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"The long-term goal is to prepare [underrepresented minorities] to become those critical staff scientists that we need for the future workforce, hopefully here [at ORNL]." –Debbie McCoy, RAMS Program Administrator.

NOAA Fisheries, based in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, has a long history of fostering minority development in the sciences.

"Even if you are not doing science when you are an advisor, you definitely bring your training as a scientist to the table – and this can be of great benefit," says Nancy Kingsbury, Science Advisor at Natural Resources Canada.

Assamagan has dedicated his career to developing detectors and software to explore still-uncharted areas of particle physics.

Lewis, who trained as a geoscientist to doctoral level, describes her work at Dstl as 'research, but a different kind of research.'

If successful, Jackson’s current mission of developing a more secure method of transferring information using a single photon would revolutionize information technology.

"We can basically go into a terrorist's apartment and confirm that he had in his possession nuclear material."

Out on a mountain, Mather says, "you have to work with the situation" and solve the practical difficulties as best you can.

"It's our way to articulate not only the importance of integration of teaching and research but also to communicate that the Canadian community is really making great strides in science education as well as in scientific research," explains James Gentile, President of Research Corporation.

The National Institute for Nanotechnology is an integrated, multidisciplinary institution involving researchers in physics, chemistry, engineering, biology, informatics, pharmacy, and medicine.

Early-Stage Training fellowships offer Ph.D. researchers the opportunity to pursue specialised training for a period of 3 months to 3 years as part of their doctoral training.

The couple started looking "around in the world [to see] where we could both have nice positions," and they found what they were looking for in Spain.

Once they are in, young employees often state how surprised they are at how high tech, innovative, and environmentally-friendly today's steel industry is.

“Our goal is to begin to influence the new crop of African academics that can then engage with colleagues here to develop long-lived collaborative relationships.”—Michael Adewumi

"Nothing panned out for years, but [the techniques] did come to fruition. You have to make the investment." --Andrea Ghez

“We are looking for people who have a history of publishing and presenting. If the résumé doesn’t have those two key elements, they’ll be at a competitive disadvantage.” - Ron Webb, Procter and Gamble

Sander van Zuijlen and Hester Bijl turned their differences into strengths as they moved from student and mentor to scientific collaborators.

"Real-world experience trumps classroom learning, and future employers don't care if the experience was paid or volunteer."

A CIFRE agreement "is a good way of ... doing research and keeping other doors open," says Sylvain Schwartz.