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Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United States Commitee on Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United States, Board on Higher Education and Workforce, National Research Council ISBN: 0-309-54940-X, 196 pages, 6 x 9, (2005) This free PDF was downloaded from: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11289.html Visit the National Academies Press online, the authoritative source for all books from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council: • Download hundreds of free books in PDF • Read thousands of books online, free • Sign up to be notified when new books are published • Purchase printed books • Purchase PDFs • Explore with our innovative research tools Thank you for downloading this free PDF. 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Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United States http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11289.html COMMITTEE ON POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARS IN THE UNITED STATES PHILLIP A. GRIFFITHS (Chair), Professor of Mathematics, School of Mathematics, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey WILLIAM G. AGNEW, Director of Programs and Plans (retired), General Motors, Washington, Michigan JOHN A. ARMSTRONG, Vice President for Science and Technology (retired), IBM Corporation, Amherst, Massachusetts RICHARD B. FREEMAN, Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics, Harvard University; and Director, Labor Studies Program, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts ALICE P. GAST, Robert T. Haslam Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, and Vice President for Research and Associate Provost, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts JOEL MOSES, Institute Professor, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and Professor of Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts NORMAN NEUREITER, Director, Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC PREM PAUL, Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska SAMUEL H. PRESTON, Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ELSA REICHMANIS, Director, Bell Laboratories Materials Research Department, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey ROBERT C. RICHARDSON, Vice Provost for Research and Floyd Newman Professor of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York LEWIS SIEGEL, Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Dean of the Graduate School, and Professor of Biochemistry, Duke University; and Chair, Council of Graduate Schools, Durham, North Carolina PAULA STEPHAN, Professor, Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia MICHAEL TEITELBAUM, Program Director, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New York, New York MARVALEE WAKE, Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California iv Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United States http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11289.html Principal Project Staff LAUREL L. HAAK, Study Director PETER H. HENDERSON, Collaborating Board Director JAMES A. VOYTUK, Collaborating Senior Program Officer ALAN ANDERSON, Consultant and Senior Writer NORMAN GROSSBLATT, Senior Editor SHADEEQUA MILLER, Program Assistant JUDY GOSS, Senior Program Assistant SARAE BAUSCH, Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellow CHRISTINA TAT, Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellow ERIC ZIMMERMAN, Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy