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In the Classroom
Research Skills and Ethics--A Graduate Course Empowering Graduate Students for Productive Research Careers in Graduate School and Beyond
Patricia Ann Mabrouk
Department of Chemistry, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115-5000
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December 2001
Vol. 78 No. 12
p. 1628
Abstract
This paper describes a course for first-year graduate students that teaches the fundamental so-called "soft skills" required for success in graduate school and beyond. Topics covered are ethics, laboratory safety and waste management, chemical information retrieval and literacy, experimental design, scientific record keeping, statistics, career development, and communications, including technical writing and oral presentation. Whenever possible students are put in direct contact with local technical experts and available resources. The course, well regarded by both students and faculty, has now been taught at Northeastern University for five years in the summer academic quarter to graduate students in chemistry and related departments (pharmacy and chemical engineering) who have successfully completed their first-year course work.
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 Mabrouk, Patricia Ann. J. Chem. Educ. 2001 78 1628.
*  Keywords
 Chemical Information; Curriculum; Ethics; Graduate Education / Research; Safety / Hazardous Materials; Writing in Chemistry
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