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Biggest Need for New Jersey’s STEM Future: Keeping Our Talent Here

An op-ed by Dean J. Paranicas, HINJ President and Chief Executive Officer and Anthony S. Cicatiello, President of the R&D Council of New Jersey

In the 1950s, the Russian launch of Sputnik was the seminal event that got Americans of that generation to focus on science and technology, attracting students to those disciplines who would help make the U.S. the innovation center of the world. The COVID pandemic can be this generation’s seminal event for the next wave of advances in medical research in science, technology, engineering and math — or, what we now call STEM. Read the full op-ed here.