Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Education Policy
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Undergraduate Research and Scholarship
What motivates us to discover, to explore new frontiers? What unbroken causal chain connects a child’s boundless curiosity to the focused, but equally insatiable questioning of a trained researcher at the peak of their intellectual prowess?
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The Endless Frontier and the National Science Board
I am pleased that I am being appointed to the National Science Board, where I hope to help the NSF continue to support and sustain scholars – young and old – and to advance scientific research and ensure national competitiveness.
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Libraries: Arms Too Short to Feed the Mind
Books are still the best way to upload new ideas into the wetware of willing minds.
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The Hopes of Parents and the Dreams of Children
Education pays bountiful dividends. The nurtured dreams of our children are our most precious asset.
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The Utility of Uselessness: Freeing Minds
Abraham Flexner: A poem, a symphony, a painting, a mathematical truth, a new scientific fact, all bear in themselves all the justification that universities, colleges, and institutes of research need or require.
