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News Coverage August 2007

July 20, 2007- New York Times, “Challenges for Black Colleges’ Brightest in the Lab”
On the June morning when James Lucas first met Stephanie E. Sen outside the research laboratory she oversaw, he made one request. “Don’t put me on a project that’s too important,” he said. He could already envision himself botching an experiment and losing Professor Sen a lot of money. He worried that after all the hype about what a prodigy he was in chemistry, he wouldn’t measure up. In her polite and genial way, Professor Sen spurned his plea. The reason Mr. Lucas had come to the joint Indiana University-Purdue University campus here was to do important work. The entire point was that a promising 18-year-old be dropped into a lab populated by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

July 10, 2007- New York Times, “Determined to Reinspire a Culture of Innovation”
Like everyone else, William A. Wulf understands the importance of innovation in the American economy, and how innovation depends on an educated workforce and abundant spending on research. But learning and investment are not enough, Dr. Wulf says. An innovation economy depends on intellectual property law, tax codes, patent procedures, export controls, immigration regulations and factors making up what he calls “the ecology of innovation.” Unfortunately, he argues, in the United States too many of these components are unworkable, irrelevant, inadequate, outdated or “fundamentally broken.

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