Qin Zhu, a Ph.D. student in philosophy at Dalian University of Technology, who is a visiting scholar in CSM’s Liberal Arts and International Studies (LAIS) Division, is working with students, faculty, and post docs as part of an NSF-funded research project on Socio-Technical Integration Research (STIR). Funded by the National Science Foundation, STIR aims to create new kinds of interaction between humanities scholars and scientists (including applied scientists and engineers) in which the “two cultures” learn from each other. Qin Zhu is being mentored by Prof. Carl Mitcham in LAIS; Prof. Erik Fisher of Arizona State University is the STIR project director.