Read Boston Globe featured op-ed co-authored by MIT President Susan Hockfield and Qualcomm Chairman and CEO Paul Jacobs calling for Senate's approval of America COMPETES.
Read Ithaca Journal's "Bright Ideas Pay Dividends," editorial about the Sparking Ecomonic Growth Report in New York.
Watch Steve Hutchieson, Founder, Zymetis and Debbie Altenburg, President, The Science Coalition discuss TSC's Sparking Economic Growth Report on Platt's Energy Week.
Click here to read TSC's Sparking Economic Growth Report, which identifies 100 “success stories” – examples of companies that are the result of federal investments in basic research. Collectively, these 100 companies employ well over 100,000 people and have annual revenues approaching $100 billion.
Dr. Samuel Stanley, president of Stony Brook University
Recently at a hearing before the congressional Joint Economic Committee, experts discussed how federally funded university research drives innovation that contributes to local economies. The hearing expert witnesses included Dr. Samuel Stanley, president of Stony Brook University and Zachary Shulman, senior lecturer of entrepreneurship at Cornell University’s Johnson School of business and managing partner at Cayuga Venture Fund. Click here to read TSC's press release on the hearing.
UNIVERSITY SCIENCE TODAY
U.S. birth weights dip
In contrast to previous research findings, birth weights fell even further in infants born to a subset of women considered to be at low risk for small babies. Mothers who were white, well-educated, married, didn’t smoke, received early prenatal care, and delivered vaginally with no complications had babies who weighed an average of 2.78 ounces less at birth during the study period.
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