Faculty Research
The Weidenbaum Center supports faculty research in the departments of political science, sociology, and economics. The Center provides a wide array of research support through faculty research grants, external grant application assistance, faculty workshops, survey support, student research assistance, and public policy programs.
The Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures (ITF), a signature initiative of the Arts & Sciences Strategic Plan, was created to catalyze and support bold collaborations that foster the future of scholarly inquiry. ITF achieves its mission to nurture innovative academic configurations in part by funding multiyear thematic clusters and programmatic grants. These clusters and grants bring together faculty from across Washington University to collaborate on novel ideas, unprecedented learning opportunities, and possible solutions to the world’s most critical issues.
The transdisciplinary collaborations supported by ITF are anticipated to endure in both research and educational models, transforming research infrastructure and enhancing the global visibility of both Arts & Sciences and Washington University as a whole. Betsy Sinclair, ITF co-director, professor of political science, and Weidenbaum Resident Fellow says, "This funding represents the beginning of one of our key goals — building the kind of collaborative community imagined by the faculty as part of the A&S strategic plan.”