U.S. Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond, R-Mo., chats with students and faculty April 14 in Uncas A. Whitaker Hall for Biomedical Engineering. Bond was in town for a roundtable discussion on his efforts to prevent the loss of U.S.-educated international students with degrees in science, engineering and math to foreign companies. Bond recently introduced an amendment to immigration legislation to prevent high-tech graduates from being forced out of the country, a change necessary for the United States to keep its competitive edge in the global economy. “The United States demands invention and innovation to succeed,” Bond said. “This success requires our country to have the best and brightest minds fueling new products for U.S. workers to manufacture. It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers can’t get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st-century economy.”