Breakout Groups Discussion Breakout Groups looked at reports from BIO Working Groups on Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellowships. Targeting should continue and should be followed up. Biosciences Related to Environment Program should be terminated. Minority Postdoctoral Program has been successful, half of the recipients have found jobs in academia. A web page lists them.
Group recommends the program continue but as a separate entity.
Disagreement within the group as to whether or not U.S.citizenship or permanent residence status should be a requirement. More emphasis should be placed on research training grants. With the faculty working together you get a much better training program. Plenty of journal clubs, cross-talk, etc., already exist in most graduate programs. Making teaching a part of your training is difficult in terms of getting the time to do so.