Michael Hicks

1 month ago | kokomotribune.com | Michael Hicks

As recently as 1900, American colleges and universities educated too few students and did too little research. One way to gauge that is to examine the Nobel Laureates in the physical sciences — chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine. The awards began in 1901, and over the next two decades only two Americans received the prize, one of whom was an immigrant. We won two more in the 1920s, which is a poor showing for a large, prosperous world power. Then things began to accelerate.

1 month ago | freep.com | Michael Hicks

As recently as 1900, American colleges and universities educated too few students and did too little research. One way to gauge that is to examine the Nobel Laureates in the physical sciences — chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine. The awards began in 1901, and over the next two decades only two Americans received the prize, one of whom was an immigrant. We won two more in the 1920s, which is a poor showing for a large, prosperous world power. Then things began to accelerate.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Michael Hicks

As recently as 1900, American colleges and universities educated too few students and did too little research. One way to gauge that is to examine the Nobel Laureates in the physical sciences — chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine. The awards began in 1901, and over the next two decades only two Americans received the prize, one of whom was an immigrant. We won two more in the 1920s, which is a poor showing for a large, prosperous world power. Then things began to accelerate.

1 month ago | indystar.com | Michael Hicks

As recently as 1900, American colleges and universities educated too few students and did too little research. One way to gauge that is to examine the Nobel Laureates in the physical sciences — chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine. The awards began in 1901, and over the next two decades only two Americans received the prize, one of whom was an immigrant. We won two more in the 1920s, which is a poor showing for a large, prosperous world power. Then things began to accelerate.

1 month ago | kokomotribune.com | Michael Hicks

The economic forces that built American cities have disappeared. These fundamental economic changes left in their wake two types of places — those that adapted and those that did not. What caused them to adapt was the education level their citizens possessed, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the Rust Belt. Before the Industrial Revolution, cities grew along trade routes in places easily defended from armed conflict. Most of the world’s great cities were created by the same forces.