A major part of our educational mission as chemical crystallographers is to made sure chemistry students can develop the skills they need and use crystallography in their future research. In the past several years, we have incorporated <i>student-centered guest lecturing</i> into our practical crystallography course, which is taught to graduate and upper-level undergraduate chemistry students. We have experimented with and refined the following approaches: themed guest presentations, hands-on workshops (whenever possible), and small group conversations. Such approaches have become a highlight of the course for our students, and provided the students with exposure to a much broader range of real-life applications of the course material. Students are able to develop a deeper understanding of the opportunities that advanced crystallography offers and employ such experiments in their own research. Herein, guidelines are described for student-centered guest lecturing in a chemical crystallography setting, which we hope will be of use to educators in the field.

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256th National Meeting (2018)

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