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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, September 17, 1998
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Jobs in short supply for biosciences grads
By Carolyn Mollett
Kansan staff writer
A report released last week by the National Research Council said the number of life sciences doctoral recipients exceeded the number of research positions available in traditional settings of academia, industry and government.
The number of graduate students in biosciences at the University of Kansas has been regulated in the past couple of years to ensure job opportunities for graduates, said James Orr, chairman of the Division of Biological Sciences.
"To the graduate student and postdoctoral trainee who have invested many years of preparation with the expectation of having a research career, the situation is discouraging," according to the report, called Trends in the Early Careers of Life.
Orr said students needed to understand that career options were not limited to academia. Many bioscience Ph.D.s can find work in environmental science and in pharmaceuticals.
Linda Trueb, professor and director of graduate studies for the department of ecology and evolutionary biology, said the report probably was true nation wide but that the program at the University of Kansas was exceptional.
"There are always jobs and research programs available for the best." Trueb said.
Kristi Elliott / KANSAN
KU professors in biosciences also said that although they were aware of the shortage of research jobs, KU students had an advantage because the biological sciences departments here had increased the
number of Ph.D. graduates and continuously had updated their programs.
Nationally, a steep increase in the number of life sciences Ph.D.s began in 1987 with the influx of international Ph.D.s and Ph.D. candidates, according to the council's report.
Michael Greenfield, professor and chairman of the department of entomology, said there had been an increase in recent years in the number of international students seeking Ph.D.s. But he said the number of overall students seeking biosciences Ph.D.s had not increased at the University of Kansas.
Mark Richter, associate professor of biochemistry and former acting chairman of the molecular biosciences department, said that he was aware of job shortages and that he tried to limit the number of students in the department.
However, Richter said that his department and others were under pressure from the University to produce research. He said that because students accounted for the bulk of the research productivity, balance was required.
I think at KU we've managed to balance that pretty well," Richter said.
He said it was difficult to know exactly how many Ph.D.s were successful because the department's only information came from the success rate of job applicants.
"By and large, almost everyone gets a job," Richter said of KU students.
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