EXTRACT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ADRESS OF DR. NANCY COX IN THE MEETING OF THE ASHG IN OCTOBER 17-21, 2017.

“ Also I want to mention my colleagues in Mexico who developed a really selective high quality undergraduate program for genomic sciences that emphasys education in Biology, education in Statistics, and mathematics and education in computer sciences, all equally in the undergraduate education and the Young people who have graduated from that program are now doing PhD, Postdoctoral Research and some of the best labs all across the world and to really capture that investment they developed a new Institute for Human Genome Research there that now brings back some of the people as faculty to really see the next generation, new generation of scientist there it is as they call if a magnet for talent, it really is a terrific program and I Think is also a _____of model for education of scientists going forward.”