Taoiseach meets with Harvard president to discuss innovation
Posted in Governance and administration on July 1st, 2010 by steve
“The Taoiseach Brian Cowen TD met with the president of Harvard University yesterday as she visited Ireland. Dr Drew Faust is an eminent historian and the first female Harvard president. The main focus of discussion at the meeting between the Taoiseach and Dr Faust was the central role of higher education and research in driving economic growth and innovation …” (more)
[Jennifer Yau, Silicon Republic, 1 July]
“In a June 30 address to the Royal Irish Academy at Trinity College, Dublin, where she was made an honorary member (earlier, she also met with alumni), President Drew Faust reemphasized her vision of the place of research universities ‘in a changing and globalizing world’ …” (