On the 25th anniversary of publication, we post Jesse Ausubel’s 1992 essay “Intellectual Migrations and Global Universities,” which accurately foresaw saturation of domestic markets leading to aggressive globalization of USA universities.
Area of Research: The Scientific Enterprise
Community College Research Center 20th anniversary with Jill Biden
During 1996, on behalf of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Jesse Ausubel helped Prof. Thomas Bailey establish the Community College Research Center at Teachers College. The influential center celebrated its 20th anniversary on 17 November 2016 with a symposium highlighted by a talk by Dr. Jill Biden, 2nd Lady of the USA and professor at Northern Virginia Community College. For Jesse’s role, please watch minutes 10 to 18 of this video:
https://livestream.com/teacherscollegecolumbiauniversity/CCRC20
Below are TC President Susan Fuhrman, Prof. Bailey, Prof. Biden, Anne Ausubel (who worked at TC during the late 1960s and early 1970s), and Jesse Ausubel.
Leonardo DNA project
Team members of the project “Using New Anthropological and Biological Tools to Learn about Leonardo da Vinci” with seed money from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation met 2-3 May in Florence, Italy, and have issued a press release about the publication of a set of papers from the project in Human Evolution. Jesse Ausubel mediated the opening seminar on 2 May sponsored by Eugenio Giani, President of the Regional Council of Tuscany. Jesse’s introductory essay is here. The press release earned wide attention, for example,
BBC radio:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03tb7ht
Gizmodo, USA
The Brilliantly Insane Plan to Reconstruct Leonardo da Vinci’s Genome
https://gizmodo.com/the-brilliantly-insane-plan-to-reconstruct-leonardo-da-1774873148
Daily Telegraph, UK
Leonardo da Vinci paintings analysed for DNA to solve grave mystery
La Repubblica –
Leonardo, alla ricerca del Dna per ricostruire il profilo genetico: prelievi su tombe e dipinti
Jesse Ausubel, vice presidente della Fondazione Richard Lounsbery, che sta finanziando parte del progetto, spiega che dopo aver ricostruito la sequenza del Dna si proverà a ottenere “tracce biologiche che potrebbero essere rimaste nelle pitture o nelle …
Agencia EFE, Spain (Spanish)
INVESTIGADORES QUIEREN EL ADN DE LEONARDO DA VINCI PARA RECONSTRUIR AL GENIO (RESEARCHERS WANT THE DNA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI TO REBUILD THE GENIUS)