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Obama administration's big science and tech innovation: Socially engaged policy

  • Written by Shobita Parthasarathy, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
imageObama annually welcomed students to the White House with their Science Fair projects.AP Photo/Susan Walsh

When President Barack Obama gave his inaugural address in 2009, he promised to “restore science to its rightful place and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost.” For the previous...

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