Houston, we have a problem: What the Voting Public Believes about Science Funding

In an election year with a tight Federal budget outlook, the views of the voting public are critical to forecasting what may be in store for the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy Office of Science and National Institute for Standards and Technology. It is these people who weigh in with their legislators to identify what is important and what should be cut. The results of some recent polling commissioned by the APS and other scientific societies reveal that the ge neral public may not be as supportive of Federal science funding as has been previously believed. Jodi Lieberman will present the results of that polling data and how it is likely to impact the next Federal science budget.