Events

  • Special Series - Open to the Public

    Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Book Launch

    Wed., Oct. 26, 2016 | 4:30pm - 6:15pm

    Tracing the history of the problematic "basic" and "applied" categories, Cycles of Invention and Discovery: Rethinking the Endless Frontier documents how historical views of policymakers and scientists have led to the construction of science as a pure ideal on the one hand and of engineering as a practical (and inherently less prestigious) activity on the other