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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		The National Science Foundation's Ideas Lab
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:02
	Publish Date:		2015-12-14 18:00:00
	Description:		In an effort to advance STEM research and education, the National Science Foundation is hosting new workshops called the Ideas Lab, which bring together diverse groups of scientists to form innovative research projects. A recent workshop awarded a total of 15 million dollars to three teams of scientists to crack the olfactory code. Psychologist Lucia Jacobs of the University of California, Berkeley is part of a team of seven principle investigators that received 6.3 million dollars. "So it's a very diverse group. I mean it’s not just throwing out individual grants, which would be wonderful, but it’s actually creating three teams who are going to be working together synergistically across disciplines." Jacobs says the team, which includes mathematicians and cell neuroscientists, will study how humans and animals navigate using smell. "We've got one goal and we're doing it from seven different perspectives. So that's really exciting. That could not have happened under any other grant mechanism."
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