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PCAST Report: Launching the U.S. to Greater STEM Heights
James M. Gentile | February 17, 2012 | Huffington Post
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) issued a report on Feb. 7 on how to produce 1 million additional college graduates over the next decade with degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). It's an important report that should serve as a launching pad for...
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Innovations In Space Technology Are Still Key
James M. Gentile | September 07, 2011 | Huffington Post
It's been a tough summer for space technology -- both for exploring space and for harnessing its resources. Yet innovation in space technology is still key to U.S. scientific and economic preeminence; space has been primarily America's frontier for 50 years and should remain so.
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Cottrell Scholars form Collaborative to promote research and education
August 02, 2011
Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) and its 240-plus national cadre of Cottrell Scholars announce the creation of a new scientific community, the Cottrell Scholars' Collaborative (CSC). An initial slate of leaders has been selected.
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RCSA’s Program Officer Silvia Ronco Elected CUR Chemistry Division Chair
June 24, 2011
The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) has named Silvia Ronco to a two-year term as chair of its Chemistry Division.
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RCSA's Catalytic Funding Builds Science Careers
March 25, 2011
For more than 30 years, RCSA's Rachel Brown Scholarship has been funding top science students at Mount Holyoke College.
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Harvard Students Promote Science Education in New Book
James M. Gentile | January 31, 2011 | Huffington Post
In the wake of President Barack Obama's recent State of the Union Address -- in which he lamented that the "quality of our math and science education lags behind many other nations" -- comes an extraordinary new book by five Harvard College students promoting science education to high school students....
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Will the United States Concede Solar Power to China?
James M. Gentile | January 20, 2011 | Huffington Post
Hu Jintao, president of China, the dominant producer of solar panels in the world, arrives in Washington, DC, for a State visit Tuesday. He arrives just days after one of America's largest producers of solar panels -- Evergreen Solar -- announced that it was, according to The New York Times, "closing its main American factory, laying off the 800 workers by the end of March and shifting production to a joint venture with a Chinese company in central China. Evergreen cited the much higher government support available in China."
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Jairo Sinova has been elected a 2010 Fellow of the APS
December 20, 2010
Cottrell Scholar Jairo Sinova, professor of physics at Texas A&M University, has been elected a 2010 Fellow of the American Physical Society.
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Transforming Higher Education
Martha Gilliland | December 03, 2010
Today only 34 percent of America’s young adults, ages 18-24, are enrolled in college, making the U.S. seventh in that ranking among industrialized nations. (Korea is first, with 53 percent.) The singular essential requirement for a democracy and an economy is the opportunity for mainstream citizens to go to college.
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