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Strengthening science education is the key to securing our energy future, says Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's president
?| December 16, 2011?|
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson
Image: Photograph by Spencer Heyfron
In Brief
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WHO
Shirley Ann Jackson -
LINE OF WORK
Advocate in chief for building the reputation of a major research university -
WHERE
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute -
BIG PICTURE
Science literacy will play a vital role in addressing major national challenges such as formulating energy policy. -
ON ENERGY AND EDUCATION
?If we don?t have the right talent, we?re not going to be able to meet our energy needs.?
When Shirley Ann Jackson was in elementary school in the 1950s, she would prowl her family?s backyard, collecting bumblebees, yellow jackets and wasps. She would bottle them in mayonnaise jars and test which flowers they liked best and which species were the most aggressive. She dutifully recorded her observations in a notebook, discovering, for instance, that she could alter their daily rhythms by putting them under the dark porch in the middle of the day. The most important lesson she took away from these experiments was not about science but compassion. ?Don?t imprison any living thing for very long,? she says in a mellow drawl that belies her reputation as a lightning-fast thinker and influential physicist. ?I have never been a fan of dead insect collections.?
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