no more NSF plant postdocs

[John C. Walker]

          intention of ending it.
>
>          3) We would like to hear suggestions for the new program. I
>          will say that I will insist on the foreign component. We
>          expect the few people we support in the program to become
>          tomorrow's world class leaders. In today's world and
>          surely tomorrow's that means being part of the global
>          scientific community. Having even a brief experience in a
>          foreign research setting is essential.
>
>                                      Mary E. Clutter


I agree that a experience in a foreign research setting is essential.  But
is it essential that it take place during a postdoctoral fellowship? How
many of the YPI (or whatever they are now called) recipients over the past
5 years have had a foreign postdoctorate?


John C. Walker
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