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May 5, 2026
Kumar Garg Funds Ideas That Are “Big, if True”
Kumar Garg, president of Renaissance Philanthropy, shares how he has spent his career finding, funding, and implementing ideas both within the government and outside it via philanthropy, which is uniquely positioned to pilot “big, if true” ideas. -
May 21, 2024
A Human Rights Framework for AI Research Worthy of Public Trust
In 2014, researchers at Cornell University and Facebook joined forces for an experiment. They wanted to find out whether emotional contagion occurs on social media—whether the expressions of emotion showing up in… Read More -
Winter 2020
How Academic Science Gave Its Soul to the Publishing Industry
STEF at 75 America’s globally preeminent university research enterprise is constructed on two bedrock principles of self-governance. The first is autonomy: academic scientists should be left free to determine their own research… Read More -
May 16, 2023
Episode 31: Race, Genetics, and a “Most Dangerous Myth”
The concept of distinct races came from European naturalists in the 1700s. It’s now recognized as a social construct, rather than a biological classification. Nonetheless, genetics researchers sometimes use race or ethnicity to… Read More -
June 13, 2023
Federal Research Funding: Is There a Fairer Way to Share the Pie?
Fewer than 7% of research-active institutions receive more than half of all federal funds for university research and development. Recently, multiple efforts have attempted to spread federal research funding more evenly, with … Read More -
Summer 2022
Architectures of Participation
Silicon Valley’s dynamism during the final three decades of the twentieth century highlighted the singular importance of social and professional networks to innovation. Since that time, contemporary and historical case studies have corroborated the link between networks… Read More