--- title: Connecting research to policy on Capitol Hill | daily.dev description: 25 MIT graduate students and postdocs participated in Congressional Visit Days (CVD), traveling to Washington D.C. to meet with 62 congressional offices across... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/connecting-research-to-policy-on-capitol-hill-bxuzf4cbd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Connecting research to policy on Capitol Hill | daily.dev og:description: 25 MIT graduate students and postdocs participated in Congressional Visit Days (CVD), traveling to Washington D.C. to meet with 62 congressional offices across... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/connecting-research-to-policy-on-capitol-hill-bxuzf4cbd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bxuZf4cbd.png og:image:alt: Connecting research to policy on Capitol Hill og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Connecting research to policy on Capitol Hill **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 25 MIT graduate students and postdocs participated in Congressional Visit Days (CVD), traveling to Washington D.C. to meet with 62 congressional offices across 32 states. Organized by the MIT Science Policy Initiative, the program trained participants on the federal appropriations process and science communication before they advocated for NSF funding, AI privacy and security, environmental science, energy, and health policy. Staffers from both parties showed interest in AI and environmental topics like deep-sea mining, and participants came away with a clearer picture of how scientists can engage in federal policymaking. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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