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Basic Scientific Research And Its Transformational Potential
James M. Gentile | May 02, 2012
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of America’s oldest foundation devoted wholly to science, Research Corporation for Science Advancement. In March, I had the pleasure of celebrating the anniversary at a gala at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, where leaders of the scientific community from across the country had gathered for the occasion. Later that night, I ran into Sir Richard Branson at my hotel and joined him for a drink. It was one of those chance encounters that seemed more than coincidental.
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Updating the Scientific Conference
Richard Wiener | May 02, 2012
Today’s widespread availability of scientific information and new technology for communication has implications for the traditional format of the venerable research conference, long a mainstay of scientific communities, according to RCSA Program Director Richard Wiener. Wiener thinks that with the increasing reach of highly interactive global communication, the conventional method of transferring scientific information through formal talks is becoming less relevant.
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Innovations In Space Technology Are Still Key
James M. Gentile | September 07, 2011 | Huffington Post
It's been a tough summer for space technology -- both for exploring space and for harnessing its resources. Yet innovation in space technology is still key to U.S. scientific and economic preeminence; space has been primarily America's frontier for 50 years and should remain so.
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Collaboration Within Competition Is Key to American Technological Innovation
James M. Gentile | August 17, 2011 | Huffington Post
As Research Corporation for Science Advancement prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary next year (as America's oldest foundation dedicated wholly to science), a look back at its history offers insights for the future of U.S. scientific and technological innovation. One of those insights is that collaboration within competition is a...
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Advancing Technology Through Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
James M. Gentile | May 27, 2011 | Huffington Post
The research of Richard Taylor, published in the May 2011 issue of Physics World, underscores the transformational advances in technology, science, and medicine that are possible through cross-disciplinary collaboration and interaction. Dr. Taylor's title speaks for itself: Professor of Physics, Psychology, and Art at the University of Oregon.
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Modeling the Decline of Religion
February 11, 2011
RCSA Program Officer Richard Wiener will be presenting a talk at the APS March Meeting in Dallas on the dynamics of social group competition applied to the growth of religious non-affiliation.
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Converting Sunlight to Fuel
February 09, 2011 | PBS Video
Renowned solar energy researcher and Caltech Professor Nate Lewis, who chairs RCSA’s Scialog review panel, appears on the PBS NOVA documentary Making Stuff: Cleaner, where he discusses his work developing artificial photosynthesis to convert sunlight into chemical fuels. See chapter 6 of 6: Sun Power
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Arizona Clean Energy
January 07, 2011 | Arizona Public Media
Richard Wiener, RCSA program officer, and Richard Powell, University of Arizona vice president emeritus, recently appeared on the public TV news magazine Arizona Illustrated and published an Arizona Republic Op-Ed discussing sustainable energy for Arizona.
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Green Energy Innovation: Building A National Commitment
James M. Gentile | January 05, 2011 | Huffington Post
Clean energy may well be the next economic revolution, and the United States can be at the forefront, if we take full advantage of our nation's strengths. That will require an extraordinary collaboration between government, the private sector, and the scientific and philanthropic communities. It will also require the support...
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Increase Science Funding to Grow U.S. Jobs
James M. Gentile | December 14, 2010 | Huffington Post
The size of the national debt, combined with public pressure to bring federal spending under control, is creating talk of further cutting science funding -- especially funding for the National Science Foundation -- among other areas of U.S. government activity. But if Americans want jobs, science funding should be increased,...
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Presidential Advisors Call for Energy Innovation Acceleration
December 03, 2010
“A major acceleration is needed in the pace of energy technology innovation, invention, translation, adoption and diffusion,” says the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in a new report.
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Energy Chief Steven Chu Calls for More Innovation
December 01, 2010
The United States is in danger of losing its global technological leadership to China and other rapidly advancing nations, warns U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
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