Golden Goose

Latest Golden Goose Award Winners Focused on DNA Applications, and Chickens  
Investment
September 27, 2023

Latest Golden Goose Award Winners Focused on DNA Applications, and Chickens  

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Social Scientists Should Take a Gander at Golden Goose Award
Announcements
August 26, 2022

Social Scientists Should Take a Gander at Golden Goose Award

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For 2019, Resolve to Grant Overdue Recognition
Impact
December 19, 2018

For 2019, Resolve to Grant Overdue Recognition

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Golden Goose Award Recognizes Implicit Bias Work
News
September 14, 2018

Golden Goose Award Recognizes Implicit Bias Work

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Can’t Keep a Good Survey Down: Add Health

Can’t Keep a Good Survey Down: Add Health

From the ashes of the aborted American Teen Survey arose one of the most important longitudinal surveys in the social and and behavioral arsenal, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. This is a story of government spending gone terribly right!

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Honoring High Achievements in ‘Hypsographic Demography’

Honoring High Achievements in ‘Hypsographic Demography’

Two decades ago two curious scientists from very different fields wondered how many people live at various altitudes. Aided by federal funding, their inquiries have helped in area ranging from disaster preparedness to cancer research to fresher snack foods. Now the duo have been honored with a Golden Goose Award.

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Matt Owens on Obscure Research That Makes a Big Impact

Matt Owens on Obscure Research That Makes a Big Impact

‘Don’t judge a book by its cover – federal funding for odd or frivolous sounding research pays enormous societal, health, security, and economic dividends to the American taxpayer,’ argues a member of the steering committee for the Golden Goose Award.

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Federal Funds Paid for Brain Research That’s the Cat’s Meow

Federal Funds Paid for Brain Research That’s the Cat’s Meow

Two neurophysiologists who brought kittens into their lab to study vision have been honored with the Golden Goose Award for federally funded experiments that once sounded silly but provided important benefits to society.

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Federal Funding and the Famed Marshmallow Test

Federal Funding and the Famed Marshmallow Test

Were a psychologist to win federal funding for an experiment that involved offering 3-year-olds marshmallows, it’s likely that grant would eventually be cited on the floor of the House of Representatives as yet another example of silly and wasteful spending on social science.

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We Should Be Happy Federal Tax Dollars Funded Rat Massage

We Should Be Happy Federal Tax Dollars Funded Rat Massage

The latest winners of the Gold Goose Award for seemingly weird science with big practical benefits are researchers whose brush with lab rat love is now helping thousands of preemies.

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Of Geese and Game Theory: Auctions, Airwaves – and Applications

Of Geese and Game Theory: Auctions, Airwaves – and Applications

Three economists who used federal funding to research highly theoretical work on game theory and auctions are being honored with Golden Goose Awards for the highly practical application of their work that enabled the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to auction off the nation’s telecommunications spectrum in a way that maximized fairness and efficiency in the marketplace.

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Golden Goose Awards: Honk If You Support Basic Research

Golden Goose Awards: Honk If You Support Basic Research

It can be fun to poke at oddball research, but a U.S. award rewards researchers whose peculiar efforts pay off for society.

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