Interdisciplinary Research Generators
Interdisciplinary Research Generators (IRGs) are communities of inquiry that are designed to jumpstart new or expanded research led by teams of faculty, staff researchers, and students. IRGs cultivate research thinking and enable students to complete their scholarly project requirement through course offerings and non-credit-bearing experiential learning. IRGs each have a broad, interdisciplinary theme and welcome students from any major. Faculty/staff members in fields associated with the theme are invited each year to become affiliates. Initial funding of new interdisciplinary research generators is for a three-year period.
SPARK Lab
The SPARK Lab will work with individual students who wish to take a leadership role, either for their own personal or professional development, and ensure they have sufficient time and academic schedule to center themselves around a collective project or lab administration. Leaders will be asked to collaborate with their team (even if that is a team of one), provide bi-weekly updates to the PI and chart their short and long-term goals they hope that the program will satisfy. All labor in the SPARK Lab will be aligned as much as possible with each member’s strengths, passions and pursuits. The PI benefits only if each member can satisfy their individual interests and intellectual growth. This will not be a factory or assembly line. It will serve exclusively as a generator for each student’s scholarly ambitions around learning and AI. All disciplines are welcome and encouraged to apply.
TREKS - Transformative Research via Engaged Knowledge and Scholarship
The Transformative Scholarship Research Generator exists to bring local, regional, national, and international students. faculty, industries, and communities together to develop engaged undergraduate scholars equipped to change the world through the co-creation of knowledge and mutually beneficial projects, tools, and resources focused on improving the quality of life.
Interdisciplinary Sports Studies
ISS is an interdisciplinary network of scholars, practitioners, and students from Purdue University, the United States, and around the world whose research, teaching, practice, or learning interests intersect with sports. The community is undergraduate student-centered, where faculty and staff guide the direction of the generator. Our members examine sports from various perspectives including not limited to history, culture, media, science, engineering, technology, economics, politics, race, class, and gender.
HIFI Bioconservatory
The aim of the HIFI Lab at the John Martinson Honors College (JMHC) at Purdue University is to cultivate a vibrant undergraduate interdisciplinary community of JMHC undergraduate students interested in the science, technology and culture of conservation and sound.
HEalth Ambassadors with the LPII (HEAL)
The Interdisciplinary Research Generator (IRG) HEalth Ambassadors with the LPII (LPII stands for Lilly Purdue Innovation Institute) is a community of practice of students, faculty, and staff interested in the pharmaceutical industry challenge of developing effective and affordable therapeutics to tackle the diseases that currently affect large portions of the world population from cancer to Alzheimer, to diabetes, and many more.
Tech Justice Lab
The Tech Justice Lab (TJL) is a cross-college collaboration that prioritizes the development of interdisciplinary, justice-oriented undergraduate technology researchers and practitioners. The TJL builds on the Honors College’s mission of fostering well-rounded and highly engaged students, equipped with the interdisciplinary knowledge and skills to impact society for the better. Interested students from any discipline, with guidance from TJL affiliated faculty and peers, will develop their toolkits of critical frameworks for evaluating the ethics and social impacts of technology.