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3 Producing the Right Technical and Professional Science Workforce: Ensuring Inclusivity, Increasing Diversity, and Improving Training
3 Producing the Right Technical and Professional Science Workforce: Ensuring Inclusivity, Increasing Diversity, and Improving Training
Pages 17-22
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Children know and worry about emerging infectious diseases, climate change, poverty, and shortages of food and water; when they see how scientists can help solve such problems, they get excited about becoming scientists themselves. "Never has there been a more important time to be a scientist or engineer." Whether in food, water, health care, climate change, infectious diseases, or many other fields, "there's never been a point where we have the opportunity to make a bigger impact." 17
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"As scientists and engineers who are already in the field, it's up to us to help lift young people up." -- Angela Belcher PREPARING EVERYONE TO CONTRIBUTE The son of Ghanian immigrants, Kafui Dzirasa, who is now associate professor at Duke University and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, was an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he joined a scholarship program originally geared toward increasing the number of African American men getting Ph.D.'s in the sciences. As an undergraduate, he got so interested in biomedical engineering that he decided to get an M.D.-Ph.D.
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Second, how can graduate research institutions produce the best science and technology? Together, these two questions "traverse the whole pathway to have at least a response, if not an answer, to this challenging topic." To produce the science and technology workforce needed for the future, society needs to align K–16 science teaching, including the teaching that goes on in historically Black colleges and universities, tribal colleges, and minority-serving institutions, with two things, said Yamamoto: the innate scientist in all humans, and the capacity and imperative for science and technology to address existential societal challenges.
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"We need to pull back from that and think about replacing those incentives with those that reward doing the best science and being the best science citizens." BARRIERS TO OVERCOME During the discussion period, the panelists discussed some of the greatest barriers to overcome in broadening the STEM workforce. To incorporate not just people from diverse backgrounds but the ideas generated by a wider range of people requires challenging dominant frameworks in science, said Dzirasa.
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Chairwoman Johnson's remarks underscore the need for supporting a diverse workforce highlighted by the CHIPS and Science Act. BOX 3-1 Statement by Texas Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson Last month, as you know, the CHIPS and Science Act was signed into law.
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