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There's much more to it, though. "Imagine," says Stanford University president John Hennessy, "that the next round of innovations in networking is done in India or China. How many years is it before either Cisco relocates to India or China and grows most of its new jobs there or the next Cisco is actually created there?" That's not so farfetched, says Du Pont CEO Chad Holliday: "If the U.S. doesn't get its act together, Du Pont is going to go to the countries that do, and so are IBM and Intel. We'd much rather be here...
Even so, the U.S. commitment to science might have remained strong if the Soviet Union hadn't collapsed in the late '80s. "We don't have this shadow of Sputnik or the cold war overhanging us," says Stanford's Hennessy, "and we need a different form of inspiration." In fact, says Robert Birgeneau, a physicist and chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, it already exists, if only we would recognize it. "We have a different kind of war, an economic war," he says. "The importance of investing in long-term research for winning that war hasn't been understood...
...questions like these, which have hovered around the Stanford researchers who have been working on growing human brain cells in mice, that gave rise to one of the more surprising moments in President Bush?s otherwise unsurprising speech Tuesday night...
...June 2005, Stanford became the second major school to divest from firms linked to Sudan, announcing that it would sell direct stakes in PetroChina, Sinopec, Tatneft, and power and automation equipment company ABB Ltd. Elsewhere, at Yale, an advisory committee is preparing a report on whether the school should divest from companies tied to Sudan...
Another former dean of the Faculty, A. Michael Spence, surprised the campus in late March 1990, when he announced he would resign in June of that year to become dean of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He had been dean of the Faculty for six years...