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The 2024 Golden Goose Award honored seven scientists whose unusual, curiosity-driven, federally underwritten research led to major scientific breakthroughs.

Last week, the Bayh-Dole Coalition, which includes AAU, honored five innovators whose work helped transform early-stage discoveries at research universities into commercial breakthroughs. Four of the five innovators who received the award have connections to AAU schools.
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A new report from the National Academies finds that the United States, unlike other nations that run programs to recruit foreign talent, “does not have a whole-of-government STEM strategy” to help recruit foreign-born students and scientists or retain the talent we already have.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has selected six AAU member universities to develop novel technologies that would help surgeons remove cancerous tumors more effectively and accurately.
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On this week's newsletter, student-athletes from AAU schools head to Paris for the Summer Olympics, 21 AAU faculty named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators; and more.
On this week's newsletter, New Gallup poll survey measures confidence in U.S. higher education, NSF investing millions to build new advanced computing facility at UT Austin; and more.
On this week's newsletter, AAU opposes bills advancing punitive tax policies for universities, and more.
In this week's newsletter, industry leaders urge Congress to increase science funding, House spending bills propose flat funding for key science agencies, cuts for Education Department; and more.
On this week's newsletter, Industry leaders urge Congress to increase science funding, House spending bills propose flat funding for key science agencies, cuts for Education Department; and more.
On this week's newsletter, AAU says College Cost Reduction Act would be counterproductive, lawmakers reintroduce bill to double Pell Grant annual maximum; and more.