Monique Verdin, "Headwaters : Tamaracks + Time : Lake Itasca" (2019), digital assemblage. Photograph taken in 2019; United States War Department map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country in 1832 to the source of the Mississippi River.

Education

The US system of higher education confronts a range of complex and systemic problems that compromise its ability to serve many of its students and society more broadly. The essays here not only identify many of these challenges, but also offer concrete ways to better educate and train the next generation of science and technology leaders.