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Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) is one of the world's leading providers of systems integration and other technology services, including application development, data hosting, networking, and management consulting. It provides business process outsourcing (BPO) services in such areas as billing and payment processing, customer relationship management (CRM), and human resources. A major government and defense contractor, CSC generates about a third of its revenues from federal agencies.
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Founded in 1959, Computer Sciences Corporation is a leading global IT services company. CSC's mission is to provide customers in industry and government with solutions crafted to meet their specific challenges and enable them to profit from the advanced use of technology.
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Sciences Po has undergone myriad reforms under Richard Descoings, Director of Sciences Po (1997-present). Sciences Po has introduced a compulsory year abroad component to its undergraduate degree, and now offers a multilingual curriculum in French, English, and other languages. New educational sites have been set up in Nancy, Dijon, Poitiers, Menton and Le Havre. Sciences Po ... set the length of its undergradate program to three years and its graduate program to two years in line with the Bologna Process.
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Feb. 12, 2008:Members of the National Academy of Sciences have elected Jeremiah Ostriker as treasurer. Members Linda Bartoshuk, Rita Colwell, Judith Kimble, and Myriam Sarachik were elected to the NAS governing council.
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In 2000, Sciences Po set the length of its undergraduate program to three years and the length of its graduate program to two years in line with the Bologna Process. The first three years of study are referred to as the premiers cycles, which focuses on the full-range of the social sciences, particularly public policy, International Relations, economics and political economy, management studies, finance, geography, constitutional and administrative law, philosophy, and sociology. Students generally spend their third year of the premier cycle abroad, at one of Sciences Po's nearly 300 partner schools around the world. Students are... also given the option of spending the year interning for an institution related to their field of study. In addition to academics, Sciences Po's curriculum incorporates more practice-oriented skills like teamwork, effective oral communication and presentation skills, and nuturing leadership potential. Sciences Po's student-body is active, with more than seventy student clubs, councils, and organizations.
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Jan. 14, 2008:The National Academy of Sciences has chosen Norman P. Neureiter for its most prestigious award. Neureiter was selected for enhancing the status of science and technology in the U.S. State Department as the first science and technology adviser to the secretary of state and for spurring international cooperation in science and technology under U.S. leadership.
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