This spring, 25 MIT students and a postdoc traveled to Washington, where they met with congressional offices to advocate for federal science funding and specific, science-based policies based on insights from their research on pressing issues — including artificial intelligence, health, climate and ocean science, energy, and industrial decarbonization. Organized annually by the Science Policy Initiative (SPI), this year’s trip came at a particularly critical moment, as science agencies are facing unprecedented funding cuts.Over the course of two days, the group met with 66 congressional offices across 35 states and…
