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Harvard squash phenom Lily H. Lorentzen, an All-American who was crowned national champion as a freshman last year, has transferred out of Harvard and will ply her trade with the Stanford Cardinal next year...
...mail sent by Lorentzen to her teammates did not go into detail about her decision-making process, though Stanford squash coach Mark Talbott did speculate on the reasons behind the transfer...
...least some of the money to the state treasury. Meanwhile, the influx of talent anticipated to arrive with the 2004 law has ended up being more of an outflow, with some of the country's best scientists being recruited away, including two genetics researchers who turned down posts at Stanford's Stem Cell Biology Institute last year to take jobs in Singapore...
...think there is a risk of a brain drain, and we are seeing it," says Christopher Thomas Scott, executive director of the Stanford Program on Stem Cells in Society. Yeo, for one, is blunt about taking advantage of the American political climate. "I go to the U.S., and I tell those scientists, Come to Singapore and finish your work," he says...
Given its small size, Singapore will never really threaten the U.S.'s overall biomedical muscle, nor is it trying to. But it's impossible to witness the buzz at Biopolis or meet scientists who have chosen Southeast Asia over Stanford and not wonder how much the U.S. could achieve in stem-cell research if it were as science mad as this city-state of 4.4 million. For all the hundreds of millions of dollars Singapore has devoted to high-tech lab equipment and recruiting top scientists from around the world, it is spending just as much to educate a homegrown...