Interdisciplinary Research Workgroups
| Workgroup | Purpose | Coordinator |
|---|---|---|
| Plateau Center for American Indian Studies | This CLA-based center will sponsor research, teaching, and outreach focused on Native American issues. It will operate consistent with the MOU between regional tribes and WSU. Its primary focus will be research and service oriented toward the local Plateau peoples and their reservations. | |
| Center for Social and Environmental Justice | This proposed center, in the early planning stages, will facilitate projects that address fundamental problems of social inequalities and those that endeavor to make society increasingly just. It will promote research, education, and social action through multi-campus collaboration. | |
| Environmental Studies Colloquium Group (ENSCOG) | Address and coordinate the various environmental issues, research, and programs within CLA and those in which college units or faculty collaborate substantially with other WSU agencies. | Ed Weber |
| Ethics Interest Group | Inclusion of ethical issues in academic careers, research, and education. | Susan Kilgore |
| GRACe (Gendering Research Across the Campuses) | The group's goal is to bring together WSU faculty, from all campuses and disciplines, who conduct gender research. The group provides a framework for faculty to discuss scholarly work on gender, to plan collaborative research and teaching activities, and to promote exciting, groundbreaking scholarship on gender in all of our disciplines. GRACe Web site |
Noël Sturgeon |
| The Media and Individual Decision-Making Workgroup | This research group focuses on how individuals process information from the media and use the information in making decisions concerning health behavior. It will consider the role of traditional and new, interactive forms of media and will study cognitive and emotional responses to media. | Erica Weintraub Austin |
| Cognitive Sciences Workgroup | CLA departments with faculty actively researching in this field include psychology, political science, sociology, communication, English, speech and hearing sciences, and philosophy. Through this workgroup, these researchers will learn more about each other’s projects, bring in outside speakers, and possibly promote collaborative research. | Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe |
| Social Capital Research Workgroup | Organized to foster expanded utilization of WSU’s uniquely valuable Stowell Data Sets, this research group is casting its net widely to promote greater usage of the collection with the greater WSU community and the larger scholarly public. | Nicholas Lovrich |
| Global Justice and Security Workgroup | This new workgroup emerges out of a proposal for an institute on this theme developed by members of the Department of Political Science, Department of Psychology, and Criminal Justice Program. They are using the workgroup to develop a stronger proposal and to attract additional members. | Martha Cottam |
| Interdisciplinary Arts Workgroup | Provides a forum and action vehicle for arts and design research, teaching, service, and cocurricular efforts and related discussions. | Erich Lear |
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