Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: research
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Academia: Who We Are and Why It Matters
Society has vouchsafed in us an extraordinary privilege and sacred trust, as scholarly stewards and explorers.
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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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Research: When There Are No Answers in the Back of the Book
Research is about the unknown. There are no answers in the back of the textbook, for there is no textbook
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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.
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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.