Check out the STEAM Factory faculty interdisciplinary course offerings for Spring Semester 2015.  These courses will offer students the opportunity to dive deep into subjects that span across multiple disciplines including medicine, biology, engineering, business and art.  Students can register for these classes through Buckeye Link.

ArtEduc 7795(G): Managing Creativity in the Cultural Economy

This course explores the world of the artist and the arts administrator through an examination of the creative and practical aspects of the for-profit and nonprofit cultural industries. Students will investigate the issues inherent in generating creativity for cultural producers and the challenges inherent in opportunities found in managing creative individuals and organizations.

Course Director: Shoshanah B.D. Goldberg-Miller, Department of Arts Administration, Education, and Policy

BMI 5730: Introduction to Bioinformatics

This course offers students of all backgrounds an opportunity to explore the growing field of bioinformatics.  Definitions, theories, and methods that serve as the foundations for this intersection of big data, biology, and medicine will be taught by experts in those fields.

Course Director: James L. Chen, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Department of Internal Medicine

MECHENG 5194: Engineering Principles in Cancer

This course introduces Engineering principles in context of cancer progression and therapy.  Students will be exposed to results from both basic science and clinical settings integrated with engineering principles in order to understand cancer progression and why certain therapies fail.

Course Director: Jonathan Song, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and member of the Molecular Biology and Cancer Genetics Program at Ohio State’s Comprehensive Cancer Center