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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2003 95(8):579-580; doi:10.1093/jnci/95.8.579
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 95, No. 8, 579-580, April 16, 2003
© 2003 Oxford University Press

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Sluggish Visa Approval Process Hamstrings Scientific Conferences

James Schultz

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Free flow of information is the scientific community’s stock-in-trade. For the American knowledge economy, access to expertise is likewise essential. Roughly half the nation’s graduate students come from abroad, and many of the nation’s most skilled professionals in science and technology were born outside the United States. Impede or prevent knowledge exchange by placing restrictions on those who cross U.S. borders, and advocates contend there could eventually be substantial damage to the nation’s knowledge-based economic infrastructure.

According to a joint statement issued by Bruce Alberts, Ph.D., president of the National Academy of Sciences, William Wulf, Ph.D., president of the National Academy of Engineering, and Harvey Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D., president of the Institute of Medicine, "Recent efforts by our government to constrain the flow of international visitors in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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