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...Monday, announcing that his Council of Economic Advisers will be chaired by University of California at Berkeley economist Christina D. Romer, who was a subject of national indignation earlier this year when Harvard did not offer her a tenured professorship. Economists, including Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw, a former CEA chief under President Bush, have hailed Obama’s pick as an “excellent choice.” Though the role of the CEA has been diminished since former President Clinton created the National Economic Council in 1993, Romer will be charged with leading a staff...
...also chairman of the Committee on Education Abroad—said that after more than a year of deliberation, the committee has decided on three specific factors that define a “significant international experience:” cultural immersion, faculty involvement, and curricular integration. The CEA provides oversight for the University’s development of travel abroad programs and will evaluate all student applications for the Rockefeller grants, according to Lue. He added that the Office of International Programs will provide the “logistical infrastructure” necessary to administer the grants. Lue said that...
...toward energy efficiency, and most wouldn't know where to begin recycling a used laptop. But that's beginning to change, thanks largely to initiatives coming from within the consumer electronics industry itself - with a significant push from environmentalists. A new report by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) found that the industry's top performers managed to reduce electricity use 5% to 25% per $1 million in revenue over the past three or four years. Other companies within the industry are managing to reduce their carbon emissions per million dollars of revenue or by cutting emissions outright. And the best...
...industry workers, who, like many Americans, are gradually focusing attention on the environmental value of their work. Their bosses have noticed. "We're all citizens of the world, and everyone wants to work for an employer who leaves the world a better place," says Gary Shapiro, CEO of the CEA. "We do want to keep employee turnover down...
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