The focus of this group is cultural diffusion and societal interconnections, but any interdisciplinary subject falls within the group's purview. Geographic Information Science fosters interdisciplinary research and education involving the development and application of diverse digital spatial technologies, including geographic information systems, remote sensing, global positioning, spatial and statistical analyses, and their linkage to social, biophysical and spatial domains. The group sponsors outside speakers, convenes organizational meetings on issues important to the UNC-CH campus user community, operates a home page, and maintains a membership listserver of affiliated groups and individuals. The group's research objectives include developing and using a methodology for tracing the logic of the girls' personal and cultural meaning-making process. The group will hold monthly working meetings and plans to write grant proposals for several related research projects.
More information is available on the group's website .
Global History provides a forum for addressing problems related to the defining of this new, most challenging subject by means of examining what other disciplines and related fields may have to offer, both methodologically and conceptually, through common readings, visiting speakers, and presentations of research papers in progress. Health Care Communication provides a forum for workers in the area of health care communication to hear outside speakers of national prominence and to share their own work. The group will have focused discussions on specific topics or readings and sponsor lectures. The particular topics for each semester will be determined by participants. One goal of the group is to serve as a catalyst for interdisciplinary research projects.