How can we give undergraduates a meaningful research experience in computational chemistry if they have not taken Physical Chemistry and have no Unix experience? We will discuss the advantages and challenges of taking on first and second-year undergraduates, how to help them get over the learning curve of computational chemistry, and how to spread out their research education in the hope that the experience is beneficial to both faculty and student. Several examples of student projects in my lab involving small molecule self-assembly and oligomerization will be included.

Getting over the curve: Early experiences in computational chemistry

254th National Meeting (2017)

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