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Open Letter to President George W. Bush
(1/25/2006)
Our Emerging Crisis
Our Emerging Crisis: The Graying of American Science” (PDF file)
Reprising the Renaissance
Reprising the Renaissance” (PDF file)
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by Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.
President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Shirley Ann Jackson has written and spoken extensively about the challenges of sustaining the United State’s preeminence in science and technology. She notes that over the next 10 to 20 years the science and technology workforce in the U.S. will be retiring at record rates — and there are not enough people in the “pipeline” to replace them.

In the recent past, the U.S. has relied on non-U.S. students to come to this country and populate our graduate programs, but — particularly in the post-9/11 environment — this is no longer a given.  She calls this overall situation a “quiet crisis” and warns of a “perfect storm” on the horizon that business, academic and government leaders must address.

You Cannot Get There From Here: Why the U.S. Needs a Comprehensive Energy Security Roadmap
Press Release | Video | Audio
Commonwealth Club
San Francisco, California
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Discovery, Innovation, and Policy in Human Health
Keynote Symposium
47th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology
Washington Convention Center
Washington, D.C.
Saturday, December 1, 2007

From Uncertainty to Opportunity: Creating a Comprehensive Energy Roadmap and the Human Capital To Make It Happen
Baker Institute for Public Policy
Rice University
Houston, Texas
Tuesday, November 13, 2007

The Energy Question: Who Decides?
The Washington Post
Thursday, November 8, 2007

Education as an Economic Driver
WMHT-TV Capitaland Quarterly
Thursday, September 6, 2007

Innovation and Energy Security: A Leadership Odyssey
National Science Foundation
Arlington, Virginia
Monday, April 23, 2007

Energy Security: The Innovation Challenge
Earl Bakken Science Education Lecture
The Bakken Museum
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Thursday, March 8, 2007

Science and Leadership: The Imperative
Gustav Pollak Lecture
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Science and Society: A Nexus of Opportunity
Science + Society: Closing the Gap
Boston, Massachusetts
Friday, January 17, 2007

Saluting the Leaders of the Future
Mid-Year Degree Convocation, Colorado School of Mines
Golden, Colorado
Friday, December 15, 2006

Remarks
Beijing Normal University
Beijing, China
Thursday, November 16, 2006

Empires of the Mind
Fall Faculty Convocation, Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Powering Innovation Through Diversity
IBM Watson Research Labs
Yorktown Heights, New York
Monday, October 30, 2006

Global Lessons for Faculty Diversity
Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI)
Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future
Sunday, October 8, 2006

The National Urban Technology Center 10th Annual Gala
The Willard Intercontinental Hotel
Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Energy Security: The “Space Race” of the New Millennium
Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, University of Maryland
Conference on “Energy: Cost and Crisis”
Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Outstanding Teachers Create the Future
Today's Students, Tomorrow's Teachers
The Fountainhead, New Rochelle, New York
Thursday, May 4, 2006

Imagination and the Quiet Crisis
Lemelson-MIT Awards
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Tuesday, May 3, 2006

Fortuitous Convergences
Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG)
Newark, New Jersey
Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Presentation of American Society Of Mechanical Engineers President’s Award
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Energy Security and the Quiet Crisis
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Wednesday, February 8, 2006

The Converging Forces of the Quiet Crisis
Securities and Exchange Commission
African American Council
Tuesday, February 7, 2006

Intellectual Security and the Quiet Crisis
Goldman Sachs Foundation & ETS Symposium
Princeton, New Jersey
Tuesday, November 29, 2005

A Powerful Convergence:
Energy Security and Intellectual Security

NACME Symposium 2005
Vienna, Virginia
Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Powering Excellence Through Diversity
Achieving Excellence through Diversity
Academic Symposium and Inaugural Event
University of California Santa Cruz
Thursday, November 3, 2005

Innovation and Human Capital:
Energy Security and the Quiet Crisis

American Petroleum Institute
San Antonio, Texas
Monday, October 17, 2005

The Quiet Crisis and the Future of American Competitiveness
American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall National Meeting
Washington, D.C.
Monday, August 29, 2005

Nexus: Where Science Meets Society
AAAS Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.
Thursday, February 17, 2005

The View Above the Earth: A Global Perspective
Institute on Teaching and Mentoring
Atlanta, Georgia
Sunday, October 24, 2004

Engineering the Renaissance
NAE Engineer of 2020 National Education Summit
National Academy of Engineering, Washington, D.C.
Thursday, July 22, 2004

Championing the Champions
The Science Coalition’s Breakfast of Champions
Cannon House Office Building, Washington, D.C.
Thursday, July 15, 2004

Security, Innovation, and Human Capital in the Global Interest
Center for Strategic and International Studies
1800 K Street, NW Washington, D.C.
Thursday, June 17, 2004

Sustaining our National Capacity for Discovery and Innovation
Business Roundtable
Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, June 16, 2004

Leadership to Sustain Our National Capacity for Innovation
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Monday, May 3, 2004

The Perfect Storm: A Weather Forecast
American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting
Seattle, Washington
Saturday, February 14, 2004

Engineering Education in the 21st Century
Society of Women Engineers
Birmingham, Alabama
Saturday, October 11, 2003

A Bridge to the Future:
The New Engineer: Demographic Issues and BEST Practices
Engineer of 2020
National Academies Conference Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Tuesday, September 3, 2002

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