Sheila Tobias

Sheila Tobias
came upon the idea of the “professional science master’s” in a study of a set of PhD graduates in the physical sciences who by 1994 had given up hope of an academic research career. From their responses to a questionnaire emerged the idea of a new degree based on a “science-plus-business” curriculum.* Working with the Sloan Foundation from 1999-2006, she functioned as a field organizer and outreach coordinator of the national PSM movement and remains a consultant to Sloan and the National PSM Association, especially as regards state-wide, campus-wide and system-wide adoptions of the degree.
* Sheila Tobias, Daryl E. Cubin, and Kevin Aylesworth, Rethinking Science as a Career. Research Corporation, 1995.


