With the subject of immigration reform being a hot topic in Washington, there has been much talk of expanding the opportunities for graduates with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering and math (“STEM”) to obtain a green card. Kate Darling is a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studies the laws, social challenges and ethics around human-robot interaction. Science fundamentally is the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the natural and physical world through observations and experiments.

Through research, training, and policy analysis, articulation of such issues can promote the diffusion of scientific and technological … Read More..