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Description
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Synergy Groups are cross-disciplinary, multi-institutional, integrative
mechanisms for jointly owning and solving problems, discovering
knowledge, creating new and innovative ways of thinking and promoting
academic, political, economic and social change. They provide UT
graduate students, faculty, and the community at large with a unique
opportunity by bringing together people with different perspectives
from different academic fields (including the sciences, humanities,
social sciences, arts and professional schools) and from the public and
private sectors. Synergy Groups offer an approach to intellectual
entrepreneurship that enables students to work collaboratively with
people from multiple academic disciplines and organizations. Synergy Group participants work in areas such as health, childcare,
environment, race relations, education and literacy, and technology. Synergy
Group outcomes range from public policy proposals, to corporate
strategies and partnerships, to funded and published research, to
cross-disciplinary, issue oriented courses taught by a variety of
teachers to interested parties on and off campus, to new ways of
discovering and communicating knowledge, to the spin-off of
"communities of practice" (groups and structures for
continuing the work).
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