The state has little experience with semiconductors, but the Biden administration has promised to unleash opportunity in “the heartland of America” through the $52 billion CHIPS Act.
It was quiet at the Fairleigh Dickinson University campus in New Jersey the day after its basketball team pulled off a stunning upset in the men’s N.C.A.A. tournament. But it’s often quiet there.
As the 16th-seeded Knights celebrated their improbable defeat of top-seeded Purdue, players and coaches reflected on how their style was developed at St. Thomas Aquinas, a nearby college in Division II.