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- From: dal3@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (dale.e.parson)
- Subject: Re: NSF and Shortages of Science and Mathematics
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.163829.1745@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- References: <1992Nov18.144128.23701@nscf.org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:38:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.144128.23701@nscf.org> fred@nscf.org (Fred Fenimore) writes:
- >I recently have seen some posts about the NSF report predicting a
- >shortage of scientists being discredited. Could someone please email me
- >some references? Even newspaper articles would be a good starting
- >place. Any help given would be greatly appreciated.
- >
- >
- >Fred Fenimore
-
- Below is some stuff on the "Young Scientists' Network", whose major
- mission is dealing with the fact the U.S. & other Western nations
- are pumping out science & engineering graduates that they do not
- subsequently employ in science & engineering. I believe the group was
- started by disgruntled physics Ph.D.'s, but there are plenty of other
- disgruntled scientists and engineers contributing to the mailing list.
- The postings are sort of bundled as a newsletter, with a table of contents, so
- it's pretty easy to just read the stuff that interests you. Plenty of
- questions about NSF here.
-
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-
- Welcome to the Young Scientists' Network
-
- The goals of this group are:
-
- 1) To let the press, public, and government officials know that there
- is no shortage of scientists.
-
- 2) To find traditional and non-traditional employment for scientists.
-
- Letters from and articles about our group have appeared on American
- Public Radio, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the New York
- Times, and Science. Our letters to the President in 1991 helped
- initiate a Congressional investigation of the NSF over the way it
- handled the 'shortage' reports, and a hearing was held April 8, 1992
- at which our founder, Kevin Aylesworth, testified. These hearings were
- written up in _Science_ Vol 256, (10 April 1992 p. 172) and the YSN
- was described in a _Science_ article Vol. 256 (1 May 1992 p. 606).
- The hearings were documented in _Nature_ Vol. 356 (16 April 1992 p. 553)
- and _Chemical & Engineering News_ Vol. 70 (13 April 1992)
-
- ...
-
- Messages for broadcast to the
- entire group should be sent to: ysn@zoyd.ee.washington.edu
-
-
- Kevin Aylesworth aylesworth@anvil.nrl.navy.mil
- 521 E. Duncan Ave. Alexandria, VA 22301
- General questions, or requests for
- anonymous posting: ysn-adm@zoyd.ee.washington.edu
-
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-
- Dale Parson, Bell Labs, dale@mhcnet.att.com
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