He didn't see a separate calculus and a separate mechanics. He wanted to know how long a planet took to go around the sun, and he needed some calculus to do it. In the mind of Newton, calculus and mechanics was one subject. It took universities to divide them. Dr. DeTurck answers affirmatively.
People have to deal with data.
You won't bring mathematics into a Shakespeare class, but you could imagine math in art history. Certainly what the Greeks and Renaissance artists were trying to do was very mathematical. The consortium should last for four years. The NSF has already provided a grant for two, and Dr. DeTurck is confident that more money will come. The consortium, then, will come to a close near the end of the decade, around the same time the 21st Century Undergraduate Project is expected to be implemented completely.