Deepening Engagement | Winter 2024

What the Energy Transition Means for Jobs

Issues — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In “When the Energy Transition Comes to Town” (Issues, Fall 2023), Jillian E. Miles, Christophe Combemale, and Valerie J. Karplus highlight critical challenges to transitioning US fossil fuel workers to… Read More

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A Focus on Diffusion Capacity

Issues — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In “No, We Don’t Need Another ARPA” (Issues, Fall 2023), John Paschkewitz and Dan Patt argue that the current US innovation ecosystem does not lack for use-inspired research organizations and… Read More

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Embracing Intelligible Failure

Issues — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:32:58 +0000

In “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Intelligible Failure” (Issues, Fall 2023), Adam Russell asks the important and provocative questions: With the growth of “ARPA-everything,” what makes the… Read More

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FLOE: A Climate of Risk

Issues — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000

STEPHEN TALASNIK, Glacial Mapping 2023; Digitally printed vinyl wall print, 10’ x 14’ (h x w)

Imagination can be a fundamental tool for driving change. Through creative narratives, we can individually… Read More

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Economists Being Economists

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In early nineteenth-century England, bands of men known as Luddites went about smashing the automatic knitting machines that had taken their jobs. The novelist Thomas Pynchon described the situation in a 1984… Read More

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AI-Assisted Biodesign

Issues — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000

AMY KARLE, BioAI Mycelium Grown Into the Form of Insulators, 2023

Amy Karle is a contemporary artist who uses artificial intelligence as both a medium and a subject in her work.… Read More

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Rethinking Engineering Education

Issues — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000

We applaud Idalis Villanueva Alarcón’s essay, “How to Build Engineers for Life” (Issues, Fall 2023). As the leaders of an organization that has for 36 years sought to inspire, support,… Read More

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Bring on the Policy Entrepreneurs

Jay Lloyd — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the scientific literature worldwide was flooded with research articles, letters, reviews, notes, and editorials related to the virus. One study estimates that a… Read More

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Stories and Basic Science Collide

Jay Lloyd — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Short story collections with multiple authors are a curious act. Each story is like a distinct performer given a moment to shine on a shared cabaret stage. But the true test of… Read More

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Making Graduate Fellowships More Inclusive

Issues — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000

In “Fifty Years of Strategies for Equal Access to Graduate Fellowships” (Issues, Fall 2023), Gisèle Muller-Parker and Jason Bourke suggest that examining the National Science Foundation’s efforts to increase the… Read More

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