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Issues and Perspectives

Issues and Perspectives

Issues and Perspectives

Reshuffling Graduate Training

Nobelist Roald Hoffmann believes that taking graduate students off grants and giving them fellowships would be good for U.S. science. But others say such a radical change isn't in the cards.

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The Job Market

The Job Market

The Job Market

A Competitive Fellowship

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Diversity Issues

Diversity Issues

Diversity Issues

Diversity Remains Elusive for Flagship NSF Program

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Diversity Issues

Diversity Issues

Diversity Issues

NIH Wants Better Results From Minority Programs

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Diversity Issues

Diversity Issues

Diversity Issues

Do Minority-Training Programs Work?

Asked to assess the programs, the panel threw up its hands.

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Diversity Issues

Diversity Issues

Diversity Issues

U.S. Plans Suit to Stop Minority-Only Programs

The case is the latest skirmish in an ongoing battle over federal programs aimed at boosting the tiny percentage of Hispanics, African Americans, and Native Americans in the scientific workforce.

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Diversity Issues

Diversity Issues

Diversity Issues

A Glass Ceiling for Asian Scientists?

Asian scientists are a major presence in U.S. biomedical research labs. So why do so few hold leadership positions?

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Issues and Perspectives

Career Advice

NSF, Academics Told to Act As If They Mean It

The workshop supplemented a new report on national workforce policies from NSF's oversight body, the National Science Board, that laments what it calls an inadequate supply of domestic scientific talent.

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Issues and Perspectives

Issues and Perspectives

Issues and Perspectives

NIH Program Gives Minorities a Chance to Make Their MARC

Each year, MARC gives 700 talented undergraduates an intensive introduction to the life of a scientist, subsidizing their education, putting them to work in the lab, and offering one-on-one career counseling.

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Diversity Issues

Diversity Issues

Diversity Issues

Aid to Minority Schools is Political Hot Potato

A $250 million bill, proposed by Senator George Allen (R-VA), hopes to help African American, Native American, and Hispanic undergraduates, but it may jeopardize other NSF minority programs.

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Articles By Jeffrey Mervis

Reshuffling Graduate Training

A Competitive Fellowship

Diversity Remains Elusive for Flagship NSF Program

NIH Wants Better Results From Minority Programs

Do Minority-Training Programs Work?

U.S. Plans Suit to Stop Minority-Only Programs

A Glass Ceiling for Asian Scientists?

NSF, Academics Told to Act As If They Mean It

NIH Program Gives Minorities a Chance to Make Their MARC

Aid to Minority Schools is Political Hot Potato

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