Born in 1766 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, a descendant of an Englishman who came to America in 1631, Perkins was a gifted and prolific inventor who had very little formal schooling. He was apprenticed to a goldsmith at age thirteen, took over his...

Maggie Koerth-Baker, Contributing Editor The greening of an architecture firm It's been more than 70 years since Larry Perkins and Philip Will founded Perkins & Will in Chicago. The ampersand in the logo has been replaced by a plus sign, but...

With the 106th Congress just around the corner and our Perkins reauthorization finally complete, we have a great opportunity to look beyond the Perkins Act and assess what we need to achieve in other pieces of federal legislation. The elections in November...