathematical methods for computer simulations and statistical interference that he then applies in interdisciplinary collaborations throughout an exceptionally broad range of the sciences and engineering. Much of his work is also made publicly available through open source software, deal.II, that is widely used around the world by thousands of research groups and has been used for computer simulations from acoustics to zoology. Dr. Bangerth has received the IDSA for his exceptionally broad contributions to computer simulations in acoustics, biomedical imaging, chemistry, computer science, education, geosciences, mathematics, mechanics, nuclear engineering, petroleum engineering, and mathematical software.
Team Award
Joshua Chan, Ed Hall, Jessica Metcalf, Erika Szymanski, Pankaj Trivedi, Mike Wilkens, and Kelly Wrighton
Microbiome Science Team
Drs. Joshua Chan, Ed Hall, Jessica Metcalf, Erika Szymanski, Pankaj Trivedi, Mike Wilkens, and Kelly Wrighton have received the Team IDSA for their contributions to building and enriching microbiome science and scholarship at CSU. This team, a core group of interdisciplinary microbiome scientists, played a vital role in the foundation and success of the CSU Microbiome Network, a community of 70 CSU scientists across seven colleges. The CSU Microbiome Network positively overcomes disciplinary and social barriers which has allowed the integration of microbiome studies into scholarship programs from the sciences to the humanities. This team has catalyzed: (i) interdisciplinary microbiome training, through the establishment of a graduate degree certificate in Microbiome Data Science and Engineering, and each of them has developed and taught many new courses that support the certificate. They encouraged the foundation of and support an active trainee group (GRAM, graduate researchers across microbiomes). They developed and offered a number of workshops in microbiome technologies (including advanced next generation sequencing technologies and bioinformatics). The team founded the Front Range Microbiome Symposium (FRMS), which has become the preeminent microbiome conference in the Rocky Mountain west. (ii) cross-disciplinary research and research capacity that have already led to significant funding and publications, and the establishment of an integrated program called the Colorado State Microbiome Innovation Collaborative (CoSMIC), which will position the CSU Microbiome Network to be competitive for large federal center grants.