The Golden Goose Award, honoring federally funded research with silly sounding or obscure beginnings that has gone on to have enormous societal impact, will present its 2017 honorees at the Library of Congress on September 27, 2017. In honor of…
Timothy Gay, Willa Cather Professor of Physics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, recently argued in favor of science funding as a crucial prerequisite for economic growth: During the past 25 years, NSF-funded research helped make us a world leader in…
Nick Zeppos, chancellor of Vanderbilt University and Board member for the Association of American Universities (AAU), recently made the case for science funding: Is the GPS that soldiers (and probably you) rely on every day “rarified?” Is the LED bulb, which provides…
Alvin E. Roth of Stanford University and Dr. Jayme Locke of the UAB School of Medicine argue that Congress should continue its long bipartisan tradition of support for scientific research: For generations, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have supported continued investment in basic and…
Former U.S. Representative Rush Holt and former Director of the National Institutes of Health Elias Zerhouni wrote a strong defense of scientific research in The Hill: For decades, members of Congress from both sides of the aisle have championed federal…
U.S. Sen. Gary Peters recently offered a strong defense of science research for the Capitol Hill Dispatch, a publication of the American Physical Society (APS): “The American economy is powered by the leaps and bounds in innovation that generate new products,…
L. Rafael Reif recently argued that funding basic science research is a vital part of maintaining America’s edge in the world: In February 2016, scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech,…
Eric S. Lander, president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University with Eric E. Schmidt, the executive chairman of Alphabet (parent company of Google), recently argued that America’s research funding is the key to jump-starting…
Rush Holt, CEO of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Maria T. Zuber, chair of the National Science Board and the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and vice president for Research at MIT, recently made the…
L. Rafael Reif, President of M.I.T., recently penned a robust defense of basic science funding: President-elect Trump is calling for major reinvestment in public infrastructure—and any American can understand why. We all know from direct experience that much U.S. infrastructure…