Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Global Competitivensss
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Research, Education, Engagement and Bovine Transport
Research universities have three critical, irreducible functions: knowledge creation, education, and engagement. Each sustains the others.
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Scholarship and Human Progress
By its nature, research is a long game, for basic research and scholarship expand the collective body of human knowledge.
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Quantifying Innovation and Investment
According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), federal funding for research, development, and facilities has declined from 1.23 percent of gross domestic product in fiscal year 1976 to an estimated 0.75 percent in the President’s proposed 2015 budget.
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Iowa and the Digital Lab for Manufacturing
Yesterday, I had the privilege to be at the White House as President Obama announced the Digital Lab for Manufacturing (the Digital Lab), which includes the University of Iowa and a host of national partners.
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Economics and University Partnerships
The Iowa City Press Citizen recently published an opinion piece that was a précis of my recent Iowa City Chamber of Commerce after dinner speech.
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Deferred Maintenance on the Future
Over-worked and sleep-deprived researchers are steering many of our vehicles of discovery on balding tires across potholed roads. Put more bluntly, we are struggling to sustain appropriate investments in basic research.