Talk:Engineering the Future

From Rodman Scholars Program

Proposed Questions:

[edit] February Lecture

• What problem is the most threatening to our nation in the near future? b) How would you solve the other speaker's problem?

• What is politics' role in scientific progress?

• How can your field benefit from collaboration with the other speaker's field?

• To what extent does do students in your field need to know about advances/work in the other speaker's field?

• How does political-scientific interaction differ internationally?

• How might the Obama administration impact scientific/technological industries?

• What role will technological advance have in pulling the United States out of this crisis?

• What creative policy measures can be used to spur scientific and technological innovation?

• You have $100 billion. Spend it (not in your lab, Prof. Guilford).

• What technological / political actions will be most beneficial to a developing nation?

• What measures can we take to increase access to healthcare innovations in developing nations?

• What can we do to lessen the healthcare gap in Charlottesville?

• Have there been any notable successful collaborations between researchers and policymakers in Charlottesville or Virginia?

• How does responsibility fall between the scientific community and policy makers for ethical use of technological advances? b)and how should it?