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ASHEBORO — Randolph Community College’s Rodney Ledford is one of two students chosen as a Michelin Technical Scholar thanks to the college’s partnership with Oliver Rubber/Michelin.
2 hours ago I entered Stanford University in the fall of 1966, majoring in Physics and looking forward to a career in the emerging computer industry. I had read how the Stanford Provost, Frederick Emmons Terman, Jr., had pioneered the concept of a “Community of Technical Scholars,” combining campus brainpower with local industry to create what later became known as Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, the narrative failed to mention a third partner, the U.S. Department of Defense. Stanford’s Engineering School and the university’s wholly owned subsidiary, the Stanford Research Institute (...