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But let's talk a little bit about what&nbsp;
we're gonna do the next two days. Today&nbsp;&nbsp;

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is a full group event for most of us here&nbsp;
at the symposium. We also have some guests&nbsp;&nbsp;

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with the beloved community initiative, I&nbsp;
believe they're in the back and they are&nbsp;&nbsp;

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going to be here for part and then they also&nbsp;
have a program that they're doing as well.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Today we're going to be framing what&nbsp;
does it mean to do transdisciplinary work&nbsp;&nbsp;

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as a way of addressing grappling with&nbsp;
some of the big problems of our age.

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Tomorrow we're going to have multiple&nbsp;
breakout sessions where we drill deeper into&nbsp;&nbsp;

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some of those wicked problems&nbsp;
that we've identified&nbsp;&nbsp;

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and they're going to be smaller sessions&nbsp;
that are going to be comprised of very short&nbsp;&nbsp;

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presentations and a lot of dialogue across the&nbsp;
groups for today though let's focus on today.

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We have four sessions planned, we have&nbsp;
our keynote followed by a exploration&nbsp;&nbsp;

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with three guests Andrew Burnett from Know&nbsp;
Innovation, Emily CoBabe-Ammann from the&nbsp;&nbsp;

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University of Denver, and Faith Hawkins from&nbsp;
University of Indiana, Indiana University yes&nbsp;&nbsp;

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so thank you and they're going to talk about&nbsp;
transdisciplinary research to augment humanity&nbsp;&nbsp;

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and some exemplars of what they're doing and&nbsp;
they've been working together for a few months now&nbsp;&nbsp;

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virtually so I'm they probably should be a&nbsp;
lot of fun to to to hear what they have to say&nbsp;&nbsp;

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after that there will be another conversation on&nbsp;
transdisciplinary directions for research funding&nbsp;&nbsp;

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and it will be facilitated by Lisa Lee from here&nbsp;
at Virginia Tech we're going to have two of our&nbsp;&nbsp;

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investment institute directors Karen Roberto&nbsp;
and Benjamin Knapp and we'll also be joined by&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Sunil Iyengar from the National Endowment for the&nbsp;
Arts and really looking at so we want to do this&nbsp;&nbsp;

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work that requires risk how do we frame it how&nbsp;
do we present it so that we can get the resources&nbsp;&nbsp;

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the space the support and so forth to carry out&nbsp;
the work and then at 5:15 we will have one of our&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Virginia Tech's transdisciplinary&nbsp;
research initiatives Coastal at VT&nbsp;&nbsp;

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collaborating with our Center&nbsp;
for Communicating Science to give&nbsp;&nbsp;

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an embodied demonstration of what they're doing as&nbsp;
transdisciplinary work addressing coastal issues.