Foreign engineering students

Kristen M. Kulinowski, Optical Society of America/The International Society for Optical Engineering (OSA/SPIE) Congressional Science Fellow The graduate student population in chemistry is very diverse, not necessarily from American-born students, but from foreign-bom students. I worked with Chinese, Russians, Croatians, Indians, etc. Can you comment on the outcomes or results of having graduate students working in a naturally diverse community ... 

Some 34 percent of doctoral degrees in natural sciences (including the physical, biological, earth, ocean, and atmospheric sciences) and 56 percent of engineering Ph.D.s in the United States are awarded to foreign-born students. 

Is the relative decline of the U.S. CPI a national crisis Is the decline inevitable Is it caused by increased investing of U.S. firms abroad Selling technology abroad Training foreign students in chemistry and chemical engineering Can we stop these developments Should we ... 

US students. Current immigration policies combined with global skepticism about US foreign policy continue to threaten our capacity to attract outstanding students, scientists, and engineers from abroad. 

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