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 this special event, explore some research highlighted in the past:
- 2016: Honey Bee Algorithm — (engineering + biology research)
- 2016: Sex Life of the Screwworm Fly — (agriculture research)
- 2016: A Tale of Two Studies — (social science/health research)
- 2015: Of Maps and Men — (math/space science research)
- 2015: Neuroplasticity — (neuroscience research)
- 2015: The Marshmallow Test — (psychology research)
As a founding organization of the Golden Goose Award, we invite you to celebrate basic science with incredible consequences:
2017 Golden Goose Award Ceremony InvitationRSVP here by September 25, 2017.