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Differential Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Female Graduate Students and Postdocs in the Chemical Sciences
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Renee J. Sifri; Elizabeth A. McLoughlin; Brett P. Fors; Shima Salehi – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Over the past two and a half years, the COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted almost all aspects of life as people throughout the world were instructed to work-from-home. Scientific researchers, whose work is reliant on access to laboratory equipment, have been acutely impacted by these global changes. In this study, we surveyed graduate students…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Graduate Students, Females
Design and Implementation of an Organic to Analytical CURE Sequence
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Allen, William E.; Hosbein, Kathryn N.; Kennedy, Anthony M.; Whiting, Brandon; Walker, Joi P. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
This paper describes the design and implementation of a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) sequence in chemistry that links a lower-division, organic chemistry course to an upper-division, analytical chemistry course. The focus of student research is on blood preservation using trehalose derivatives in order to mimic the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Organic Chemistry, Teaching Methods
Drug Discovery in Real Life: An Online Learning Activity for Bioinformatics Students
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Jessica K. Holien; Lachlan Coff; Andrew J. Guy; Jennifer C. Boer – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
During COVID-19 lockdowns, online learning activities had to be developed for the Undergraduate and Masters by Coursework Bioinformatics students at RMIT University. Therefore, we designed an integrative, industry-based research assignment, which guided the students through a drug discovery project from target identification to lead optimization.…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Drug Therapy, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students
Student-Driven, Curriculum-Embedded Undergraduate Research Experiences (SD-CUREs) in the Senior Chemistry Curriculum and Its Impact on Students
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Bopegedera, A. M. R. P. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2021
Curriculum-embedded undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have the unique advantage that "all" students enrolled in a course engage in authentic scientific research. While CUREs guided by faculty research interests are common, this article describes CUREs embedded in the senior chemistry curriculum that were driven entirely by…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Interests, Student Research, Scientific Research
Reassessing Undergraduate Polymer Chemistry Laboratory Experiments for Virtual Learning Environments
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Metin Karayilan; Samantha M. McDonald; Alexander J. Bahnick; Kacey M. Godwin; Yin Mei Chan; Matthew L. Becker – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Chemistry laboratory experiments are invaluable to students' acquisition of necessary synthetic, analytical, and instrumental skills during their undergraduate studies. However, the COVID-19 pandemic rendered face-to-face (f2f), in-person teaching laboratory experiences impossible from late 2019-2020 and forced educators to rapidly develop new…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Chemistry, Laboratory Experiments
Increasing Computational Protein Design Literacy through Cohort-Based Learning for Undergraduate Students
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Erin C. Yang; Robby Divine; Christine S. Kang; Sidney Chan; Elijah Arenas; Zoe Subol; Peter Tinker; Hayden Manninen; Alicia Feichtenbiner; Talal Mustafa; Julia Hallowell; Isiac Orr; Hugh Haddox; Brian Koepnick; Jacob O'Connor; Ian C. Haydon; Karla-Luise Herpoldt; Kandise Van Wormer; Celine Abell; David Baker; Alena Khmelinskaia; Neil P. King – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Undergraduate research experiences can improve student success in graduate education and STEM careers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, undergraduate researchers at our institution and many others lost their work-study research positions due to interruption of in-person research activities. This imposed a financial burden on the students and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, COVID-19, Pandemics