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Random Samples NPA leaders (from left) Karen Christofferson, Carol Manahan, Raymond Clark, Claudina Aleman Stevenson, Orfeu Buxton, Avi Spears, and (not pictured) Arti Patel.
CREDIT: LAUREL HAAK U.S. postdocs--who make up what the National Academy of Sciences once called "the invisible university"--now have an advocate. Backed by a $450,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) hopes to represent this 50,000-plus corps of young scientists. In addition to magnifying the efforts of some 70 campus-based groups, NPA will tackle national issues, including reform of tax and immigration laws. "They are the country's new generation of scientists, and they need to be treated properly," says Michael Teitelbaum of Sloan, which this month awarded an 18-month grant to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes Science) to help launch the association. The group (nationalpostdoc.org) is already planning an annual meeting 14 to 15 March in Berkeley, California, and is seeking an executive director with experience in building a membership organization. "We're not going to be lobbyists," insists steering committee member Carol Manahan, president of the postdoc association at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. "We have enough to do just trying to educate government agencies, professional societies, and higher-education groups about the problems facing postdocs."
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