A working group is an interdisciplinary collaboration that includes
faculty, postdoctoral associates and students. Working groups will
convene at the Center to develop new science initiatives that will
synthesize existing knowledge and to develop and implement novel research
programs and organize proposals that will ensure continuing support.
Working groups can have lifetimes lasting between a semester and
several years and are expected to reside primarily at the Center for
at least one semester. Faculty will be expected to relocate to the
Center, which will provide office space, clerical and computer support
and meeting rooms.
Proposals to use Center facilities are selected through peer review
by the executive committee. The Center will entertain a broad range
of synthetic activities and approaches and will especially focus on
topics that are new, timely and likely to have impact on research
and graduate training at Duke University.