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"Researchers at NIST who hail from outside the US are scrambling to find new
projects, new labs, new jobs, and even new countries. They are responding to
diffuse information that noncitizens are to be limited to three-year stints at
NIST, and the clock is retroactive. James Kushmerick, director of NIST’s
Physical Measurement Laboratory, confirmed the new policy at a 4 February town
hall meeting, according to several researchers at NIST’s Boulder, Colorado,
campus.
NIST, an agency under the Department of Commerce, is a world leader in
precision and quantum measurements. Some 2800 employees plus 3200 visiting
associates work at its Gaithersburg, Maryland headquarters; another 560
employees and 940 visiting associates are based in Boulder. Of those workers,
several hundred are not US citizens, according to estimates by NIST
researchers. (The campus totals are from NIST’s website; the institute did not
respond to questions about the numbers of directly affected individuals or
about the new policy.) Given that obtaining a PhD often extends to five years
and beyond, graduate students will be hardest hit by the restrictions.
As this article was published, the situation was still in flux, and NIST
scientists and their colleagues say that hints of flexibility give them hope
that the policy will be weakened."
Via Kenny Chaffin.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
