Lots going on in this week's issue:
- Surely it means something that Indian pharmaceutical company Piramal is ending its drug discovery efforts in India? How odd. (article by Jean-François Tremblay)
- Enjoyed reading about Samantha Arnett, Ph.D. bioinorganic chemist and the State Department's Biosecurity Engagement Program's manager. (article by Deirdre Lockwood) (registration required)
- I found this letter by Martin Feldman of Howard University very interesting and a rather pointed critique of this letter by Professor Rigoberto Hernandez.
- Quite a number of interesting findings in this ACS survey on graduate student satisfaction (article by Linda Wang.) Amusing that 20% of people find their stipends financially difficult -- what do the other 80% think?
- It seems pretty clear to me that the ACS really, really wants to get involved with the Chinese Chemical Society -- I wonder what the internal discussion has been about.
Martin Feldman is the voice of reason.
ReplyDeleteThey highlighted the NIH funded disciplines. From my own (selfish) perspective they didn't mention that the NSF has funding at about 1/8th of that, and they have to run an Antarctic base.
ReplyDeleteAnd not just "young" scientists.
ReplyDeleteThe most disappointing part of the ACS survey is that "more male students than female students reported that their advisers helped them advance professionally."
ReplyDeleteAmusing that 20% of people find their stipends financially difficult -- what do the other 80% think? - the other 80% have friends in Humanities grad programs thus know they could be even worse off.
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