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Utilization of African American Physicists in the Science & Engineering Workforce
Pages 149-155

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... Throughout the 1990s the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) had been concerned about the lack of utilization of African-American physicists in national laboratories funded by the Department of Energy (DOE)
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From page 150...
... For comparison, African-Americans receive 2.5 percent of Ph.D.'s awarded to U.S. citizens in physics each year.1 He physics faculties across He United States.
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... . Thus the utilization of African-American physicists at the national laboratories is merely a reflection of their utilization on the contracting university campus.
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... Before moving to our proposed solutions and actions, we ask a rhetorical but important question: What should be the role of the DOE national laboratories in terms of training and developing American human scientific talent? At the April 2001 APS meeting, Dr.
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From page 153...
... Every attempt should be made to ensure that citizens of the United States can take advantage of their investment. We turn finally to proposed solutions and actions that should be taken to address the utilization problem at the national laboratories.
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... NSBP believes the DOE national laboratories are one entry ramp for African-Americans to enter the mainstream research community. Given the recalcitrance and intransigence of the laboratories in working with HBCUs, the NSBP recommends that Congress require 10 percent of the operating budget of the DOE laboratories be used to establish scientific relationships with HBCUs, HSIs, and tribal colleges, with the main rationale being that DOE should play a role in American science training.
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... There is no intensive program to train undergraduates and graduate students in the use of neutron sources and synchrotron light sources for scientific research, yet the DOE is investing a large portion of the budget of the Office of Science in the construction and operation of these facilities. Finally, we assert steadfastly that the Congress must exercise some oversight.
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