Federal legislators worry that US research universities are losing their edge.
Four US federal legislators want the nation's National Academies to identify how its research universities can remain internationally competitive. In a 22 June letter, Senators Barbara Mikulski (Democrat, Maryland) and Lamar Alexander (Republican, Tennessee) and Representatives Bart Gordon (Democrat, Tennessee) and Ralph Hall (Republican, Texas) ask the academies to assess universities' organizational, intellectual and financial capacity and their collaborations with other national research groups. Academies spokesperson Sara Frueh said the organization's leaders will now discuss how to conduct such a study.
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Competitive edge. Nature 460, 135 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7251-135c
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