Congratulations, Graduates

 

I just left Troy, New York where I delivered the commencement address at the Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute’s (RPI). It’s an amazing university – the nation’s oldest technological university – and it’s headed by the incomparable Shirley Jackson: a physicist, member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and former head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as well as a leading voice on science policy. In my talk, I urged the Class of 2010 to always be empirical as they tackle the problems facing us today, and to be resilient as they make their way through life. For more details, read the whole speech here.