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Pelosi spoke after a meeting at Princeton University, where she met with five other House Democrats and prominent American researchers to discuss the future of U.S. innovation. "We stand by [science] as the most important investment we can make in the health, the education, the energy independence, the job creation and the defense of America," the Speaker said. See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...Princeton meeting came out of talks between Pelosi and the president of the university, drawing together scientists and administrators from business, academia and other research organizations. But people who sat in on the panel - which was not open to the general public - said that researchers and lawmakers discussed why and how to improve U.S. research and development, as well as the link between innovation and prosperity. Attendees included high-level representatives of Intel, Merck, the American Chemical Society, the Association of American Universities and the National Academy of Engineering...
Amid the financial crisis that is gripping the country, one bright spot may be an increase in recent college graduates considering the field of education. Teach For America, a project founded in 1990 by Princeton alum Wendy Kopp, places thousands of the nation’s top graduates in teaching positions in the poorest school districts. This year TFA has seen a marked rise in applications, including those from Harvard students. In November, President-elect Obama called on our nation to embrace public service. It seems that his hopes may yet be answered, as more and more Americans seem...
Harvard Kennedy School professor Joseph S. Nye, a graduate of Princeton and an authority on international relations, defended his alma mater, saying that the Wilson School follows the original mission of the foundation “very much...
...Library will be overflowing with students chugging Red Bull and obsessing over the “production possibilities frontier.” Some Harvard undergraduates just can’t wait. Starting in the 2009-2010 academic year, fall examinations at Harvard will take place before winter break, leaving Princeton as the only Ivy League university with exams in January. To accommodate this change, classes will start two weeks earlier in September and end three days earlier in April. As undergraduates enter their last exam-free December, many students on campus are enthusiastic about the calendar reform...