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The US economy relies on the productivity, entrepreneurship, and creativity of its people. This book explains that eliminating gender bias in academia requires immediate overarching reform, including decisive action by university administrators, professional societies, federal funding agencies and foundations, government agencies, and Congress.

America's research universities have undergone striking change in recent decades, as have many aspects of the society that surrounds them. This change has important implications for the heart of every university: the faculty. To sustain their high level of intellectual excellence and their success in preparing young people for the various roles they will play in society, universities need to be aware of how evolving conditions affect their abi...

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The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited builds on the 2000 report Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers. That ground-breaking report assessed the postdoctoral experience and provided principles, action points, and recommendations to enhance that experience. Since the publication of the 2000 report, the postdoctoral landscape has changed considerably. The percentage of PhDs who pursue postdoctoral training is growing ...

The primary federal program designed to ensure that all states are capable of participating the nation's research enterprise fall under the general rubric of the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCOR). This book assesses the effectiveness of EPSCOR.

Presents the summary of two workshops hosted by the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and Institute of Medicine in February and May, 2013.

Most of the awards made by NSF are to individuals or to small groups of scientists and engineers.

Examines interdisciplinary research efforts and recommends ways to stimulate and support such research. This report identifies steps that researchers, teachers, students, institutions, funding organizations, and disciplinary societies can take to effectively conduct, facilitate, and evaluate interdisciplinary research programs and projects.

In 2004, an ad hoc committee was charged with preparing this third report examining the most senior S&T, appointments to federal government positions and updating the accompanying list of the most urgent S&T, presidential appointments. Sufficient changes have occurred since the National Academies 2000 report on presidential appointments?including the 2001 terrorist attacks, the anthrax deaths, the reorganization of homeland-security activities...

As digital technologies are expanding the power and reach of research, they are also raising complex issues. These include complications in ensuring the validity of research data, standards that do not keep pace with the high rate of innovation, restrictions on data sharing that reduce the ability of researchers to verify results and build on previous research, and huge increases in the amount of data being generated, creating severe challenge...