The mission of the Student Center for Integrated Education, Research, and Development (CIERD) is to foster effective interaction, collaboration and intellectual exchange between students from various departments at Duke University and to facilitate integration of different educational and research fields. CIERD was proposed to serve students interested in multidisciplinary research and how such research can contribute to new product design, state of the art disease treatment, environmental safety, economic growth, and societal development. The Center will establish the network of department representatives throughout the university to facilitate exchange of information between graduate and professional students. Some of the Center's goals will be organizing a forum for discussing new trends in science; creating and developing novel ideas related to intedisciplinary research; establish a supportive and interactive atmosphere in which students can interact and collaborate; discussing research that can lead to new products and technology; inviting distinguished speakers conducting interdisciplinary research; providing an opportunity for students to discuss research and share technology with an audience which is not focused in that specific field; integrating different fields of education and research to create new scientific frontiers that can facilitate to economic growth, effectiveness of health care and societal development.