A few of the articles from this week's issue of Chemical and Engineering News:
- Cover: Livestock emissions still up in the air (by Britt Erickson)
- Interesting piece on photoswitchable drugs
- Four billion Canadian dollars for Canadian science (article by Sharon Oosthoek)
- 10% more for American science, too (article by Andrea Widener, Britt E. Erickson and Cheryl Hogue)
- AI in the lab (by Rick Mullin)
- Perspective on AI in the laboratory by Nick Lynch
- "The chemistry of modern moonshine" (by Kerri Jansen)
- Letter to the editor arguing for starting college students earlier in undergraduate research
- What percentage of readers of this blog did some kind of research as a high school student during summers? (raises hands)
I did a little bit one summer in high school (post-it notes are for notes). It would probably be better to do more research in undergrad, though I think it might be good to have external work in addition to thesis-type work. I didn't do much research in undergrad because I needed work (and was lazy - I only worked 15-20 h/wk), and it would have helped me to have done so.
ReplyDelete(Eastern Europe) I began working at a university lab a year before graduating high school. Few years later it led to showing stuff to undergrads who were older than me. This path led me to grad school in US.
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