Minority enrollment drops in graduate science programs.

Reports a decrease in the number of black students enrolled in doctor of philosophy degree (Ph.D.) programs in the sciences and engineering. Decrease of 20 percent between 1996 and 1997; Report released by the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Decline in the enrollment of Hispanic students; Increase in the number of minority bachelor degrees in the sciences and engineering; Comments of Shirley M. Malcolm, one of the author's of the report.