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Tufts University has been selected to join the Association of American Universities (AAU), a consortium of America s leading research universities noted for their accomplishments in education, research, and innovation.
Tufts joins a select group of 65 other highly regarded institutions, including Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, and MIT. Member universities help shape policy for higher education, science, and innovation, promote best practices in undergraduate and graduate education, and strengthen the contributions of leading research universities to American society. Every day, Tufts makes a positive difference in the world and helps to address the great challenges of our time through its teaching, research, and people, especially by nurturing the next generation of world leaders and innovators, said President Anthony P. Monaco. Joining AAU is a great honor that enhances our impact by placing us in the company of like-minded and similarly-
Schumer, GOP to Test Bipartisan Possibility With China Bill Bloomberg 3 hrs ago Daniel Flatley
(Bloomberg) An effort in the Senate to ramp up federal support for U.S. research and development in the aim of better competing with China heads toward an initial vote on Wednesday, posing a test of lawmakers’ ability to bridge sharp partisan differences across most of the congressional agenda.
The Commerce Committee is expected to vote on whether to send the package, framed around a $100 billion, five-year injection to American colleges and universities, to the full Senate. While Republicans and Democrats have both emphasized the need for stronger efforts to confront China’s campaign to best the U.S. in technological development, getting agreement on actual legislation and powering it through the 50-50 split in the Senate is proving a challenge.
Schumer, GOP to Test Bipartisan Possibility With China Bill Bloomberg 2 hrs ago Daniel Flatley
(Bloomberg) An effort in the Senate to ramp up federal support for U.S. research and development in the aim of better competing with China heads toward an initial vote on Wednesday, posing a test of lawmakers’ ability to bridge sharp partisan differences across most of the congressional agenda.
The Commerce Committee is expected to vote on whether to send the package, framed around a $100 billion, five-year injection to American colleges and universities, to the full Senate. While Republicans and Democrats have both emphasized the need for stronger efforts to confront China’s campaign to best the U.S. in technological development, getting agreement on actual legislation and powering it through the 50-50 split in the Senate is proving a challenge.
An effort in the Senate to ramp up federal support for U.S. research and development in the aim of better competing with China heads toward an initial vote on Wednesday, posing a test of lawmakers’ ability to bridge sharp partisan differences across most of the congressional agenda.
Fox’s vision allowed UCSD to become one of the greenest campuses in the nation. Source: UC San Diego http://mafox.ucsd.edu/bio/
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Marye Anne Fox, UC San Diego’s first woman chancellor, died Sunday at age 73, UCSD announced today.
Fox was UCSD’s seventh chancellor and led the university “during a historic era of extraordinary campus growth and through unprecedented financial challenges,” Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla said in a statement.
Under her leadership, UCSD completed a billion-dollar capital campaign, celebrated its 50th anniversary and expanded the campus to accommodate student growth and a billion-dollar research enterprise.