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Employer Input Needed
Several Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the national capital region are creating an Alliance that will attract a highly diverse student population to a suite of PSM degree programs with creative linkages among them. They are conducting a very brief survey to gauge employer interest in and opinions about PSM degrees. Click here to take survey.

February 17, 2010: Graduation Gaps for Science Majors (Inside Higher Ed)

February 8, 2010: Skills For Success: Pharma firms are seeking adaptable scientists with the aptitudes to meet new business needs (Chemical & Engineering News)

January 2010: Is Graduate School for You? (The Mathematical Association of America)

January 2010: Science and Engineering Indicators provides quantitative insight into the breadth, quality, and vitality of the U.S and international science and engineering enterprises. The accompanying sidebar in the higher education chapter of the 2010 report describes why the PSM was developed and details its rapid growth. (National Science Board, 2010. Science and Engineering Indicators 2010. Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation (NSB 10-01)

December 9, 2009: Value of the PSM mentioned at a recent AAAS conference focusing on young scientists from the nation’s historically black colleges and universities (AAAS)

December 2009: Highlights of the Sixth Biennial Meeting of Professional Science Master’s Program Leaders (CGS Communicator)

November 6, 2009: Promoting Professional Science Master’s Degrees (Inside Higher Ed)

November 2009: Affiliation as a Professional Science Master's (PSM) Program (CGS Communicator)

September 2, 2009: The New York Times publishes letter from the Chair of the CGS PSM Advisory Board (The New York Times letter)

August 2009: Investing in STEM to Secure Maryland’s Future (Final Report of the Governor’s STEM Task Force mentioning the PSM. presented to Governor Martin O’Malley)

July 2009: Professional Science Master’s Update: The Internship Component (CGS Communicator)

July 3, 2009: Taken for Granted: An Alternative to the Ph.D. Track (Science Careers)

June 20, 2009: Professional master's in science is 21st century MBA (ScienceNews)

May 2009: A master's degree with a business spin gains popularity (Nature Medicine - sub. req.)

May 4, 2009: Needed: Professional Research Technicians: Government Funding Is Up, But Professionalism Still Suffers (Science Progress - Center for American Progress)

April 1, 2009: The Professional Science Master's: The MBA for Science (BioScience)

March 27, 2009: Professional Science Master’s: Programs Merit Wider Support (Science Magazine)

March 6, 2009: Taken for Granted: Shovel-Ready Science (Science Careers)

Winter 2009: So You Want to Work in Business?: Consider A Professional Science Master’s Degree (Association for Women in Science)

Winter/Spring 2009: The Professional Science Master’s Degree: An Integrated Interdisciplinary Degree for Scientists (SACNAS News)

February 14, 2009: AAAS: The New Masters of Science (ScienceNews)

February 10, 2009: Universities adjusting to meet new demands: More degree options becoming available based on shifts in employment landscape (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

January 2009: The M.A. in Applied Archaeology and Current Trends in Graduate Education (The SAA Archaeological Record)

PSM Programs

December 3, 2009: PSM, BEST are us at our best (Lake Oswego Review)

November 23, 2009: Skull yields its evidence in a CLAS lab (University of Connecticut)

November 2009: The Business of Science (Rice Magazine)

October 11, 2009: UCF partners with Embry: Universities create joint grad program (Central Florida Future)

July 2009: Oswego Chemistry Master’s Degree Adds Professional Track (Oswego County Today)

May 5, 2009: Professional Science Master’s program graduates first two students May 9 (University News - Appalachian State University)

March 25, 2009: U of I offering new bioenergy degree (The Register Mail)

March 24, 2009: New master's degree would focus on energy, fuels (TheSouthern.com)

March 20, 2009: University of Illinois Offers MS Degree in Bioenergy at College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (BioFuels Journal)

March 19, 2009: $1.7 million grant will prepare stem cell researchers (SF State News)

January 2009: PSM Alumni Profiles from Oregon State University (Oregon State University website)

January 2009: Science Plus Business: Introducing the Illinois Professional Science Master's (Online presentation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)