The
National Science Foundation’s (NSF) long-standing relationship with the
science and engineering community has always generated a continuous
stream of leading-edge ideas that have produced new discoveries,
inventions and approaches. With input from this community in mind, the
NSF launched an extensive planning exercise to identify ideas for
investment to ensure that future generations will reap the benefits of
fundamental scientific research. France A. Córdova, Ph.D., director of
the NSF, will discuss the “10 Big Ideas” that emerged from this effort,
many of which cut across disciplinary boundaries and require novel
methods and approaches.
This event, part of the Rorschach Lecture Series organized by the Physics and Astronomy Department at Rice University, is sponsored by the Baker Institute Science and Technology Policy Program, in conjunction with Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering and Wiess School of Natural Sciences. Support for the Civic Scientist Program is generously provided by Benjamin and Winifer Cheng. | 
