As early-career scientists and engineers working at the intersection of science and society, we represent the next generation of leaders in science policy. Over the past four years, we have helped ...

Trump is far from the first president to be deeply skeptical of the academic research community. But his second-term actions have set a new precedent.

The need has never been greater for individuals who can address increasingly complex environmental issues. The Environmental Science and Policy (ES&P) Program seeks to produce future leaders with ...

As science plays an ever increasing role in policy decisions, the Committee on Preparing the Next Generation of Policy Makers for Science-Based Decisions, an ad hoc committee under the auspices of the ...

An instrumentalist understanding of science has become dominant in American political discourse in recent decades, making science policy harder to distinguish from industrial policy. Yet crafting ...

The administrative structure for the funding of science and technology in Japan is now going through a marked change. The newly formed Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP) has been given ...

These days, people who have a science background and an ability to innovate to solve key societal problems are in high demand. At UAB, our Graduate Certificate in Science Policy can prepare you for a ...

The Interior Department has resurrected an “open science” policy that echoes a much-criticized approach in place during the first Trump administration. In a new secretary’s order signed Aug. 29 but ...

U.S. Energy Policy must be guided by two intertwined goals: guaranteeing the security of the nation's energy supply and limiting runaway climate change. A tax on the carbon dioxide emissions of fuels ...

Gerald Kauffman Water supply, water quality, policy, droughts and floods; watershed planning and management. Delphis Levia Ecohydrology, forest biogeochemistry, snow science, field methods and ...