Access

News Feature

Nature 438, 278-279 (17 November 2005) | doi:10.1038/438278a; Published online 16 November 2005

Chinese students in the US: Taking a stand

Geoff Brumfiel1

  1. Geoff Brumfiel is Nature's Washington DC physical sciences correspondent.
Top

A protest by Chinese graduate students at Yale University has revealed the plight of a vulnerable workforce in US labs. Geoff Brumfiel investigates.

Last month, Xuemei Han was at her wit's end. A second-year graduate student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, she was facing expulsion.

MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS
These links to content published by NPG are automatically generated

NEWS AND VIEWS
Obituary: Robert E. Apfel (1943–2002)
Nature Materials News and Views (01 Nov 2002)