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Episode 016: Rules of Life

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Interviewer(s)

Art Woods, Marty Martin

Interviewee(s)

Joanne Tornow, Arthur “Skip” Lupia

Description

What role does one part of the federal government, the National Science Foundation, play in biological research in the US? How will their new funding initiative help us discover Rules of Life?

On this episode, Art and Marty talk with two NSF directors, Joanne Tornow . the head of the Biological Sciences directorate, and Arthur “Skip” Lupia , the head of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Science directorate.

They talked with them about one of NSF’s Big Ideas. One Idea, called Rules of Life, challenges scientists to study some of the same ‘big’ questions that we’ve addressed on this podcast, including how genotypes become phenotypes. They also asked how an agency dedicated to advancing science operates within an executive branch that has publicly criticized some major scientific conclusions.

Date Published

2019

Language

eng

Run Time

36 minutes, 26 seconds

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audio/mp3

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Podcast

Episode 016: Rules of Life

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