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"We really value equally the technical ability of the candidate and their interpersonal leadership skills." - Vlatko Vlatkovic

Working with a professor and lab mates from back home make for an easier, more congenial experience than plunging into a strictly American cultural environment.

"I feel like I'm making a useful contribution not only to the company but to the environment," says chemical engineer John Ma of Dow Chemical Canada.

In 2000, NSF received about 3000 computer science proposals with a success rate of 30%. In 2004, the number of applications had risen to 6500 and the success rate had dropped to 16%.

Wind energy is clean, environmentally inert, and inexhaustible.

Doing a Ph.D. on visual interfaces and usability is particularly useful, he believes, because it allows him to understand what the consumers would like to use and to guess whether a new product would succeed or fail.

"Among the first adopters and co-creators of the Semantic Web have been scientists who see in the new approach the promise of content-based information retrieval, distributed data mining, and automated Web-service choreography."

Forgoing alarmist pronouncements, a National Academies committee makes sensible suggestions about how to address the workforce needs of the Department of Defense.

NASCAR is hiring mechanical engineers and aerodynamics scientists to shave milliseconds off lap times and push racecars to their limits.

Many Spanish trainees have been forced to start their doctorates without financial help.

The House Judiciary Committee invited experts to discuss the effects of high-skill immigration on the U.S. workforce, but there was little talk about what employers actually need.

The best and most popular stories of 2012, as chosen by readers and editors.

Recent political pronouncements would be laughable if they weren't potentially so harmful.

In Vienna, Eastern and central European scientists gathered to network and learn how to be more competitive for ERC grants.

Scientists with an ability to work across fields can find exciting opportunities in biomaterials.

As maps have changed, so have mapmakers.