Uniquely positioned in higher education, CMC’s Kravis Department of Integrated Sciences brings together three critical areas of science that will affect humans for centuries to come. As a small sample, this program will focus on three faculty and their important research. Diana Williams, professor of neuroscience will address how the brain’s neural and endocrine control systems influence motivated behaviors such as, for example, eating behaviors; Shaun Lee, associate professor of molecular biology and microbiology, will highlight how bacteria-to-bacteria warfare can help uncover new strategies to fight diseases and overcome the surge of antibiotic-resistant bacteria; and, Rui Cheng, assistant professor of the physics of climate, energy, and the environment, will tell us how she researches the unseeable changes in the environment and evaluates the global ecosystem-climate feedback, such as carbon, water, and energy fluxes between land and atmosphere.