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The Science Teacher's Legacy
James M. Gentile | March 20, 2012 | Huffington Post
During the 100th Anniversary Gala of Research Corporation for Science Advancement last week, Ralph J. Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences, asked the assembled group of science luminaries to pause and remember Nobel Prize-winning chemist F. Sherwood Rowland, who had died four days earlier and who literally may...
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Growing Scientists at America's Top Liberal Arts Colleges
James M. Gentile | January 24, 2012 | Huffington Post
America's oldest foundation devoted wholly to science -- Research Corporation for Science Advancement -- celebrates its 100th anniversary this year and, in that context, announced last week the 10 liberal arts colleges in the United States that have received the most research grants from the foundation in its history. It's...
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It's Time to STEM the Loss of Science and Engineering Students
James M. Gentile | November 14, 2011 | Huffington Post
President Barack Obama and the Jobs Council announced earlier this year an "all-hands-on-deck strategy to train 10,000 new American engineers every year" -- with private-sector companies teaming up with government to help "promote STEM education, to offer students incentives to finish those degrees, and then to help universities fund those programs." Generating home-grown engineers and scientists is crucial to ensuring our nation's leadership in the technological innovations that have fueled our economy for decades -- and to employing Americans in related industries.
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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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Make Educating Future Scientists a Top Priority
James M. Gentile | February 28, 2011 | Huffington Post
Last week, the Nation's Report Card released additional information on the performance of U.S. students in science. The results should be a call to action for all who care about the economic preeminence of our nation, and its ability to provide future jobs to deserving Americans.
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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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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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