Innovate Carolina + "Research Universities and the Sputnik Moment"
We have so much work ahead of us. Our to-do list is nothing less than the greatest problems of our time: cure diseases, and get those cures to all the people who need them. Find and invent clean energy. Inspire students in our public schools. Feed seven billion people. Describe the world, and replace conflict with understanding. Chancellor Holden Thorp
Research Universities and the Sputnik Moment - scienceprogress.org
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It’s hard to imagine a meaningful response to President Obama’s “Sputnik moment” that does not involve the nation’s research universities. With a history measured in centuries rather than years or decades, combined endowments in excess of $250 billion, Nobel prize-winning faculty, and a generation of students as intellectually curious and socially committed as any in history, research universities are among the crown jewels of our society. The demise of many leading private research facilities further underscores the importance of universities in igniting a national innovation agenda. In the words of Stanford’s President John Hennessy, “If the universities don’t work on the world’s biggest problems, who will?”