We hired cutting-edge researchers, increased funding to doctoral students and are building and upgrading science facilities, including a CUNY Advanced Science Research Center at City College.
The mayor's plan calls for $4 billion to build or lease 76 new school buildings and $4.6 billion in improvements like wireless computer networking in all schools, upgraded science labs and new safety equipment, including surveillance cameras.
The university has begun to try to upgrade its science offerings in recent years.
A month after announcing a planned $500 million for upgrading its science and engineering programs (Science, 28 January, p. 579), Yale University said last week that it will pour another half-billion into renovations and new construction on its medical school campus over the next 10 years.
"We built a new athletic center, made a 30,000-square-foot addition and dining hall for our K-6 building, and built a new pre-K building, and renovated and upgraded the science labs throughout the school," said Mr. Nelson, who said that the school was not planning to increase enrollment.
Earlier this year, Yale announced that it would spend $1 billion to upgrade and expand its science, engineering and medical facilities.
Mr. Humm, of Eleven Madison Park and the NoMad, seemed dazzled (and maybe a tad daunted) by the notion of using science to upgrade the arsenal of countless ingredients at his fingertips.
Don't the ed schools have at least some substantive PD (professional development) courseware to upgrade knowledge of math, science, etc".
Only a decade ago, many laypersons found the concept of using transhumanist science to upgrade the human body and conquer death unbelievable and creepy.
