The Committee on Evaluation of Trends in Agricultural Research at the Doctoral and Postdoctoral Level was established to analyze issues related to the next generation of agricultural scientists. This report contains the findings, conclusions, and recommendations regarding the status and future needs of agricultural scientists. This report focuses…

Recent polls seem to indicate that many Americans rely on television as a credible and primary source of news. To test the accuracy of this news, a study examined three networks' newscasts of science news, the attitudes of the science sources toward reporting in their field, and the factors related to accuracy. The Vanderbilt News Archives Index…

Recent studies have revealed that a large percentage of the public believes that science is of great importance, but that the public's basic science knowledge is woefully lacking. These studies highlight a vexing problem: how can scientists, through the mass media, enlighten the tax-paying populace to their work, given that a sound foundation in…

This document contains validated activities and competencies needed by information professionals working as records and information managers. The activities of information professionals are listed by function: records and information program management; systems analysis; records center administration; general administration; planning; financial…

This document contains validated activities and competencies needed by information professionals working in an information service company. The activities and competencies are organized according to the functions which information professionals in such companies perform: project management; reference/analysis of secondary data; research, analysis,…

Recent recruiting experiences of firms that employ scientific and engineering (S/E) personnel were determined in a followup to a 1981 survey. The following industries, which employ almost three-fourths of the scientists and engineers in private industry, were included in the survey: mining, construction, petroleum refining and extraction,…

This report provides projections of the employment of scientists, engineers, technicians, and other occupations for the civilian nuclear industry through the year 2000. Low, medium, and high projections are provided. In all cases, a substantial number of job openings are anticipated to fill needs created by employment growth, retirement, death,…

Since the birth of chemistry as a discipline in the 19th century, chemists have always been the "bomb-makers." Traditionally, this has been part of the allure for students for the "central science." Even students who will never be scientists consider chemistry for their science elective in part because chemists are the ones who…

Presents a re-evaluation of the level of unemployment among bioscientists from a new analysis of the data collected in the 1973 manpower survey conducted by the American Institute of Biological Sciences. (JR)

Discusses the efforts made in the late 1960's to involve physicists in political and social affairs and the movement for creation of the Forum on Physics and Society in the American Physical Society. Included are descriptions of the future prospects and new projects of the Forum. (CC)

Decisive changes in the history of rhetoric occurred with the publication of Francis Bacon's "Advancement of Learning" and "De augmentis scientiarum" and "Leviathan" by Thomas Hobbes. Bacon and Hobbes responded to the problem of eloquence common to scientists in the early seventeenth century, which centered on three…

This newsletter contains items of interest to anyone concerned with science and society issues. The first section of this issue contains 25 news and communication items including announcements or descriptions of study opportunities, projects, conferences and programs as well as investigations and research into the social issues of science. The…

The changing role of the physical scientist in society is traced from the first atomic bomb explosion in the New Mexican desert in 1945 to the present. Both the good and bad points of the changes brought upon the world by the rapid development of nuclear energy are discussed. (BT)

Presents the idea that citation analysis of a researcher's published papers is the best measure of the scientist's competence and stature and illustrates the predictive ability of this system in identifying individuals who may make a major impact on science. Presents a brief analysis of journals cited. (GS)