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After returning from the trip, which was funded by the Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium, the students are preparing to present their project to the local community. As part of their project, they are required to conduct outreach, including school visits and speaking to an audience of hundreds at the Museum of Science in Boston...
Supporters say the success at Kukdong is an early step towards establishing decent working conditions in the developing world, particularly because monitoring groups like the Workers’ Rights Consortium (WRC) aren’t strong enough, according to Emma S. MacKinnon ’05, a member of PSLM who helped organize the event...
...cost was put at $20 billion. As Congress is given to do after announcing grand projects, it slimmed down appropriations to less than $10 billion. U.S. researchers eventually teamed up with colleagues in several countries, but in 1998 Congress pulled the plug on the consortium, contending that it was too expensive. President Bush, however, reversed that decision. The White House announced last January that the U.S. "will join ... an ambitious international research project to harness the promise of fusion energy, the same form of energy that powers the sun. America will join negotiations with Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and China...
Other businesses have sounded the alarm, among them a consortium of nearly two dozen companies, including pharmaceutical makers (Abbott Laboratories), brewers (Coors), chemical companies (Dow) and makers of building materials (Owens Corning). They have urged President Bush "to declare war on high natural-gas prices." Heading a list of recommendations: "Maximize use of other energy sources for power generation...
Park, who used to serve as the FAS representative to the Boston area-wide Graduate Consortium on Women's Studies, says that Ed School student interest in gender studies is clear by the large number of GSE students who enroll in Consortium classes. But, Park says, now that Gilligan has gone, there is very little interest on the part of the GSE faculty in gender studies...