TSC IN ACTION

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.  

CAPITOL HILL UPDATE

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.  

September 2, 2010

UNIVERSITY SCIENCE TODAY

Synthetic Dialogue: Researchers Endowing Computers With the Gift of Gab

Synthetic Dialogue: Researchers Endowing Computers With the Gift of Gab

New DoD MURI grant supports investigation of unified theories of language and cognition

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CHAMPIONS OF SCIENCE

Steny

"The federal government's unique and extensive resources come with a responsibility to promote scientific research."

Steny Hoyer (D-MD)

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