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 January 29, 2024, 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.

2023 IDSA Award Recipients:

Individual Award

Candace Mathiason

Dr. Candace Mathiason’s research and scholarship accomplishments have been highly innovative and have had significant impact in misfold protein biology, transmission, pathogenesis, and ecology, spanning a dozen disciplines through collaborations that range from inter-department to inter-college to inter-institution to inter-continental to inter-national. Her research has led to innovative impacts in the fields of animal model development, virology, prion biology, environmental health, ecology, pregnancy and neonatal health, cell biology/ blood, aging, immunology, population biology, field biology, and entymology. Key impacts of her work include establishing a mechanism for environmental persistence and risk for Chronic Wasting Disease, and possibly all prion diseases; vertical transmission models with vast implications for disease management; new animal model development; diagnostics for misfolded proteins that are associated with unhealthy aging; prion vaccine development; and key research combatting the COVID-19 pandemic, among many others. Dr. Mathiason’s research program has had uninterrupted funding since her faculty appointment at CSU including over $20M in federal, state, foundation, and internal sources, resulting in over 400 citations for her 76 peer-reviewed publications. She has mentored upwards of 75 undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, and professional scientists, and is excited to speak regularly about her research and organize large-scale conferences. In addition, Dr. Mathiason has been actively involved in outreach and community engagement through the Women in Science (WiSCI) Network with a mission of inclusivity in science.

John Slater

Dr. Slater’s scholarship is an excellent example of interdisciplinary scholarship that spans between the humanities and STEM disciplines, bridging techniques, perspectives, and theories from Spanish literature and the history of science and medicine to produce numerous impactful scholarly works. Among his publications of the most recent five years, nine peer-reviewed articles are directly related to his interdisciplinary research, focusing on: the histories of botany (4 articles), chemistry (2), mathematics (1), and medicine (1); as well as the historiography of science (1). This is in addition to writing and co-editing a 2021 series of five bilingual web publications about literature and science. Dr Slater’s recognition includes multiple awards and publications in leading journals and academic presses in his field, invited talks, and notable international collaborations. 


Team Award

No Team Award Winners for 2023