Research experience at the undergraduate level is often reserved for upperclassmen or for those students who actively seek out opportunities early in their academic career. While there are opportunities to incorporate research-type experiments in large freshman laboratories, they do not afford students the same experiences one would get working in a research group. With a desire to expose students to chemical research at the freshman level, we at Old Dominion University have developed a course that places students into active research professor's labs during their General Chemistry II laboratory course. The development, structure, and evolution of this course as well as the challenges and successes encountered will be discussed.

First year undergraduate research experience

255th National Meeting (2018)

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