Renewed human capital investment needed
When the space shuttle Discovery launches this month, it will carry two UC graduates on board. While I'm proud of our connection to these two astronauts, I'm deeply concerned over the ability of California to continue to inspire and educate our future generations of promising students who dream of healing the sick, founding new enterprises or flying into space.
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New administration taps UC scholars
Steven Chu, former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a UC Berkeley professor, and UC Berkeley economics professor Christina Romer are just two of the UC people President Barack Obama called upon to help shape his administration.
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