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3 Goals of Chemistry Graduate Education
3 Goals of Chemistry Graduate Education
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history. It also looks at the topics of breadth versus depth in graduate education and at the expectations of students and faculty.
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Nevertheless, this economic development helped fuel the Industrial Revolution in the United States and raised the living standards of large masses of ordinary people. The third epoch began in 1941 when the federal government created the Office of Scientific Research and Development to coordinate scientific research for military purposes during World War II.
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Instead of a student working on one project for five years, perhaps a student could work for three different mentors over those five years on three different but related problems. "You sacrifice a bit of the depth, but increase the breadth considerably." (This subject is discussed later in this chapter, while the structure of graduate education in chemistry is discussed in Chapter 5.)
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"Depth, breadth, and communication could be three anchors around which graduate education could be transformed." The problem with many discussions of depth versus breadth, said Paul Houston from the Georgia Institute of Technology, is that everybody wants everything. Industry wants PhD recipients who have engaged in a deep research project, but they also want students with communica tion skills, the ability to cooperate with other people, familiarity with concepts throughout chemistry, safety training, and entrepreneurship, management, and intellectual property skills.
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Communicating expectations from faculty to student and from student to faculty would go a long way toward improving the student and faculty experience in graduate education. John Schwab, formerly from NIGMS, noted that most graduate trainees are supported through research dollars, which generally do not include expectations regarding the breadth and depth of the graduate experience.
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