The ability to accelerate bringing these facilities online was underpinned by integrating targeted science with applied technology.
The program, meant to "inspire innovators of tomorrow," targets science, math, engineering, and technology students in their last year of high school.
More efforts in the science education community and by funding agencies should be directed at implementing evidence-based, short-term intervention programs to target science teachers rather than conducting and funding additional studies of teacher ambivalence towards evolutionary science.
Relative to other countries, the United States has some areas to target: science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), all of which are closely connected to how successful the U.S. will be globally.
"We are targeting our science toward benefits and, for each of these benefits, we develop a research program".
But now, under pressure from Congress, some federal agencies have quietly picked a new target: science.
Rather than being driven by the search for new drug targets, science was often focused on solving fairly abstract questions.
One such idea is to reprogram education spending to better target science and engineering — areas where the next generation of jobs is likely to emerge.
Target science ranges from conventional solid-state physics, such as highly correlated electron systems, frustrated magnets and relaxors, to rather interdisciplinary areas, exemplified by glasses, quasicrystals, polymers and liquids.
