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AN IMPORTANT ROLE FOR SCIENCE
NEWS HEADLINES OF recent months have been dominated by President Obama's work with Congress on the issue of healthcare reform. And while it appears...
ASEE Prism, 09/01/09 by Huband, Frank L · More from publication -
AMID BAD SIGNS, GLIMMERS OF HOPE
MICHIGAN - and Detroit specifically - is syn- onymous with the American automobile, and the news from Michigan hasn't been good lately. Suffering...
ASEE Prism, 07/01/09 by Huband, Frank L · More from publication -
SPREADING DROUGHT
"WATER, WATER, everywhere, nor any drop to drink." So wrote the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797 as doomed the Mariner to watch shipmates the...
ASEE Prism, 12/01/08 by Huband, Frank L · More from publication -
TOUGH CHALLENGES AND SOBERING LESSONS
AYEAR AGO, in the November 2007 issue of Prism, I noted in my Comments that Mark Matthews had joined us as Prism's new managing editor. He had been...
ASEE Prism, 11/01/08 by Huband, Frank L · More from publication -
AN ENGINEERING FIX FOR HEALTH CARE
FROM THE PUBLISHER IN THIS HISTORIC ELECTION YEAR, there are key issues voters want addressed. One such concern is health care - both the...
ASEE Prism, 10/01/08 by Huband, Frank L · More from publication -
LABS GO TO WAR
THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN have had a collateral effect of pressing research and engineering for what the military calls a "quick win," or...
ASEE Prism, 09/01/08 by Huband, Frank L · More from publication -
Lessons in Survival
DARWIN SAID it is not the strongest of the species that survives, but the one most responsive to change. Today, it appears that it is often the...
ASEE Prism, 07/01/08 by Huband, Frank L · More from publication -
Impact of a Weak Dollar
ROBERT BROWNING WROTE, "Oh to be in England, now that April's here." But being in England today is an expensive proposition, what with the falling...
ASEE Prism, 04/01/08 by Huband, Frank L · More from publication -
Government Work Loses Its Luster
THIS MONTH'S PRISM cover story, "Help Wanted," looks at the state of the technical workforce in the federal government, and, unfortunately, the...
ASEE Prism, 03/01/08 by Huband, Frank L · More from publication -
Attracting the Best-and Keeping Them
LAST FALL, it was my pleasure to attend the opening of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (HSEAS), and to hear Harvard...
ASEE Prism, 02/01/08 by Huband, Frank L · More from publication
