While formal coursework provides students with education in chemical concepts and training in laboratory practices, students need to learn more than course content alone to be effective and productive scientists.  They need to master a variety of skills that will allow them to become successful professionals, including problem solving, laboratory safety, use of the chemical literature, oral and written communication, team building, and ethical behavior.  These skills can be imparted and assessed throughout the chemistry curriculum.  Undergraduate research is an important experience that reinforces development of these skills while at the same time providing students the opportunity to integrate concepts learned in class into the broader context of a research question.  The treatment of student-skill development and undergraduate research in the revised ACS Guidelines will be discussed.

Development of student skills and the role of research in the undergraduate curriculum:  Implications for the ACS guidelines

245th National Meeting (2013)

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