Research/Social Impact Links
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Article title: “Why Scientists Need to Learn How to Share”
Despite ethical fears over work being co-opted, the benefits of scientific cooperation are too big to keep avoiding.
Article title: “Innovation Must Get in Line for Academic Funding”
In a Q&A session, computer scientist Francine Berman, vice president for research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, explains how funding decisions made in Washington help or hinder innovation at universities.
Presenting Conclusions from Research
Article title: “Voter ID Dampens, Yes, But Does It Work?”
More research suggests that voter ID laws depress voter turnout among minority populations and the elderly, although the authors conclude in their study of Georgia's decade-old (but recently tweaked) law that social scientists really need to look at voter fraud and whether voter ID works.