Gender disparities in college major choice are associated with the gender pay gap as well as an insufficiently large and diverse labor
pool of scientific talent in some of the highest - growing fields in our increasingly scientific global economy.
The late 1980s featured stark warnings of an impending
shortage of scientific talent based on a demographically driven formula for calculating the number of science and engineering Ph.D. s in a given cohort of college - age students.
These passageways, although largely invisible to Americans, appear to play a crucial role in determining the distribution
of scientific talent in this country.
Although NSF's budget rose in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the idea that the nation was facing a shortage
of scientific talent collapsed after a 1992 congressional inquiry pointed out its weak underpinnings.
That makes those institutions, potentially, an important
source of scientific talent, a place where, it is hoped, new scientific careers currently gestate.
More than 150 executives from biotech firms warn that new policies could hurt recruiting of scientific talent
Rather, there's a «tunnel» running between the Turkish capital and the Peach Tree City that carries a steady
stream of scientific talent direct from Middle Eastern Technical University (METU), Turkey's premier science institution, to the labs of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
But given that the government is introducing it, we've decided we should work with them to get it as effective as possible so we don't limit the
introduction of scientific talent coming from overseas.»
Developing a scientific community in the United States that is representative of the nation at large will unleash a
store of scientific talent that is currently not fully tapped.
With this community input in mind, the goal of the American Competitiveness in Chemistry - Fellowship program is to support the training of beginning, independent chemical scientists who are proficient at research that straddles the academic - industrial - national laboratory interfaces and at developing untapped
pools of scientific talent that exist in this country.
The essay ends on a similar note: «The nation's pool
of scientific talent hasn't been this shallow in decades... America's scientific, economic, and social well - being is at stake.»
Its goal is to ensure that there is a pool
of scientific talent that knows the commercialization process, as stated in promotional materials: «Students learn to catalyze development of basic life sciences research into useful new products, processes, and services.»
Southern University physicist Diola Bagayoko (pictured left) uses tough love to expand and diversify the pool
of scientific talent.
Dr. Chance groomed his students and junior research associates to their full potential on the basis
of scientific talent and capability regardless of their genders and national or racial origins.