Workforce Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/workforce/ The best minds on the most important topics. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:23:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Workforce Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/workforce/ 32 32 Retooling the Definition of the Skilled Technical Workforce https://issues.org/skilled-technical-workforce-siwe-lancaster-mcdonald-montalvo/ https://issues.org/skilled-technical-workforce-siwe-lancaster-mcdonald-montalvo/#respond Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=45577 Why don’t job classification systems recognize what skills today’s occupations really require?

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]]> https://issues.org/skilled-technical-workforce-siwe-lancaster-mcdonald-montalvo/feed/ 0 Nurturing Deeper Ways of Knowing in Science https://issues.org/deeper-ways-knowing-science-carbajo/ https://issues.org/deeper-ways-knowing-science-carbajo/#respond Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:53:47 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44599 Efforts to diversify representation in science and engineering require initiatives that increase diversity of thought as well.

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]]> https://issues.org/deeper-ways-knowing-science-carbajo/feed/ 0 Don’t Rank Research Universities—Compare Them https://issues.org/compare-research-universities-brown/ https://issues.org/compare-research-universities-brown/#respond Wed, 26 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44619 Collectively, US research universities are the envy of the world. But they do make an unusual collection—a complex mix of public and private institutions pursuing different missions supported by a range of… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/compare-research-universities-brown/feed/ 0 Science Policy: No Longer an “Exotic Nice-to-Have Thing” https://issues.org/science-policy-survey-margonelli/ https://issues.org/science-policy-survey-margonelli/#respond Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43627 The community of people who do science policy has long been something of a cipher. In the late 1960s, journalist Dan Greenberg reported that it comprised a “remarkably small number of people”—he… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/science-policy-survey-margonelli/feed/ 0 Rashada Alexander Prepares the Next Generation of Science Policy Leaders https://issues.org/rashada-alexander-aaas-stpf/ https://issues.org/rashada-alexander-aaas-stpf/#respond Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:14:23 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=42970 Since 1973, the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellowship (STPF) has brought thousands of scientists and engineers into the policy world. The fellowship is a… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/rashada-alexander-aaas-stpf/feed/ 0 How Can STEMM Do A Better Job of Caring for Its Caregivers? https://issues.org/supporting-stemm-caregivers-stem-workforce/ https://issues.org/supporting-stemm-caregivers-stem-workforce/#respond Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:42:42 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=42625 Caregiving is a nearly universal human experience, but it’s not often thought of as an issue with implications for our nation’s science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) enterprise. A new report… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/supporting-stemm-caregivers-stem-workforce/feed/ 0 Economists Being Economists https://issues.org/power-progress-acemoglu-johnson-review-sarewitz/ https://issues.org/power-progress-acemoglu-johnson-review-sarewitz/#respond Mon, 25 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=40980 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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]]> https://issues.org/power-progress-acemoglu-johnson-review-sarewitz/feed/ 0 Bring on the Policy Entrepreneurs https://issues.org/policy-entrepreneurs-goldman/ https://issues.org/policy-entrepreneurs-goldman/#respond Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41010 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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]]> https://issues.org/policy-entrepreneurs-goldman/feed/ 0 The Technologist https://issues.org/technologist-advanced-manufacturing-workforce-liu-bonvillian/ https://issues.org/technologist-advanced-manufacturing-workforce-liu-bonvillian/#respond Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:14:03 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=41013 Soon after completing a master’s program in advanced manufacturing and design, Neha was hired as a process engineer at a semiconductor wafer-cutting plant. Not long after starting, she realized multiple processes at… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/technologist-advanced-manufacturing-workforce-liu-bonvillian/feed/ 0 Inviting Millions Into the Era of Quantum Technologies https://issues.org/quantum-technologies-workforce-dudley-brazil/ https://issues.org/quantum-technologies-workforce-dudley-brazil/#respond Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=40296 Quantum technologies involving sensing, networking, and computing are beginning to transform areas as diverse as health, geology, astrophysics, materials science, and finance. Building on decades of work in theoretical and experimental quantum… Read More

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