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Personnel dilemma

The hiring of US science faculty members has slowed considerably. Karen Kaplan tracks the administrators who are trying to keep programmes intact.

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Kaplan, K. Personnel dilemma. Nature 458, 372–373 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7236-372a

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