The Future of US Science and Technology With Arati Prabhakar

Artificial intelligence and the internet, cancer cures and vaccines, as well as clean water and clean energy all have one thing in common: They are the result of the American people’s bipartisan support for publicly funded research and development (R&D) over the past eight decades. Today, however, the country’s public research foundations that enable these major advances are facing substantial risk.

Join Arati Prabhakar, former director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and science and technology advisor to President Joe Biden, for a candid conversation about the U.S.’ federally funded R&D that has been internationally recognized and respected, its currently vulnerable state, and the steps needed to build a fortified American research enterprise for the future.

The lecture is part of the Baker Institute Civic Scientist Lecture Series, sponsored by Virginia Clark with additional support from Benjamin and Winifer Cheng, Rice University’s George R. Brown School of Engineering and Wiess School of Natural Sciences. Lunch will be provided.

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