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Thomas, Jeena M.; Olson, Steve – National Academies Press, 2023
On September 22, 2022, the National Academy of Sciences held a symposium entitled Endless Frontier 2022: Research and Higher Education Institutions for the Next 75 Years. The event was a follow up to a February 2020 NAS symposium convened to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the landmark report Science, the Endless Frontier. Building on the 2020…
Descriptors: Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Science and Society
Edward Hind – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2014
Citizen science is a relatively young research field. Having 'discovered' it in a conference workshop, I thought it might be the answer to solving a problem I had encountered during my PhD studies -- how to scale-up efforts to record valuable experiential knowledge. I planned to train citizen scientists to conduct qualitative semi-structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Climate, Citizen Participation, Scientific Research
Didion, Catherine Jay; Guenther, Rita S.; Gunderson, Victoria – National Academies Press, 2012
Scientists, engineers, and medical professionals play a vital role in building the 21st- century science and technology enterprises that will create solutions and jobs critical to solving the large, complex, and interdisciplinary problems faced by society: problems in energy, sustainability, the environment, water, food, disease, and healthcare.…
Descriptors: Leadership, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Graduate Students