Science and SocietyScience Policy

2020 marked the 75^th Anniversary of Science, the Endless Frontier, a prescient report from Vannevar Bush that led to the development of the modern American research university, the National Science Foundation, and was the intellectual architecture for higher education, basic research and science, engineering, and medical research in the U.S. In honor of this important milestone, The Kavli Foundation supported a limited series of forums to explore the next 75 years of science policy, including how resources and infrastructure could evolve to support basic research and science overall for generations to come. Working with leaders from academia and scientific institutions, philanthropy and civic science, publishers and more, these efforts sparked critical dialogue and challenged people to think about the long-term vitality of a thriving scientific enterprise. Below are resources from these various endeavors, along with a summary of the foundation’s three-year program (2020-2023).