Since the end of the Cold War, profound changes have begun to occur in US government funding of science. Science and Public Policy is a critical thinking course offered at the University of Colorado, in which twentieth century trends in public support of science are traced from the beginning of the century to the present. The influence of world politics and war on the funding of US science emerges as a dominant theme. Particular topics studied include the development of atomic energy for military and peaceful uses, the moon race, the US space program and its impact, the rise of environmental sciences, the development of the Internet, and the demise of the superconducting supercollider.
Most of these themes are covered in our two principal textbooks, "The Physicists," by Daniel Kevles (Harvard Univ Press, 1995) and "Mapping the Next Millenium," by Stephen Hall (Vintage Books, 1993)
This Website includes Internet "Bookmarks" and images supporting these textbooks as well as a student essay summarizing the dominant themes in science and public policy over this century.
reading on the subject:
The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America
by Daniel J. KevlesISBN: 0674666569
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Pub. Date: January 1995
Photo references from this book can be found here.
An essay on the subject from a student in the Science & Public Policy course:
"Trends in Science Past and Future" by Kristin Stahara
History of Science and Public Policy
Nobel Laureates in Physics 1901-1995
Several history of science photo archives at:
Government-Sponsored Projects
NASA Resources The NASA Homepage
NASA's Budget
NASA NRA Space Physics
NASA/Ames Educational Resources
SEDS Students/Space
Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazard
European "Landsat" Company
Human Spaceflight (ISS, Shuttle, etc)
Arecibo
Science Policy Archives (AIP)
AAAS Scien's Science Policy Guide
Soros Grants
NASA Missions Mars
Mars Pathfinder Mission
Past Missions to Mars
Mars Photo Gallery
Spaceviews Mars Pathfinder
Jet Propulsion Lab's Future Mars Missions
Lunar and Planetary Lab Imager
Passport to Knowledge Mars Mission
Mars Today Poster of Current ConditionsOther NASA Missions
JPL Voyager Project
MIT Voyager
Basics of Space Flight Contents
What is imaging radar ?/jpl
NAVY GEOSAT
Earth's Interior /Ritzwoller
IRIS Homepage
Graphics/Dziewonski
Government Medical/Biophysics Projects Medical imaging
Visible Human Project (MD)
Center for Human Sim. (CU)RFLPs and Genes
RFLP Bruns Lab
RFLP Lab for DNA Typing
Human Genome ProjectDNA and Protein
Rattlesnakes, Red Herring, and Cancer
Crystallography
Biomolecules
Molecular Biology/ Medicine
Visible Human Project (MD)
Center for Human Sim. (CU)
Frog Dissection
Molecular Graphics
Human Genome Project
Virus Visualizations
Science Policy Science Policy Archives (AIP)
US Nanotechnology Initiative
NASA's Science Policy Guide
AAAS Science & Policy
APS Forum Physics & Society
Government Agencies Central Intelligence Agency
|Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States Intelligence Community
Environmental Protection Agency
Advanced Research Projects Agency
Federal Communications Commission
Science & Public Education
K-12
General Public Physics 2000: An Interactive Journey Through Modern Physics
Research Universities
National Defense
