Career Opportunities For Toxicologists On The Rise, With Demand For Their Expertise Rapidly Growing

Demand For Their Expertise Rapidly Growing Environmental awareness is a major factor in creating job openings in all employment markets for these specialists AUTHOR :MARCIA CLEMMITT, pp. 1, 9, 22 Young scientists emerging from graduate training programs in toxicology are having an easier time than most other science graduates in today's grueling job market, say toxicologists at universities throughout the United States. "Most--virtually all--[graduate students] have jobs six months b

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Demand For Their Expertise Rapidly Growing

Environmental awareness is a major factor in creating job openings in all employment markets for these specialists
AUTHOR :MARCIA CLEMMITT, pp. 1, 9, 22

Young scientists emerging from graduate training programs in toxicology are having an easier time than most other science graduates in today's grueling job market, say toxicologists at universities throughout the United States.

"Most--virtually all--[graduate students] have jobs six months before they graduate," says Bruce Fowler, director of the program in toxicology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, referring to students in his program, which currently has an enrollment of 30. "When you go to a conference, it's disconcerting to sit around tables with your graduate students and have people trying to hire them out from under you. But it's certainly nice for them."

Toxicology training program directors across the country report similar results for their students. Located primarily in university ...

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