A new call to abolish the concept of “applied research” comes from a surprising source: the founding dean of Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). Before ...

Academic research has interested me for most of my life. I was always fascinated by how people come to know, how they sift through information, and how convictions and opinions are formed. It was a ...

Across scientific disciplines, psychology being no exception, a distinction is often made between basic and applied research. Basic research, as this distinction goes, is ivory-tower research, with no ...

Representatives from the Purdue Applied Research Institute’s LASER PULSE program traveled to Vietnam this summer to meet with three research teams working on air or water pollution projects. Led by ...