Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Science Policy
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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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Mapping Terra Incognita: An Iowa Perspective
Research, scholarship and creative expression — they define us as humans and as scholars.
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What I’m Reading: ‘Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future’
When did our utopian dreams stagger into an alleyway, drunk on hubris, only to be mugged by our diminished expectations?
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Transforming Lives via Public Higher Education
Education at a public research university provides so much more than the opportunity to leap economic barriers.We share our passion for the world of ideas, create new knowledge, transfer insights to a new generation, and unlock waking dreams of the future,
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Research, Politics and Policy
Technical knowledge matters, but communication, empathy,and compromise are equally crucial and sometimes more important.
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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.