{"id":77491,"date":"2025-07-08T00:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T04:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=77491"},"modified":"2025-07-08T00:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T04:02:37","slug":"turbulent-research-landscape-imperils-us-brain-gain-%e2%88%92-and-ultimately-american-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/turbulent-research-landscape-imperils-us-brain-gain-%e2%88%92-and-ultimately-american-prosperity\/","title":{"rendered":"Turbulent research landscape imperils US brain gain \u2212 and ultimately American prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77492\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/saveScience.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/saveScience.jpg 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/saveScience-250x167.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite representing only\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/world-population\/us-population\/\">4% of the world\u2019s population<\/a>, the United States accounts for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/public.opendatasoft.com\/explore\/dataset\/nobel-prize-laureates\/table\/?disjunctive.category\">over half of science Nobel Prizes<\/a>\u00a0awarded since 2000, hosts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/interdisciplinary-science-rankings\">seven of The Times Higher Education Top 10 science universities<\/a>, and incubates firms such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/companies\/alphabet\/\">Alphabet (Google)<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/companies\/meta-platforms\/\">Meta<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandviewresearch.com\/industry-analysis\/biotechnology-market\">Pfizer<\/a>\u00a0that turn federally funded discoveries into billion-dollar markets.<\/p>\n<p>The domestic STEM talent pool alone cannot sustain this research output. The U.S. is reliant on a steady and strong influx of foreign scientists \u2013 a brain gain. In 2021, foreign-born people constituted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ncses.nsf.gov\/pubs\/nsb20243\/key-takeaways\">43% of doctorate-level scientists and engineers in the U.S<\/a>. They make up a significant share of America\u2019s elite researchers: Since 2000, 37 of the 104 U.S. Nobel laureates in the hard sciences,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/public.opendatasoft.com\/explore\/dataset\/nobel-prize-laureates\/table\/?disjunctive.category\">more than a third, were born outside the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>China, the U.S.\u2019s largest competitor in science, technology, engineering and math endeavors, has a population that is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/population\/china-eu-usa-japan-comparison\/\">4.1 times larger than that of the U.S.<\/a>\u00a0and so has a larger pool of homegrown talent. Each year, three times as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cset.georgetown.edu\/publication\/china-is-fast-outpacing-u-s-stem-phd-growth\/\">many Chinese citizens (77,000)<\/a>\u00a0are awarded STEM Ph.D.s as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ncses.nsf.gov\/pubs\/nsf23300\/report\/u-s-doctorate-awards\">American citizens (23,000)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To remain preeminent, the U.S. will need to keep attracting exceptional foreign graduate students, budding entrepreneurs and established scientific leaders.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Funding and visa policies could flip gain to drain<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>This scientific brain gain is being threatened by the Trump administration, which is using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-025-01749-x\">federal<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/06\/06\/nih-cuts-newly-released-documents-detail-impact-on-grants-training-research-labs\/\">research funding<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fulbright-board-resigns-accusing-trump-meddling\/\">scholarships<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.z8jhttk\">fellowships<\/a>\u00a0as leverage against universities, freezing billions of dollars in grants and contracts to force compliance with its ideological agenda. Its ad hoc approach has been described by higher education leaders as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/government\/politics-elections\/2025\/04\/18\/what-know-about-trumps-funding-threats-colleges\">unprecedented and deeply disturbing<\/a>,\u201d and a Reagan-appointed judge ruled that 400 National Institutes of Health grants be reinstated because their terminations were \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/science.zk0le7d\">bereft of reasoning, virtually in their entirety<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/government\/politics-elections\/2025\/04\/18\/what-know-about-trumps-funding-threats-colleges\">Experts caution<\/a>\u00a0that these moves not only risk immediate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/06\/27\/biotechnology-federal-funding-cuts-ceos-board-chairs-letter-to-congress\/\">harm to scientific progress<\/a>\u00a0and academic freedom but also erode the public\u2019s trust in science and education, with long-term implications for the nation\u2019s prosperity and security.<\/p>\n<p>Citing national security concerns, the White House has also targeted visas for Harvard University\u2019s international students and instructed embassies worldwide to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/05\/27\/trump-team-orders-stop-to-new-student-visa-interviews-as-it-weighs-expanding-social-media-vetting-00370501\">halt visa interviews<\/a>\u00a0for all international students, citing national security and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7291333\/harvard-university-trump-international-students-visa-suspension-sevp\/\">alleged institutional misconduct<\/a>. Against a backdrop of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2025\/6\/21\/preliminary-injunction-sevp\/\">court injunctions<\/a>\u00a0and legal appeals, the government continues its heightened \u201cnational-security\u201d vetting, so thousands of international scholars remain in limbo.<\/p>\n<p>These measures, combined with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/06\/09\/nx-s1-5427998\/trump-travel-ban-countries-immigration-enforcement\">travel bans<\/a>, intensified scrutiny and revocations of existing visas, have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-025-01361-z\">disrupted research collaborations<\/a>\u00a0and threaten the nation\u2019s continued status as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/global\/international-students-us\/2025\/04\/07\/where-students-have-had-their-visas-revoked\">global leader in science and innovation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>What US misses with fewer foreign scientists<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The U.S. research brain gain starts with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/opendoorsdata.org\/data\/international-students\/\">281,000 foreign STEM graduate students<\/a>\u00a0and 38,000 foreign STEM postdoctoral scholars who annually come to the U.S. I am one of them. After earning my bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in South Africa, I left in 1986 to avoid the apartheid\u2011era military service, completed my chemistry doctorate and postdoc in the U.S., and joined the United States\u2019 brain gain. It\u2019s an opportunity today\u2019s visa climate might have denied me.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_77493\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77493\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77493\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hostingResearchers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hostingResearchers.png 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hostingResearchers-250x167.png 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-77493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some other countries are eager to scoop up STEM talent that is unwelcome or unfunded in the U.S. Clement Mahoudeau\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Incentives for the best and brightest foreign science students to come to the U.S. are diminishing at the same time\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-025-01216-7\">its competitors are increasing their efforts<\/a>\u00a0to attract the strongest STEM researchers. For instance, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-025-01657-0\">University of Hong Kong<\/a>\u00a0is courting stranded Harvard students with dedicated scholarships, housing and credit-transfer help. A French university program,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/meet-first-academic-refugees-fleeing-us-france-science-program\/\">Safe Place for Science<\/a>, drew so many American job applicants that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/14\/business\/economy\/trump-research-brain-drain.html\">it had to shut the portal early<\/a>. And a Portuguese institute reports\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/d41586-025-01567-1\">a tenfold surge<\/a>\u00a0in inquiries from U.S.-based junior faculty.<\/p>\n<p>Immigrants\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.musc.edu\/about\/news-center\/2021\/07\/09\/immigrants-contribution-to-research-part-1\">import new ways of thinking<\/a>\u00a0to their research labs. They come from other cultures and have learned their science in different educational systems, which place different emphases on rote learning, historical understanding and interdisciplinary research. They often bring an alternative perspective that a homogeneous scientific community cannot match.<\/p>\n<p>Immigrants also help move discoveries from the lab to the marketplace.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1257\/mac.2.2.31\">Foreign-born inventors file patents<\/a>\u00a0at a higher per\u2011capita rate than their domestic peers and are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1257\/aeri.20200588\">80% more likely to launch a company<\/a>. Such firms create\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1257\/aeri.20200588\">roughly 50% more jobs<\/a>\u00a0than enterprises founded by native-born entrepreneurs and pay wages that are, on average, one percentage point higher.<\/p>\n<p>The economic stakes are high. Growth models suggest that scientific advances now account for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents1.worldbank.org\/curated\/en\/834231623049152769\/pdf\/Global-Productivity-Trends-Drivers-and-Policies.pdf\">a majority of productivity gains<\/a>\u00a0in high\u2011income countries.<\/p>\n<p>L. Rafael Reif, the former president of MIT, called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2019\/letter-community-immigration-is-oxygen-0625\">international talent the \u201coxygen\u201d of U.S. innovation<\/a>; restricting visas chokes that supply. Ongoing cuts and uncertainties in federal funding and visa policy now jeopardize America\u2019s scientific leadership and with it the nation\u2019s long\u2011term economic growth.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Author Bio:<\/strong> Marc Zimmer is Professor of Chemistry at Connecticut College<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite representing only\u00a04% of the world\u2019s population, the United States accounts for\u00a0over half of science Nobel Prizes\u00a0awarded since 2000, hosts\u00a0seven of The Times Higher Education Top 10 science universities, and incubates firms such as\u00a0Alphabet (Google),\u00a0Meta\u00a0and\u00a0Pfizer\u00a0that turn federally funded discoveries into billion-dollar markets. The domestic STEM talent pool alone cannot sustain this research output. 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