Nexus: Networking Across Disciplines

Information and application instructions for Nexus 2025 are now available!

Nexus: Networking Across Disciplines fosters the emergence of interdisciplinary research teams by providing faculty with structured opportunities to learn about one another’s research and brainstorm areas of mutual interest. Through a series of summer workshops, Nexus supports the initial stages of project development as faculty formulate research questions, consider analytical strategies, and identify potential funding sources.

Each year, the Nexus program targets faculty working on selected research areas of focus and distinction and related topics (see past focus areas below). Each participant receives a stipend for engaging fully in the May and August workshops. Nexus has led to the emergence of multiple interdisciplinary working groups that have applied for internal and external funding to support their research collaborations.

The Division of Research has made funding available for seed grants to support interdisciplinary research collaborations resulting from Nexus. UNC Charlotte faculty who completed the Nexus program are eligible to apply, and funds must be used to support a project that emerged from those networking opportunities and follow-up discussions. See Nexus Seed Grant Program 2024-25 for application instructions.

Nexus: Networking Across Disciplines is organized by the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences and the Division of Research with support from the Cato College of Education, the College of Health and Human Services, and the College of Computing and Informatics. Questions can be directed to CHESS Associate Dean for Research and Interdisciplinary Collaboration Beth Whitaker.