Dr. Richard Barke is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy. He received his BS in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Rochester. His research interests have focused on the regulation of risk, the roles of politics within science, and of science within politics. Dr. Barke has written about topics such as the political behavior of scientific disciplines, the impact of university curricula on the organization and advancement of scientific knowledge, the politics of science budgeting in Congress, and how scientists translate scientific findings into policy recommendations. He has received nummerous NSF grants and has consulted with the U.S. government (Energy, Army, Commerce), with science agencies in Belgium, Bulgaria, and China, and with private tech companies (chemicals and medical devices). For several years he worked on Capitol Hill as a lead consultant on science advising and the congressional science budget for the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government. His current project is a multidisciplinary examination of challenges and opportunities for long-term policymaking in the U.S.