If you imagine the U.S. research community as a family party, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is your crazy uncle ranting at the end of the table and the government’s other “ARPA” ...

The Government-University-Industry-Philanthropy Research Roundtable hosts monthly webinars on issues of national and international importance in science, technology, and policy. The webinars are free ...

Innovation has always relied, to some degree, on government support. But a recent study suggests that public funding might be even more influential than it seems. “Nearly a third of US patents rely ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...

A 1965 discovery in a Michigan State University laboratory launched a revolution in medicine. Today, the chemotherapy drug cisplatin and related platinum-based compounds save countless lives across a ...

Jay P. Greene was a Senior Research Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy. The federal government provides enormous subsidies to the wealthiest universities in the country.

Government contracts awarded by Air Force Research Lab have since been an effective collaboration between the government and private sectors. The purpose of these research and development programs is ...

After multiple government agencies moved to unilaterally cap indirect research costs—claiming that the current structure allows universities to waste government funds—a coalition of 10 research ...

The Government Department is a national leader in undergraduate research. Our faculty and students collaborate on a wide variety of research projects. Students may choose to pursue an individual ...