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Founded in 2000, The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning & Advance Studies (TheATLAS) is a non-profit organization serving transdisciplinarians In the spirit of Dr. Herbert Simon and Dr. George Kozmetsky.


 

TRANSDISCIPLINE: Integrating science and engineering principles.

"...Today, complexity is a word that is much in fashion. We have learned very well that many of the systems that we are trying to deal with in our contemporary science and engineering are very complex indeed. They are so complex that it is not obvious that the powerful tricks and procedures that served us for four centuries or more in the development of modern science and engineering will enable us to understand and deal with them. We are learning that we need a science of complex systems, and we are beginning to construct it..."

 Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon
Keynote Speech, 2000 IDPT Conference
 

2009 ACADEMY GOLD MEDAL OF HONOR
RECIPIENT

Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate


Dr. Mohammad Yunus has dedicated his life to creating opportunities for the world's poor who now comprise over 60 percent of the world's population but live off only 5 percent of its income. For thirty years, he has provided “micro-credit” to tiny businesses in the poorest villages of Bangladesh. With loans of only one or two dollars, small family businesses could free themselves from unscrupulous money lenders who starved their small operations of any profit, thus perpetuating the local poverty.  Dr. Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for improving the lives of so many of the poor.

2009 ACADEMY GOLD MEDAL OF HONOR
RECIPIENT

Lily Yeh, Founding Director and Lead Artists, Barefoot Artists, Inc.

Lily  Yeh is  an   internationally  celebrated   artist  and award-winning founder and former executive and artistic director of the Village of Arts and Humanities. Since 1986, with the help of neighborhood children and adults, Yeh has built the Village from an abandoned lot into an organization and a community. She has infused the Village with her own artistic sensitivity and vision, collaborating with other artists and community residents to create a place that brings art into both the physical space and daily rhythms of life. Expanding beyond North Philadelphia, Yeh’s work has taken her to communities in other parts of the country as well as abroad.