Career Magazine

"We're visual communicators and the target audience that we communicate with can be very different whether it's a jury in a courtroom or a high school student using a biology textbook, the level of information is very different," says Linda Wilson-Pauwels, Director, Biomedical Communications Program, University of Toronto.

The GEM Consortium -- a collaboration of 93 member universities and 48 corporations -- provides funding, a support network, mentoring, and professional development to underrepresented minority graduate students.

The difficulties facing Ph.D. graduates is not just because the supply and demand seems out of equilibrium; a lack of general awareness of where Ph.D.s can get employment in academic, industrial, and public service sectors is exacerbating the problem.