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Originally published on September 12, 2019   ///   The size of the US workforce is not keeping up with the demand. For over a year now, the number of job openings has exceeded the number of people available to be hired. Slower population growth and an aging workforce will further hamper the growth of […]

Originally published on July 16, 2019 /// LANDING ON THE MOON Fifty years ago, on July 20, 1969, two Americans became the first humans ever to walk on the moon. It was America’s response to establishing technological superiority over Russia after the Soviet Union sent Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961, the first human, into

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 scholars. The benefits are now overshadowed by the fear of foreign nationals stealing intellectual property and compromising national security. And China is the primary target[i].   China has made no

Originally published on March 17, 2019   ///   American country music artist Jason Aldean sings in “Fly over States” about two men flying first class from New York to Los Angeles and wondering who would want to live in the sparsely populated Midwestern region below them, “[j]ust a bunch of square cornfields and wheat

Originally published on December 13, 2018   ///   Our country is increasingly divided along political, economic, geographic, racial and educational status. Much has been written about the causes of this reality. An economic transformation has shifted the engine of value creation from a territorially spread-out system of labor-intensive industrial production to more agglomerated activity

Originally published on November 22, 2017 /// Leading change in organizations is one of the most important competencies of leadership, but is often an activity filled with frustration and disappointment. The literature contains a plethora of advice on how to successfully manage change in organizations. However, it often fails for very specific reasons. At HSNA,

Originally published on October 18, 2018 /// The public acceptance of research findings is built on trust. Anything that undermines that trust plays into the hands of those who want to discredit academic research and scholarship, ranging from climate change to gender studies, some for political reasons. Some even go as far as trying to

Originally published on April 19, 2018 /// The recommendation on the computer screen reads “Release not recommended.” The judge briefly looks at the current charges and the predicted scores for new criminal activity and failure to appear. All three support the recommendation, which she decides to follow, likely with only a scant, if any, knowledge

Originally published on October 31, 2017   ///   High-throughput data acquisition in the sciences is now outsourced most frequently to core research facilities, where highly skilled technicians work increasingly side by side with robots to churn out very high volumes of data. These core facilities are specialized on a specific type of data, for

Originally published on October 14, 2016   ///   The United States is at a crossroads with respect to many societal issues – think about the challenges of improving human health, eradicating hunger, protecting human rights. At the same time, federal support for higher education research and development – a primary venue to generate innovative