Unit Meetings

A unit is a group of projects within the same research area. Unit meetings happen separately from your project’s own weekly meeting, bringing those related projects together to share progress, trade feedback, and cross-pollinate ideas across teams.

Opt-In Only

The choice to participate is made at the project level; you decide whether your project joins the unit meeting program. Once you opt in, though, attendance becomes an expectation for your research team as a whole. It isn’t something individual team members separately opt in or out of.

How they run today

Each unit is run by an assigned manager, who coordinates and facilitates the meetings, though who holds that role isn’t strictly fixed from semester to semester.

This program is always being improved. We continuously refine how unit meetings run based on feedback from the researchers and faculty already using them.

Why it’s worth opting in

• Cross-domain input: if your project itself spans multiple domains, unit meetings are a chance to get advice from perspectives outside your primary domain
• Outside feedback: input from faculty and researchers beyond your own project team
• Cross-project visibility: a look at how other teams working on related problems are approaching them

Together, these give your project perspective it wouldn’t get working in isolation.