The Institute for Cosmology, Subatomic Matter, and Symmetries (CoSMS Institute) is currently profiled on the UNC College of Arts and Sciences website. The Institute is a scientific collaboration between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Duke University. In an article originally appearing in Endeavors Magazine, Institute Director John Wilkerson and UNC Physics and Astronomy Chair Chris Clemens discuss how the newly launched institute is designed to bring people from different fields of physics together to collaborate to answer “grand challenge physics questions.” The dialogue focuses on encouraging scientists to collaborate with others outside of their specialized research areas. “We want to get different groups of people talking – from theorists to experimentalists to computational scientists,” Wilkerson says. Click here for the full article.