Trends in the Early Careers of Life Scientists

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Table of Contents
Front Matter R1-R16
Executive Summary 1-10
Chapter 1 Introduction 11-20
Chapter 2 Education and Research Training of Life-Science PhDs 21-32
Chapter 3 Early-Career Employment Profiles of Life-Science PhDs 33-48
Chapter 4 Opportunities, Constraints, and Future Needs 49-62
Chapter 5 Implications of the Findings 63-78
Chapter 6 Conclusions and Recommendations 79-90
Alternative Statement on Recommendation 3: Henry Riecken 91-94
Appendix A Biographic Information 95-96
Appendix B Participants in Public Meeting 97-98
Appendix C Sources of Data 99-102
Appendix D Doctoral Fields Included for Data Analysis 103-104
Appendix E Data Tables for Chapter 2 105-130
Appendix F Data Tables for Chapter 3 131-176
Appendix G Getting Started on the World Wide Web: Web Sites of Interest to Young Scientists 177-180

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Committee on Dimensions, Causes, and Implications of Recent Trends in the Careers of Life Scientists Liaison Group

National Science Foundation,

Arlington, Virginia

Jim Edwards

Joanne Hazlett

Carlos Kruytbosch

National Institutes of Health,

Bethesda, Maryland

Jeffrey Evans

John Norvell

Walter Schaffer

Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies,

Nashville, Tennessee

Georgine Pion

Association of American Medical Colleges,

Washington, DC

Jennifer Sutton

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology,

Bethesda, Maryland

Howard Garrison

Council of Graduate Schools,

Washington, DC

Peter Syverson

The American Society for Cell Biology,

Bethesda, Maryland

Elizabeth Marincola

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