We have too many research initiatives, too many locations, and too many special projects or studies.

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Representing the university administration at the meeting was Melanie Boyd, director of undergraduate studies in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program and special adviser to the dean of Yale College and the student-run Women's Center.

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David Criswell, professor of physics at the University of Houston, has written scores of studies detailing the possibility of using special power bases on the moon for harnessing solar energy.

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That plastic solar cell was created through a special program at Georgia Tech called the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE), which studies the use and development of printed electronics.

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