National Science Board Statement on Global Research and Development (R&D) Investments NSB-2018-9
February 7, 2018
If current trends continue, the National Science Board expects China to pass the United States in R&D investments by the end of this year.
Maria T. Zuber, Chair, Vice President for Research and E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Diane L. Souvaine, Vice Chair, Senior Advisor to the Provost and Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts John L. Anderson, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago Deborah L. Ball, William H. William H. Payne Collegiate Professor of Education and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Roger N. Beachy, Professor Emeritus of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Arthur Bienenstock, Professor Emeritus of Photon Science, Stanford University, California Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Vicki L. Chandler, Dean of Natural Sciences, Minerva Schools at KGI, San Francisco, California Ruth A. David, President and Chief Executive Officer, Analytic Services, Inc. (Retired) W. Kent Fuchs, President, University of Florida, Gainesville Inez Fung, Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of California, Berkeley Robert M. Groves, Provost and Executive Vice President; Gerard J. Campbell, S.J. Professor in the Math and Statistics Department and Professor in the Sociology Department, Georgetown University, District of Columbia G. Peter Lepage, Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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James S. Jackson, Daniel Katz Distinguished University Professor of Psychology, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Director and Research Professor, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor W. Carl Lineberger, E.U. Condon Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Fellow of JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder Stephen L. Mayo, Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry and William K. Bowes Jr. Leadership Chair in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Victor R. McCrary, Vice President for Research and Economic Development, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland Emilio F. Moran, John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing Ellen Ochoa, Director, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas Sethuraman Panchanathan, Executive Vice President and Chief Research and Innovation Officer of Knowledge Enterprise Development and Director of the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing, Arizona State University, Tempe G.P. "Bud" Peterson, President, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Julia M. Phillips, Executive Emeritus, Sandia National Laboratories Geraldine L. Richmond, Presidential Chair in Science and Professor of Chemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene Anneila I. Sargent, Ira S. Bowen Professor of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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