Spring 2003
Longtime North Carolina Education Leader Tapped to Head New SMT Center

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 STORY

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Drugs Are Not Us

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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