sector and academia, as needed. we bring in as many people as we can because we recognize it's going to be an all of the above type of activity to answer these priority areas that the veterans administration has defined. >> so, i mean, actually, that's a perfect marriage, if you will, in that we have that ability and we're able to do that, and thereby, do away with this stigma, do away with the nonability to not work with outside groups and make this as seamless as possible. i'm still going to come back to you for one more. these research partnerships have the potential to accelerate scientific breakthrough in health care delivery systems and bio sciences. should the department replicate this model in other fields of research, and what steps can we as congress take to facilitate that? >> so, i think the answer is yes in terms of replication. our focal point right now has been on the veterans health data and on the precision medicine data set because of its unique complexities, because it comes with annotations, with handwritten notes, with data streams and imagery and the collections

, academia, government, we all have a role to play in moving the needle forward. and one critical area where i see government playing a critical role is what i call a convener of conversations. and that is to bring people around the table and put the important issues and needs on the table with the right people so that we can have an open dialogue to ensure that the needs of tomorrow are being addressed by our schools and our education system so we can prepare for that workforce. and it's important in doing so that we break those silos down so that we can have good important conversations. and there is no easy fix there is sometimes communication and language differences. but it's really important to have those conversations. and to use a term that i heard this morning, that's stefani pashman used from the allegheny conference, it's the information gap. how do we ensure that we're fulfilling that information gap and making sure that those conversations exist? and i'll tell you, in the conversations that we had in new york city government, it's easy to say, well, let's not train people

partnerships with labs and academia and the private sector are important. a concerted effort here will lead to innovation tied to design and development of doe's next generation supercomputing that will merge big data, artificial intelligence and high-performance computing to. better healthcare, via our strategy for precision medicine, through super computing and artificial intelligence that could inform when and how to treat our veterans to improve outcomes and control costs, to better science, via a cadre of researchers and clinicians who specialize in healthcare with doe experts in big data, ai and high-performance computing, and to better government via interagency collaborations bringing to bear the full capabilities and expertise within public and private partnerships. thank you, and i look forward to answering your questions. >> thank you, and we now recognize mr. meek for his testimony. >> chairwoman come stack and ranking member lipinski, chairman wieber an ranking member johnson of the subcommittee on energy and members of both subcommittees, thanks for having me here today. on se

early 2000s it was very popular in academia, for obvious reasons there was an overfocus on trying to find ideologies behind the putin regime. it took ideology, i think, much too seriously in trying to understand how the kremlin worked. now there haven't in the mainstream enough interrogation of the besieged fort tress, what they mean, what the russian establishment has come to believe about certain things and how it's propagating ideologies and pumping them into institutions and network institutions from the whole secret service world, it really is a world of private schools and private hunting lodges and into the bureaucracy and into the military. i think that when we talk about russia a comment that one receives from russian officials and then media, media, media sock puppets is you're talking about fragment remains of the 1990s. they do have a point here which is that the -- certainly the discussion in the media we get is an overfocus on a generation of ambitious 1990 oligarchs heavy criminal lysed, but you have these sort of western global financial ambitions and there isn't e

committee. there's no question about it. and once you get all the academia behind you, it still comes down to who are those who are less fortunate that we need to give more concern to? and that's where we are. and i'm hopeful that eventually that we can get there because they are the ones who wake up tomorrow with nothing on the table. and i yield back, mr. chairman. >> are there other amendments to title iv? well, everybody had a five-minute bite at the apple. are there other amendments? recognize mr. walsh for five minutes. >> that's why i'm going to yield to one of those smart people, mr. mcgovern. >> i thank the gentleman for yielding. i'm amazed at how this markup has evolved. in the beginning, my friends on the other side were talking about how these provisions were the greatest thing since slice bread. they were wonderful and then mr. davis basically said don't pay attention to what's in the bill. you may think it's bad but this is the beginning of a process. it will change and change and maybe get better. here is a radical idea. why don't we start off with the very best product we

friends from the intelligence community, from the think tank and world of academia and other agencies around town. and even some media friends i have made over the years, so thank you for having me today. in the interest of time i'm going to cut right to the chase, and try to identify a core question. and give you my thoughts on that core question and hopefully frame the discussion that we have on the panel, but also during the q and a. so the core question i have been thinking a lot about is what exactly is putin going to do in the next six years, now that he has won reelection? does have a strategy? what does he really seek to achieve during this timeframe? i'm not even going to get into -- some of you may have seen that is the rate of chechnya. somebody might want to put in the constitution for 2024, that is a whole subject unto itself. i'm going to focus on the next six years. so if i look -- by the way, i think everybody will become a russia expert. it is impossible not to pick up a newspaper and everybody has an opinion on putin. so i'm just one of them. i spent a lot o

, civil rights organizations, and academia. have posted a series of meetings to hear perspectives from hate crime survivors, academic experts, advocacy leaders and law enforcement officials on best practices to combat hate. the end product will be a summary report outlining the action items detailing the discussions on the advisory group and will be released between the summer and early fall of 2018. it is a very competent of documents that we will clearly make available to this committee. today i would like to focus on challenges law-enforcement faces when it comes to hate crimes. as you have heard from the last two presenters, over the years, one of the greatest barriers to confront the overcoming hate violence has been the lack of statistical data on the occurrence and nature of these crimes. participation of the reporting system, which like the rest of the ucr is voluntary. while participation has increased over the year, but dissipation levels are seriously lacking. we know that figures -- the figures, as reported to the fbi, strongly suggest a serious undercutting of hate crimes,

-- has to do with the changing labor force composition in academia. there are fewer tenured track slots. there are often 200 applicants for a single job. but, that is one of the reasons why we have put so much effort in the past five years into thinking hard about what a phd is for. what is the purpose of the history phd? is it only to become a professor? 25% of all history phd's are not professors of any kind. they are not lecturers, adjuncts, teaching at the college level. some of them are teaching high school, but a lot of those history phd's are in the private sector. or they work for the government, , the public-sector, investment banking, marketing. just about everything. so, what we are trying to do now is to help graduate programs rethink their phd program in terms of how they prepare people for a variety of careers. susan: how much hunger is there among the academy in particular to learn digital technology? and are you, in fact, helping to train people on the importance of using twitter, of having a facebook presence, blogs? james: we don't have to teach 20-year-olds the

academia that we can all understand, and that is a rare, rare gift. one of the reasons why david and molly and don and marie and gay, we all work to create this series, the vision fork, was for this, and to promote this sense of civic education and remembrance of the founding, and by design, this is why this year's program has closed with these two individuals. on that note, a last, quick question. the state of civic education in america today and historical literacy, which piggybacks off what we just talked about, professor woods? as i say, the tail being written by the academics is tale of americanhistory, is a tale of oppression. these are stories that should be told, but not at the exclusion of the other stories. there are alternative facts, lots of facts out there. the question is, how focused should you be on all the negative facts? hoe one wants to hide the fact that the treatment of the native peoples was atrocious over the long run. although not everyone was out to eliminate them, it certainly wasn't genocide in any nazi kind of sense. but it is a tragic story, an , the whol