Saturday, January 12, 2013

U.S. to Hire Chief of Scientific Workforce Diversity

The Obama Administration will make history by hiring the government’s first “Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity” to mastermind a multi-million-dollar effort that boosts the number of minorities in biomedical research and slashes discrimination in the federal grant process.
The $500 million initiative to racially diversify medical research was launched last year after a government-sanctioned study uncovered a “disturbing and disheartening” lack of racial diversity in the field.  Especially troubling are Uncle Sam’s discriminatory funding practices when it comes to distributing federal research grants, the study found.

Read more: http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2013/01/u-s-to-hire-chief-of-scientific-workforce-diversity/

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