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Funding Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) is a high priority at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other federal agencies, so the CEAS Research Support Office (RSO) is developing infrastructure, tools, and talent to assist investigators submitting IDR proposals.  In contrast to disciplinary and multidisciplinary research, IDR intentionally engages intellectually diverse researchers and stakeholders in framing research questions, adopting integration strategies for answering them, and developing innovative scientific approaches for their solution. Both big and small IDR teams face challenges like navigating diverse disciplinary languages, methodologies, stakeholders, and research contexts so integrative strategies are important to successful funding outcomes.  In the coming months, more IDR resources will be available on the CEAS RSO website including surveys for evaluating a team or lab’s IDR integrative capacity (transdisciplinary orientation), seminal publications, and links to other useful tools.