The New York Times recently launched a crowdsourcing initiative to see how people would choose to balance the federal budget. The Times gave people the option to pick and choose from a collection of budget cutting measures that had been proposed by various committees and think tanks: The Simpson/Bowles deficit comm... read more

Peter and I have just returned from "Evolving Demands in Graduate Education, Training and Career Development for Future STEM Professionals," a workshop hosted by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The meeting was in some ways a testament to the potential of young scientists and engineers t... read more

America COMPETES, the NSF reauthorization bill, has been signed into law, and the bill contains a lot of good stuff. Many of the provisions I wrote about earlier have survived the conference committee and made it through to the final bill: * Postdoc training: The postdoc mentoring provision is more or less uncha... read more