Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences

Chemical Sciences Roundtable, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Summary; 3 1 The Challenges to American Graduate Education; 4 2 Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences; 5 3 Graduate Education in Chemistry: A Personal Perspective on Where It Has Been and Where It Might Go; 6 Panel Discussion; 7 4 External Research Collaborations Enrich Graduate Education; 8 5 Portals to Knowledge: Information Technology, Research, and Training; 9 6 The Graduate Student in the Dual Role of Student and Teacher; 10 7 Keeping an Eye to the Future in Designing Graduate Programs; 11 8 The Graduate Student Perspective; 12 9 The Making of a Chemist: My Adventures in Graduate School; 13 10 A Perspective from a Former Graduate Student; 14 11 New Students, New Faculty, and New Opportunities: Preparing Future Faculty; 15 Panel Discussion; 16 12 Broadening the Scientific Ph.D.: The Princeton Experience; 17 13 Across the Disciplines: Center-based Graduate Education and Research; 18 14 Training Grants in the Chemical and Biological Sciences; 19 Closing Remarks; 20 Appendix A List of Workshop Participants; 21 Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers; 22 Appendix C Origin of and Information on the Chemical Sciences Roundtable