The data presented in this report were collected in the 20th annual National Science Foundation/National Institutes of Health Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering, covering 1991. The survey universe is composed of all U.S. institutions with departments or programs offering courses of study at the…

This fact sheet provides information on whether foreign students who earn doctoral degrees in the United States in scientific or engineering fields remain in the United States after receiving their doctorates. The information was obtained from a 1985 National Science Foundation report (NSF 86-305) titled "Foreign Citizens in U.S. Science and…

A recent spate of negative tenure decisions has chemists discussing some of the trade-offs of careers in academia or the chemical industry. One point noted is that a majority of the negative tenure decisions involved individuals who entered academia without the usual one or two years of postdoctoral research. (JN)

This formal report from the Committee on Careers in Physiology of the American Physiological Society summarizes important aspects related to predoctoral and postdoctoral training programs and career opportunities in physiology. (CS)

This report is concerned with graduate science and engineering education, particularly dealing with enrollment and with sources of funding. Drawn from the survey of Graduate Science Student Support, analyses reveal distributions of full-time graduate students by source of major support and changing patterns in support and utilization of graduate…

Discusses unpaid postdoctoral researchers, especially those in biology and medicine, addressing reasons why they work without pay, how they receive funding, efforts to help them, their impacts on the field, and personal concerns. (DC)

In 2002, National Center for Education Research (NCER) began with three research grant competitions--one focused on reading instruction, one on preschool curricula, and one on student learning from a cognitive science perspective. These competitions resulted in a total of 24 research grants. Since that auspicious beginning, the grant competitions…

This report is the third in a series of annual studies directed to institutions granting Ph.D. degrees in science in the United States and to their medical school components. Both Ph.D. and masters students are included in the 354-institution survey. Information gathered reveals that fall 1974 graduate science enrollment in institutions of higher…

Examines the postdoctoral buildup between 1973 and 1977 and its implications for the Ph.D. candidate planning a career in a biomedical field. The effect of the continued growth in postdoctorals on biomedical research, research training and employment opportunities is also investigated. (HM)

Announces the introduction of a refresher course designed to expose senior chemists to modern organic chemistry, delving into such topics as new synthetic methods, molecular orbital theory, heterocyclic and organometallic chemistry, and C-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry, offered at the University of Florida in Gainesville in March 1981.…

Discusses the relationship between graduate and postgraduate training at universities, and industry needs. Describes university activities and the organization of university research in comparison to industry. Mentions three programs which have been undertaken in Denmark to integrate postgraduate training with industrial experience. (CW)

This report includes statistical data concerning the approximately 2,000 physicists and astronomers holding post-doctoral positions in 1973. The data cover the following areas: (1) demographic and background characteristics - sex, place of birth and citizenship, and years from degree; (2) employment characteristics - type of employer, salaries,…

Two National Research Council studies investigate the growing number of postdoctoral trainees, particularly in the biomedical fields, and the implications of this postdoctoral pool growth for federal support of pre- and postdoctoral research training. (BB)

The data presented in this book are derived from the Fall 1999 National Science Foundation/National Institute of Health (NSF/NIH) Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering. The published data represent estimates of total enrollment in science and engineering programs in approximately 11,833 graduate departments at…