Conservationist Carl Safina says “Longevity in captivity is not a measure of well-being or emotional experience. People can live to old age in prisons and so can dolphins." Moreover, he likens SeaWorld keeping the animals in captivity to a school shooting that inspires copycats, since, he says, the capture of orcas is on the rise in China.
Not only can forgiving student loans lighten the burden for millions of people, it can also raise the GDP by between $86 billion and $108 billion per year, says Dr. Stephanie Kelton.
Dr. Peter Tonge discovered a new technique to illustrate how the structure of a protein changes based on its activation by light could advance biology and medicine research.
Samir Das is a recognized expert in mobile and wireless networking technologies and a widely cited author in related disciplines. He co-authored an internet protocol on routing on wireless ad hoc networks. He served on editorial boards of major journals on computer networking and wireless and mobile networking, including IEEE Transactions on Networking and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He also chaired the technical program committees of premier conferences such as ACM MobiCom and ACM MobiHoc. He is a past NSF CAREER award winner.
