06/2023
Robert Streubel visits D.C. to experience science outside the lab
Have you ever wondered how science, money, and interests influence far-reaching decisions and policies and affect everyday life and our future? The Science outside the lab is an excellent opportunity to experience this first-hand in Washington, D.C. Robert and twelve other university faculty from across the United States visited the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, Senate staffer, and SRI International to talk about these matters and how science graduate students can become part of this machinery. The breadth and pace at which scientific data needs to be acquired, digested, analyzed, and articulated to inform science policy, national security, and intellectual properties is amazing.
The three-day workshop was organized by the Arizona State University and is the first faculty-oriented Science outside the lab. It built on twenty years of experience, success, and networks of the graduate-student-centered programs which have been supported by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure and the National Science Foundation.
More information about Science outside the lab can be found here.
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