By Claudia Neuhauser, PhD, Vice President for Research, Professor of Mathematics, University of Houston; Brian Herman, PhD, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and former Vice

Originally published on June 08, 2017  /// Academic institutions make investment decisions every day, often in response to strategic planning processes intended to set new

Originally published on November 28, 2023 on Medium   ///   Admittedly, we were all impressed when ChatGPT arrived on the scene in November 2022.

Originally published on November 28, 2023 on Medium   ///   ChatGPT made its debut in November 2022. It took about a month before it

Originally published on November 28, 2023 on Medium   ///   Whether we like it or not or want it or not, ChatGPT, LLMs, and

Originally published on June 29, 2022 on Medium   ///   In his book Moral Freedom, Alan Wolfe suggests that “[m]oral freedom means that individuals

Originally published on January 12, 2022 on Medium   ///   In a recent editorial of the NY Times, David Brooks wrote that we live

Originally published on December 10, 2021 in The Big Idea, University of Houston   ///   The Proposed 2022 White House Budget- Is More Money

Originally published on July 28, 2021 on Medium /// Whoever said “[t]he definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and

Originally published on June 9, 2021 on Medium   ///   We read several newspapers every morning. Like many other people, we get notifications in

Originally published on June 8, 2021 on Medium   ///   The National Intelligence Council warned in the recent Global Trends 2040 report that societies

Originally published on April 19, 2021 on Medium   ///   Expectations are high that we will be able to return to normal in a

Originally published on October 12, 2020 on Medium   ///   We heard the good news. Two (or perhaps three) vaccines that appear to be

Originally published on August 22, 2020 on Medium   ///   With school starting in the US and the pandemic far from being under control, we

Originally published on June 15, 2020   ///   The coronavirus pandemic hit, well, not exactly without warning, but not with a whole lot of

Originally published on April 27, 2020 /// A little over a month ago, Universities across the world rapidly ramped down their research as Stay Home

Originally published on February 12, 2020 /// For years, we kept hearing about the need to increase the percentage of students who complete college to

Originally published on February 02, 2020   ///   To say that we live in exciting times would be an understatement. As Steve Pinker recently

Originally published on December 9, 2019 /// Free exchange of ideas created a global community of scholars We have enjoyed and benefited from decades of

Originally published on October 21, 2019 /// SOFT SKILLS—WE HAVE HEARD IT BEFORE With cooler weather across much of the nation, opinions about higher education

Originally published on September 12, 2019   ///   The size of the US workforce is not keeping up with the demand. For over a

Originally published on July 16, 2019 /// LANDING ON THE MOON Fifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, two Americans became the first humans ever

Originally published on May 30, 2019 /// For years, U.S. research universities have benefited enormously from an open research environment that welcomed international students and

Originally published on March 17, 2019   ///   American country music artist Jason Aldean sings in “Fly over States” about two men flying first

Originally published on December 13, 2018   ///   Our country is increasingly divided along political, economic, geographic, racial and educational status. Much has been

Originally published on November 22, 2017 /// Leading change in organizations is one of the most important competencies of leadership, but is often an activity

Originally published on October 18, 2018 /// The public acceptance of research findings is built on trust. Anything that undermines that trust plays into the

Originally published on April 19, 2018 /// The recommendation on the computer screen reads “Release not recommended.” The judge briefly looks at the current charges

Originally published on October 31, 2017   ///   High-throughput data acquisition in the sciences is now outsourced most frequently to core research facilities, where

Originally published on October 14, 2016   ///   The United States is at a crossroads with respect to many societal issues – think about

Originally published on August 09, 2016 /// The University of Minnesota is a research university dedicated to the advancement of knowledge. Our research enterprise is

Originally published on March 30, 2015 /// President Obama’s proposed Precision Medicine Initiative promises unprecedented support for the rapidly growing field of genome-based medical therapies.

Originally published on March 2, 2015 /// Biomedical researchers are training in healthy numbers, but many are finding that the transition from their first post-doctoral position

Originally published on January 26, 2015 /// The biomedical research we rely on for advances in medicine, whether it be vaccines or cures for life-threatening

Originally published on December 3, 2014 /// When the new Congress is sworn in come January, it should add two important items for the agenda

Originally published on October 24, 2014 /// Nothing focuses the mind like a crisis. For several years, many of us in the scientific research establishment

Originally published on October 6, 2014 /// Scientists won’t solve the world’s most pressing problems – world hunger, poor healthcare in the developing world, the

Originally published on September 12, 2014 /// Scientists have a trust problem. They are viewed askance by lawmakers and workaday Americans, according to recent polls.  

Originally published on July 28, 2014 /// Lobbyists, car salespeople, reporters and members of Congress – all are viewed, rightly or wrongly, as untrustworthy professions.

Originally published on June 11, 2014 /// The world’s best research could be enhanced if academic institutions would change their approach to how they incentivize

Originally published on May 6, 2014  ///  Minnesota is home to some of the most innovative independent inventors, university researchers and corporate scientists in the

Originally published on April 22, 2014 /// Federal government spending on research is under threat due to sweeping budgetary pressures, and corporate spending on R&D