Immigration Policy Archives | Issues in Science and Technology http://issues.org/issue/31-1/ The best minds on the most important topics. Tue, 08 Oct 2024 23:50:39 +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 Immigration Policy Archives | Issues in Science and Technology http://issues.org/issue/31-1/ 32 32 Forum – Fall 2014 https://issues.org/forum-25/ https://issues.org/forum-25/#respond Wed, 01 Oct 2014 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=12130 Climate deadlock
In “Breaking the Climate Deadlock” (Issues, Summer 2014), David Garman, Kerry Emanuel, and Bruce Phillips present a thoughtful proposal for greatly expanded public- and private-sector R&D aimed at… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/forum-25/feed/ 0 From the Hill – Fall 2014 https://issues.org/from-the-hill-2/ https://issues.org/from-the-hill-2/#respond Wed, 01 Oct 2014 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=12137 Budget discussions inch forward
Congress returned to Washington in September to do a little business before heading home to campaign. As usual at this time of year, there’s still quite a bit… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/from-the-hill-2/feed/ 0 Science: Too Big for Its Britches? https://issues.org/editors-journal-science-too-big-for-its-britches/ https://issues.org/editors-journal-science-too-big-for-its-britches/#respond Wed, 01 Oct 2014 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=12143 Science ain’t what it used to be, except perhaps in the systems we have for managing it. The changes taking place are widely recognized. The enterprise is becoming larger and more international,… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/editors-journal-science-too-big-for-its-britches/feed/ 0 The True Grand Challenge for Engineering: Self-Knowledge https://issues.org/perspectives-the-true-grand-challenge-for-engineering-self-knowledge/ https://issues.org/perspectives-the-true-grand-challenge-for-engineering-self-knowledge/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2014 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=12145 In 2003, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) published A Century of Innovation celebrating “20 engineering achievements that transformed our lives” across the 20th century, from automobiles to the Internet. Five years… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/perspectives-the-true-grand-challenge-for-engineering-self-knowledge/feed/ 2 Retire to Boost Research Productivity! https://issues.org/perspectives-retire-to-boost-research-productivity/ https://issues.org/perspectives-retire-to-boost-research-productivity/#respond Wed, 01 Oct 2014 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=12149 University leaders confront multiple challenges with an aging faculty. Writing in Inside Higher Ed in 2011, longtime education reporter Dan Berrett spotlighted the “Gray Wave” of a growing number of faculty members… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/perspectives-retire-to-boost-research-productivity/feed/ 0 21st Century Inequality: The Declining Significance of Discrimination https://issues.org/21st-century-inequality-the-declining-significance-of-discrimination/ https://issues.org/21st-century-inequality-the-declining-significance-of-discrimination/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2014 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=12152 Today I want to talk about inequality in the 21st century, in particular on the decline in the significance of discrimination and the increase in the significance of human capital.

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]]> https://issues.org/21st-century-inequality-the-declining-significance-of-discrimination/feed/ 2 No Time for Pessimism about Electric Cars https://issues.org/no-time-for-pessimism-about-electric-cars/ https://issues.org/no-time-for-pessimism-about-electric-cars/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2014 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=12154 The national push to adopt electric cars should be sustained until at least 2017, when a review of fed auto policies is scheduled.
A distinctive feature of U.S. energy and environmental policy… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/no-time-for-pessimism-about-electric-cars/feed/ 1 Military Innovation and the Prospects for Defense-Led Energy Innovation https://issues.org/military-innovation-and-the-prospects-for-defense-led-energy-innovation/ https://issues.org/military-innovation-and-the-prospects-for-defense-led-energy-innovation/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2014 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=12158 EUGENE GHOLZ
Although the Department of Defense has long been the global innovation leader in military hardware, that capability is not easily applied to energy technology
Almost all plans to address climate… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/military-innovation-and-the-prospects-for-defense-led-energy-innovation/feed/ 1 Streamlining the Visa and Immigration Systems for Scientists and Engineers https://issues.org/streamlining-the-visa-and-immigration-systems-for-scientists-and-engineers/ https://issues.org/streamlining-the-visa-and-immigration-systems-for-scientists-and-engineers/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2014 04:00:00 +0000 http://issues.org/?p=12166 Alena Shkumatava leads a research group at the Curie Institute in Paris studying how an unusual class of genetic material called noncoding RNA affects embryonic development, using zebrafish as a model system.… Read More

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“Geohistory is the immensely long and complex history of the earth, including the life on its surface (biohistory), as distinct from… Read More

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