Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
September 25, 2014
Congressional Elections Have Consequences for Social Science
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We Should Be Happy Federal Tax Dollars Funded Rat Massage
The latest winners of the Gold Goose Award for seemingly weird science with big practical benefits are researchers whose brush with lab rat love is now helping thousands of preemies.
National Science Board: Defining the Case for Social Science
UPDATING: A presentation on social, behavioral and economic sciences funded by the National Science Foundation pressed one overriding message: we matter.
Latest Iteration of America COMPETES on Senate Floor
A U.S. Senate bill to renew the landmark America COMPETES Act, and to contest with NSF funding authorization contained with the House’s FIRST Act, was introduced this week.
The Importance of NSF’s SBE Directorate and a Fond Farewell to its First Leader
A seminal figure in solidifying the importance and position of the social and behavioral sciences in the federal research infrastructure, sociologist Cora Marrett leaves the National Science Foundation next month.
Beware the Lessons of Competitive US Higher Ed
Other nations looking at successful American universities and seeing the invisible hand of the marketplace at work should take a closer look at the arm attached to that hand, argues Steve C. Ward.
Spending Australia’s Research Dollars More Wisely
Australia allocates around A$9 billion a year of taxpayers’ money for research, but how do we know if that money is being spent wisely?
Congress Questions Benefits of Government-Funded Research?
Trying to measure the benefits of scientific research using traditional business-oriented metrics may not be the best tool in our shed, argues Michael White.
Hey Congress, Maybe You Need Some Political Science
A little bit of poli sci learning might be a tonic in Washington. But as Michael Harris points out, some legislators like Dr. Tom Coburn want to restrict funding for their ‘medicine.’
