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I don't agree with Ron Breslow that medical school is the appropriate analogy. I am old enough to recall when doctors would say to a patient, "I am God and I know everything." Now they say, "I am one of many deities.
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In terms of interdisciplinarity, most junior faculty that I know are interdisciplinary in the way that they look at science. Stephen Berry noted that in the days of scientists such as Linus Pauling there was a greater degree of interdisciplinary thought than is witnessed today.
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Today, that amount is the same, yet I now pay my graduate students more than 150 percent of what I was paid as a research assistant, and the NSF postdoctoral program in the chemical sciences has been eliminated. Graduate students clearly see a difficulty in obtaining resources and witness the frustration of their advisors trying to garner funding at the expense of time and energy that otherwise could be used to pursue education and science.
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But we Americans live on a big island, and very few students go abroad except perhaps later in their careers. A good program at the undergraduate level is run by Professor James Boggs at the University of Texas at Austin, which allows undergraduate students in their junior or senior year to go to Europe.
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When we look at addressing graduate education, we need to make sure that we are not trvin~ to anolv exponential models to sinusoidal issues. Victor Vandell, Louisiana State University: I am a graduate student, and I might be the only one here.
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I would suggest that there has been a sincere effort to respond to the 1995 NSF discussion and the publications and suggestions that followed from it. I think that there is a great deal of interest across the country in issues associated with graduate education and a real recognition of the problems and opportunities.
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Otherwise, all we are going to have are these relatively small programs such as IGERT, which are not going to have a major impact on graduate education. Derrick Tabor, National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
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Look at George Washington Carver, who at the early part of this century made significant contributions to society, and more recently Henry Hill, who is annually recognized by the ACS at the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers meeting. These are only two of the many contributions of minority scientists in this country and the world to the advancement of science.
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