Basic Research

  • Vanderbilt University

    Your smartphone wouldn’t exist without university research

    (iStock) According to a number of economic studies, somewhere between one-quarter and one-third of our current economy is based on technologies that didn’t exist 50 years ago: They are the end products of basic scientific and engineering research. It’s hard to wrap your mind around a statistic… Read More

    Oct. 31, 2014

  • Vanderbilt University

    Fauchet participates in engineering public policy colloquium on Capitol Hill

    (iStock) According to a number of economic studies, somewhere between one-quarter and one-third of our current economy is based on technologies that didn’t exist 50 years ago: They are the end products of basic scientific and engineering research. It’s hard to wrap your mind around a statistic… Read More

    Feb. 13, 2014