There's a reason research matters. It creates technologies, medicines and other answers to the biggest challenges we face.
There is a longstanding agreement between the U.S. government and America’s universities to conduct research on behalf of the country. That research touches your life in numerous ways every day, from the roads you drive on to the phone in your pocket. In the video below, ASU President Michael Crow talks about the "invisible hand" of university researchers.
But that agreement between the U.S. government and university researchers — and all the economic and societal benefits that come from such research — has recently been put at risk.