"We're interested in giving students marketable skills so that when they're done, they can take industry certifications and get jobs," Mr. Thomases said.
Making this idea a reality would take industry and government support, as well as legislation, and it won't happen overnight.
That's not always a fair charge, Parkinson points out, especially since some mainstream scientists also take industry funding without comparable criticism.
Everything was there for the taking: industries, assets, property, control over territory.
It depicted an ethics-free zone, where inspectors routinely took industry gifts and did favors for industry friends.
The reason, for two-thirds of the directors who reported taking industry money, was inadequate financing from other sources.
Officials at the Minerals Management Service, the agency within the Department of the Interior that was meant to ensure the safety of deep-sea drilling, took industry intimacy to extremes.
The chip maker Advanced Micro Devices on Monday pushed out its 49-year-old chief executive, Dirk Meyer, in a move that took industry analysts by surprise.
The structure for the new fellowship takes industry averages for its clinical, academic and MPH components.
But 39% took industry jobs, and disproportionately worked at companies that conduct research.
