Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences:

Issues for the 21st Century: Report of a Workshop

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Size: 186 pages, 8.5 x 11

Publication Year:2000

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Chemical Sciences Roundtable, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, National Research Council
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Front Matter	i-xiv
Summary	1-6	(skim)
1 The Challenges to American Graduate Education	7-17	(skim)
2 Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences	18-26	(skim)
3 Graduate Education in Chemistry: A Personal Perspective on Where It Has Been and Where It Might Go	27-36	(skim)
Panel Discussion	37-44	(skim)
4 External Research Collaborations Enrich Graduate Education	45-55	(skim)
5 Portals to Knowledge: Information Technology, Research, and Training	56-72	(skim)
6 The Graduate Student in the Dual Role of Student and Teacher	73-90	(skim)
7 Keeping an Eye to the Future in Designing Graduate Programs	91-105	(skim)
8 The Graduate Student Perspective	106-110	(skim)
9 The Making of a Chemist: My Adventures in Graduate School	111-113	(skim)
10 A Perspective from a Former Graduate Student	114-118	(skim)
11 New Students, New Faculty, and New Opportunities: Preparing Future Faculty	119-123	(skim)
Panel Discussion	124-129	(skim)
12 Broadening the Scientific Ph.D.: The Princeton Experience	130-134	(skim)
13 Across the Disciplines: Center-based Graduate Education and Research	135-143	(skim)
14 Training Grants in the Chemical and Biological Sciences	144-158	(skim)
Closing Remarks	159-160	(skim)
Appendix A List of Workshop Participants	161-165	(skim)
Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers	166-169	(skim)
Appendix C Origin of and Information on the Chemical Sciences Roundtable	170-171	(skim)

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