Supporting environmental literacy and a strong foundation in science, technology, engineering, and math for every student will help ensure our youth have the skills and knowledge to advance our clean energy economy.
As I wrote in June, according to the Kauffman Foundation, 25.3% of technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. from 1995 to 2005, at least one key founder was foreign-born.
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He currently serves on the Board of Regents at the University of Hartford as well as on the Board of Advisers for the College of Engineering and the Tunxis Community College Foundation Board in Farmington, Conn.
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According to the Kauffman Foundation, 25.3% of technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. from 1995 to 2005, at least one key founder was foreign-born.
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He had a deep foundation in technology dating back to his undergraduate degree in computer science and engineering, but continuing through to his deep collaborations with CIOs over the years.
Consider what happened at San Jose State after the university last fall ran a test course in electrical engineering paid for by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Researchers at the Kauffman Foundation released a study late last year showing that from 2006 to 2012, one in four engineering and technology companies started in the U.S. had at least one foreign-born founder in Silicon Valley it was almost half of new companies.
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"Bob is the top of the top in tissue engineering, " says Bruce Hamilton , director of bioengineering and environmental systems at the National Science Foundation.
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