A Great Friendship: The Evolution of the Government-University Science Partnership in the United States

Join us for May Ethics Grand Rounds on the history of federal funding of university-based research in the U.S. featuring Jonathan Engel, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Health Policy and Management, and moderated by Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD, Chief of the Division of Ethics.

Abstract: The United States developed relationships with its research universities during World War II which produced the Manhattan Project (U. of California) and the Rad Lab (MIT), among others. In the years after the war, these relationships were enhanced and enlarged through the creation of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Office of Naval Research, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation. These government-university relationships have been enormously fruitful for a variety of reasons. In this Grand Rounds, we will explore the unusual nature of these relationships and discuss the future of science funding in the United States.