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Collision Course

机译:碰撞课程

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Dave Schmitz spent the early part of last year's Christmas holiday at home in Chicago, poring over his graduate thesis and postdoc fellowship application essays. It was a big career step for Schmitz, a neutrino physicist about to finish his PhD at Columbia University in New York. He was writing a five-page research statement, part of the application for the Lederman Fellowship, a prestigious postdoc position at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. Then the budget news broke. On 19 December, the US Congress passed a year-end spending bill that devastated the high-energy-physics community, reducing its budget by $94 million (see Nature 451,2-3; 2007). Within days, Fermilab announced that it would lay off around 200 employees - about 10% of its staff. It also mandated that all staff take a week of unpaid leave every other month.,Stunned, Schmitz e-mailed the head of the fellowship selection committee to ask her if he should even bother applying. "Do I want to start my career at a place that's having such difficulty?" he recalls thinking. "It gave me serious pause, and made me think that maybe I should consider something else."
机译:戴夫·施米茨(Dave Schmitz)去年圣诞节假期的初期在芝加哥在家中度过,研究了他的研究生论文和博士后研究金申请论文。对于即将在纽约哥伦比亚大学完成博士学位的中微子物理学家施密茨来说,这是迈出了重要的一步。他正在撰写一份五页的研究声明,这是Lederman Fellowship申请的一部分,Lederman Fellowship是伊利诺伊州巴达维亚费米国家加速器实验室的著名博士后职位。然后预算新闻爆发了。 12月19日,美国国会通过了一项年终支出法案,该法案摧毁了高能物理领域,使预算减少了9,400万美元(请参阅《自然》 451,2-3; 2007年)。几天之内,费米实验室宣布将裁员约200名员工,约占员工的10%。它还要求所有工作人员每隔一个月休一个星期的无薪假。施米茨惊讶地通过电子邮件向研究金甄选委员会的负责人询问她是否应该再申请。 “我想在一个如此困难的地方开始我的职业吗?”他回忆起思考。 “这给了我严重的停顿,让我觉得也许我应该考虑其他事情。”

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    《Nature》 |2008年第7210期|p.258-259|共2页
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