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Outcomes and Impacts of the National Science Foundation’s Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Program--Carter Kimsey
Pages 106-110

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From page 106...
... There are four aspects of NSF that constrain the agency's ability to conduct evaluations that are important to understanding evaluation activities of the Directorate for Biological Sciences. The first is that NSF is not a biomedical research agency.
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From page 107...
... This paper describes one of the evaluations conducted by the Directorate for Biological Sciences through a contract to SRI International to examine outcomes and impacts of the Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MPRF) program.
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From page 108...
... Also, fellows' subsequent success with NIH and NSF awards was documented. It is important to remember that the MPRF program has two parts: a biological sciences part and a social and behavioral sciences and economics part.
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... These included one CAREER award and one ADVANCE award. TABLE 1 Current Employment of Former BIO and SBE Fellows Current Employment BIO Fellows SBE Fellows Major Research University 35 12 Other University or Medical School 37 4 Private Sector 19 2 Federal Agency 7 0 Total 98 18
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... However, the national pool of minority scientists is so low that not much of an increase in applications is expected. The number of minority doctorates in the biological sciences grew slowly from 139 in 1989 to 320 in 2000.
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