Basic Research Matters: Meet The Winners Of 2024’s Golden Goose Awards

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The three recipients of the Golden Goose Award for 2024 have been announced. They include research projects that led to major scientific advancements in artificial intelligence, ecology, and the use of satellite imagery to locate undiscovered penguin populations in the Antarctic.

The Golden Goose Award recognizes federally funded research that initially appears trivial or obscure but ultimately results in major scientific breakthroughs. It celebrates the ultimate value of basic research and its fundamental importance in advancing knowledge. The awards are hosted annually by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

The name of the award derives from the “Golden Fleece Awards,” a tongue-in-cheek designation coined by the late senator William Proxmire in the 1970s to ridicule federal spending he considered wasteful. Proxmire singled out research that sounded odd or unimportant and was easily mis-characterized as a waste of taxpayer fund.

Proxmire’s ridicule was ultimately converted into an honor when Representative Jim Cooper of Tennessee introduced the idea of the Golden Goose Award almost two decades ago. Championing an award that would recognize the benefits of federally funded research by highlighting examples of apparently inconsequential studies that have led to major breakthroughs, Cooper announced the creation of the Golden Goose Award in Spring 2012. 

That same year the Golden Goose Awards’ founding organizations issued the first three awards to groups of researchers whose “seemingly obscure, federally-funded research had led to major breakthroughs in biomedical research, medical treatments, and computing and communications technologies.”


Website: International Research Awards

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