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8 The Graduate Student Perspective
Pages 106-110

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From page 106...
... candidate in the middle of my fifth and final year in the chemistry department at Columbia University. This statement alone has a great deal of relevance to this workshop on graduate education and to questions that were raised during these proceedings.
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From page 107...
... We decided, therefore, that these could form a common foundation on which we could gather the support of other graduate students. Columbia University has a career services division that provides information and organizes workshops and panel discussions for prospective job seekers.
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From page 108...
... The title of the forum was "The Value and Future of the Chemistry Ph.D." The panelists were Janet Osteryoung, the director of the Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation; Madeleine Jacobs, editor in chief of Chemical & Engineering News; Ede1 Wasserman, who was then a candidate for the ACS presidency; Sally Chapman, chair of the Chemistry Department at Barnard College and former chair of the ACS Committee on Professional Training; and Eduardo Macagno, dean of the
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From page 109...
... This should also be taken into account. It' s easy to talk about interdisciplinary approaches to graduate education, but sometimes, unless this is institutionalized, it's not that easy for students to gain the flexibility to pursue them.
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... Again, it will take a lot of work to organize this, especially considering the fact that I am in my final year. Again, since this is not going to be provided for me, I will have to make it happen for myself.
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