FALL 2002 • VOLUME 7, NUMBER 2
Getting
Physical: By Putting the Sciences Under One Roof, MHC is Making
Multidisciplinary Education Tangible
 For
the past one hundred years, boundaries between scientific disciplines
have been coming down. Discoveries, more and more, are being made
on the cusp of fields, as well as at their core. "It's a rare
chemist these days who is not aware of recent developments in
molecular biology; any physicist worth her salt knows about photosynthesis;
any good psychologist is interested in the chemical/biological
bases of behavior; and many mathematicians and computer scientists
are describing or modeling physical, chemical, and biological
phenomena," says Frank DeToma, Professor of Biological Sciences
on the Alumnae Foundation. Now some colleges and universities--Mount
Holyoke among them--are building "unified" science centers, physical
embodiments of multidisciplinary philosophy and practice.
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