Author: Policy and Global Affairs

In an increasingly interconnected world, perhaps it should come as no surprise that international collaboration in science and technology research ...

There are over 20 million young people of color in the United States whose representation in STEM education pathways and in the STEM workforce is s...

The U.S. population is more than 80 percent urban. Recognizing that many metropolitan areas in the United States have been experimenting with vario...

Responding to the challenges of fostering regional growth and employment in an increasingly competitive global economy, many U.S. states and region...

Intangible assetswhich include computer software, research and development (R&D), intellectual property, workforce training, and spending to ra...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has played a key role over the past several decades in advancing understanding of Earth's systems by funding ...

As ballistic missile technology proliferates, and as ballistic missile defenses are deployed by both the Russian Federation and the United States, ...

The United States and India have pledged to deepen the linkages between their people, their businesses, and their governments for the mutual benefi...

Women in the United States and Kuwait have made advances as researchers and leaders in science, engineering, and medical disciplines, yet challenge...

Flooding is the natural hazard with the greatest economic and social impact in the United States, and these impacts are becoming more severe over t...

Research and innovation in the life sciences is driving rapid growth in agriculture, biomedical science, information science and computing, energy,...

The frequency and severity of disasters over the last few decades have presented unprecedented challenges for communities across the United States....

Openness and sharing of information are fundamental to the progress of science and to the effective functioning of the research enterprise. The adv...

In the United States, broad study in an array of different disciplines arts, humanities, science, mathematics, engineering as well as an in-depth s...

Resilient supply chains are crucial to maintaining the consistent delivery of goods and services to the American people. The modern economy has mad...

In November 2018, National Academy of Sciences (NAS) President Marcia McNutt visited China for the first time in her official role. As part of this...

Technological advances in noninvasive neuroimaging, neurophysiology, genome sequencing, and other methods together with rapid progress in computati...

Biomedical research data sets are becoming larger and more complex, and computing capabilities are expanding to enable transformative scientific re...

Steps Toward Large-Scale Data Integration in the Sciences summarizes a National Research Council (NRC) workshop to identify some of the major chall...

The effective use of data science - the science and technology of extracting value from data - improves, enhances, and strengthens acquisition deci...

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other minority institutions (MIs) represent a valuable resource to expand the Department o...

Teachers play a critical role in the success of their students, both academically and in regard to long term outcomes such as higher education part...

Family caregiving is not simply an outside obligation that has no bearing on the workings of academic science, technology, engineering, mathematics...

The 2012 National Research Council report Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative highlighted the challenges of increasing national resilience i...

The National Research Council's Science and Technology for Sustainability Program hosted two workshops in 2011 addressing the sustainability challe...

Research Universities and the Future of America presents critically important strategies for ensuring that our nation's research universities contr...

In its current strategic plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) describes a cross-agency strategy to advance sustainable environmenta...

Most of the policy discussion about stimulating innovation has focused on the federal level. This study focuses on the significant activity at the ...

On July 15-17, 2012 the United States National Commission on Mathematics Instruction and Seoul National University held a joint Korea-U.S. workshop...

Students, parents, and government agencies need as much information as possible about the outcomes of the higher education experience and the exten...

In 2005, the National Research Council report Rising Above the Gathering Storm recommended a new way for the federal government to spur technologic...

The homeland security mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is paradoxical: Its mission space is uniquely focused on the domestic co...

The growing use of nuclear medicine, the potential expansion of nuclear power generation, and the urgent needs to protect the nation against extern...

The potential misuse of advances in life sciences research is raising concerns about national security threats. Dual Use Research of Concern in the...

The Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Third Edition, assists judges in managing cases involving complex scientific and technical evidence by...

During July 10-13, 2011, 68 participants from 32 countries gathered in Istanbul, Turkey for a workshop organized by the United States National Rese...