About the ASR Project

Renewing the conditions that allow science to serve the public good.

American science needs durable conditions: trusted evidence, capable institutions, public understanding, scientific talent, lawful oversight, and working relationships across sectors and political divides.

The ASR Project exists to strengthen those conditions.

Our work is grounded in three commitments: continuity, comity, and renewal.

Continuity means preserving the knowledge, people, records, programs, and relationships that scientific work requires.

Comity means creating serious settings where people can work across disagreement without distorting evidence or diminishing expertise.

Renewal means strengthening the systems that allow science to serve the public with integrity, clarity, and practical effect.

ASR is not a partisan project. It is a renewal project. We do not ask people to agree on every policy question. We ask them to share a commitment to honest evidence, capable institutions, public service, and the responsible use of scientific knowledge.

Steward the Institutions by strengthening the systems that allow science to serve.

Scientific institutions require more than technical excellence. They need credible advisory processes, transparent communication, lawful oversight, stable governance, and the ability to correct mistakes without losing public confidence.

ASR works to strengthen the systems that allow science to inform public action with integrity.

Preserve the talent by keeping scientific expertise in public use.

Scientific capacity lives in people.

When institutions face uncertainty, expertise can be lost quickly. Careers are interrupted. Relationships weaken. Institutional memory fades.

ASR works to preserve scientific talent and help people with scientific expertise remain connected to useful public work.

Clarify the evidence by making science understandable, usable, and worthy of trust.

Trust in science has to be earned.

ASR focuses on the practices that make evidence trustworthy: clarity, transparency, humility, peer review, open correction, and careful communication about uncertainty.

The goal is to protect the conditions that make science reliable and publicly useful.

Convene the table by working across difference under shared standards.

Renewal requires people who do not agree on everything to work on shared public problems.

ASR creates settings where scientists, policymakers, institutional leaders, funders, public-health professionals, legal experts, and civic partners can address questions of scientific capacity and public trust under shared standards.

Comity does not mean avoiding hard questions. It means working through them with discipline.

Build the Commons and give renewal a shared civic workspace.

Science Renewal Commons is ASR’s collaborative environment for American Science Renewal.

The Commons is being designed as a lively space for collaboration, information sharing, literature, comments, expert notes, working groups, voting, briefings, and practical tools.

It is a renewal forum: a place where evidence, experience, and institutional knowledge become shared work.

What this produces.

ASR’s work is designed to produce practical civic infrastructure: briefs, explainers, expert networks, convenings, talent-preservation strategies, continuity maps, institutional recommendations, and shared resources for people working to renew American science.

We are building a framework for American Science Renewal: serious enough for policymakers, credible enough for universities, useful enough for public institutions, and open enough for citizens who want science to serve the country well.

Help build the conditions for American Science Renewal.