Challenges in chemistry graduate education [electronic resource] : a workshop summary / Committee on Challenges in Chemistry Graduation Education, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2012.

1 online resource (1 PDF file (x, 86 p.)) : ill.

Chemistry graduate education is under considerable pressure. Pharmaceutical companies, long a major employer of synthetic organic chemists, are drastically paring back their research divisions to reduce costs. Chemical companies are opening new R & D facilities in Asia rather than in the United States to take advantage of growing markets and trained workforces there. Universities, especially public universities, are under significant fiscal constraints that threaten their ability to hire new faculty members. Future federal funding of chemical research may be limited as the federal budget tightens. All of these trends have major consequences for the education of chemistry graduate students in U.S. universities. To explore and respond to these intensifying pressures, the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology held a workshop in Washington, D.C., on January 23-24, 2012, entitled "Graduate Education in Chemistry in the Context of a Changing Environment."

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Print version: Challenges in chemistry graduate education. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2012

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May 23, 2013

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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Challenges in Chemistry Graduate Education.