Why should science receive federal funding?

 Who decides which science gets funded?

How are science funding priorities set?

 How are the decisions made?

Who are the key players in setting science policy?

 How can funding decisions be influenced?

Find out in a NEW COURSE for Spring 2000!

Science & Politics
Taught By

Dave Prentice
Professor of Life Sciences and
Special Advisor on Science to U.S. Senator Sam Brownback
   

Robert Kirby Goidel
Associate Professor of Political Science
   

Topics Include: Cloning, Embryo Research, Bioethics, Global Warming, Evolution & Intelligent Design, Funding Research on Diseases (AIDS vs. Breast Cancer vs. Heart Disease), Nuclear Energy, The Space Station, Endangered Species vs. Jobs, and others!

*Undergraduates Register for LIFS 491 (code# 10396) or PSCI 400E (code# 12962)
**Graduate Students Register for LIFS 691 (code# 10440) or PSCI 500E (12963)