Nirav Patel Nirav S. Patel is a Research Scholar at the Honors College, where he researches and teaches programs focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to human-environment interactions within social-ecological systems. As a member at the Rutgers energy Institute and Rutgers Climate Institute, Patel focuses specifically on coupled natural and human systems. HIs current teaching involves teaching an interdisciplinary common mission course focused on key issues and challenges as detailed in the UN sustainable developmental goals (SDGs). He adopts an interdisciplinary approach in his teaching and research that is focused on collective problem solving that contributes to sustainable solutions. Participant In: Art and Science: The Two Cultures Converging December 1-3, 2017 Past Event Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the… read more »
Art and Science: The Two Cultures Converging December 1-3, 2017 Past Event Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the… read more »