キャリアニュース2020年3月27～4月1日

Four years after I received tenure, the dean of science at my primarily undergraduate institution called to tell me he planned to retire. “I'm recommending you as my replacement,” he said. I didn't think much of it until a few months later, when the provost and president asked to speak with me. They said they thought I was a strong candidate for dean and asked whether I was interested. I was flattered. But I wondered, “Why me? Why now?” I was a relatively young faculty member, and I would have to oversee academics in disciplines well outside my own. I wasn't sure I was qualified—or whether I wanted such a drastic change in my professional life. > “The dean position [gave] me a chance to have a wider impact.” I loved my job. I could not wait to come to campus every day. I enjoyed the classes I was teaching. And I was midway through a federal research grant, with a lab full of talented and enthusiastic undergraduate research students. We were publishing in good journals and presenti

Restrictive immigration policies and new protections against foreign government influence on research have American scientists concerned about their ability to attract foreign talent to their laboratories and to collaborate with international colleagues, experts said in sessions throughout the American Association for the Advancement of Science's 2020 Annual Meeting. At the meeting, held 13–16 February in Seattle, Washington, AAAS launched the Science Beyond Borders program to collect stories of immigrant scientists practicing and studying in the United States, to inform ongoing advocacy with the U.S. government and academic institutions to support foreign researchers. The program, an initiative of the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy and Office of Government Relations, grew out of concerns that travel restrictions, shortened visa stays and visa denials, and investigations into foreign researchers were having a negative effect on the U.S. research enterprise, said Joanne Padrόn Carn