U.S. Agencies Look to Interdisciplinary Science

Research centers receive more support, and peer-review process receives more scrutiny

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

When biologists at Arizona State University started a novel study in 1997 about how people in cities affect the local ecology, they looked outside their department for help.

That led to an unusually wide-ranging interdisciplinary effort, which now involves...

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