The Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures was created to catalyze and support bold collaborations that will foster the future of scholarly inquiry.
Our mission is to nurture innovative academic configurations that may endure—and even become research and educational models to follow—thus transforming not only Arts & Sciences but also Washington University.
Transcending Boundaries
We believe transdisciplinary research and learning can help us envision better futures. The projects we support:
- Transcend the boundaries that disciplines imply—mixing and merging to lead to something new
- Are deeply linked to questions and problems that connect the academy and society
- Encourage novel thinking about future directions within traditional disciplines as well as across them
Michael Frachetti named new co-director of the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures
Michael Frachetti has joined the Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures (ITF) as its new co-director. Frachetti, who joined the WashU faculty in 2005, is a professor of archaeology and principal investigator of the Spatial Analysis, Interpretation, and Exploration Lab. He will serve as ITF co-director alongside initiative co-founder William Acree.
Next Frontiers in Radio Chemistry team wins an NIH grant to study bacterial infections of medical implants
An Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures-funded team has won a $427,625 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study novel ways to detect bacterial infections that form around medical implants.
A Signature Initiative
The Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures is a signature initiative of the Arts & Sciences strategic plan.
Learn more about the plan