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IDS Major Creates PSU’s First Fully Student-Created Pressbook

IDS Major Creates PSU’s First Fully Student-Created Pressbook Image of landing page for Sticks & Stones by Henry Huang

We have been using the Pressbooks tool at PSU for a few years to create online, openly-licensed books, but until now those Pressbooks have either been created by faculty/staff members or by students collaborating as part of course work designed by a faculty member. Now, IDS major Henry Huang has published the first entirely student-generated, […]

IDS Student wins Social Venture Innovation Challenge

IDS Student wins Social Venture Innovation Challenge Plymouth State Student

Congratulations to IDS’s own Noah Fiske and his project partner Zachary Eastman on winning the 2020 Social Venture Innovation Challenge in the category Most Impactful Story to Engage Stakeholders with their proposal for a Plymouth Cares One-Stop-Shop, a “virtual‚ one-stop-shop‚ that integrates all the resources that satisfy unmet basic needs of students at Plymouth State University into […]

IDS Students Produce Video About IDS

IDS Students Produce Video About IDS screen shot of IDS video

Maya Golowasch ’20 created a video for the Interdisciplinary Studies program with the help of Casey Smith ’19 and a bunch of IDS students and alumni. The goal of this video was to show how IDS can help students who are not finding success in their current major. Students come to IDS for lots of […]

Apply for IDS honors & awards!

Each spring, our End of Semester Celebration includes our Alpha Iota Sigma Honor Society induction and recognition of our senior award recipients. We are currently accepting submissions to the Outstanding Graduating Senior in Interdisciplinary Studies Award and applications to the honor society, Alpha Iota Sigma! All seniors all eligible for the Outstanding Senior Award and […]