Inside Higher Ed pointed me today to the “Golden
Goose” awards established by some folks in Congress and in major educational groups as
an antidote to other listings that are made to put research in a bad light. Old timers will remember the Golden Fleece
awards of Senator William Proxmire - back in the day - which made fun of research that seemed
silly. From time to time, such
seemingly-silly research continues to be highlighted by Proxmire’s successors.
Of course, there is silly research and there are silly academics. But not everything that seems silly, or
abstract, or just not easy to understand turns out to be so.
As it turns out, one of the folks on the Golden Goose list
for this year is UCLA’s Nobelist Lloyd Shapely.
See, for example,
A media release on the awards for this
year is at http://www.goldengooseaward.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Golden-Goose-Awards-Ceremony-Honors-Seven-Researchers-9-19-13.pdf.
Another honoree is Adjunct Prof. Hudson
Freeze of UC-SD. See
And
the Inside Higher Ed story is at http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/09/20/scientists-honored-studies-might-once-have-seemed-negligible.
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