| Longtime North Carolina Education Leader Tapped to Head New SMT Center |
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North Carolina educator and community leader, Dr. Samuel H. Houston,
has been selected as president and CEO of the North Carolina Science,
Mathematics, and Technology Education Center, a new non-profit launched
with BWF support. The Center’s mission is to systematically
improve performance in science, mathematics, and technology education
statewide from pre-kindergarten through high school.... - FULL
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Drugs Are Not Us |
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The Burroughs Wellcome Fund hasn’t been connected with the eponymous drug company for a decade, but the public is still confused. The writer of one recent e-mail to info@bwfund.org asked if we’d stopped production of a motion sickness medication known as Marezine. Another requested information for a study on the Indian starch industry, wondering whether the U.S. pharmaceutical industry uses starch from tapioca or maize.... - FULL STORY |
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