Students often ask me, “Do I need to go to graduate school for a chemistry career in industry?” I ask back, “What career opportunities do you want? What job values are important to you? How is your ...

To find non-traditional chemistry careers, you must first embrace the uncertainty of stepping off the more established path. Rather than fret about getting lost in a treacherous unknown, view it as an ...

“The biggest thing a teacher can hope for is to make an impact on people’s lives,” reflects Lâle Burk, emerita in the chemistry department at Smith College. For nearly five decades, Burk taught ...

Where we choose to live determines so much about our lives, including career trajectories and family and friend groups. And many of us choose where we live by where we find work. I’ve always said, ...

Students studying chemistry at the University of New Haven enjoy a wide range of hands-on experiences in the laboratory. When Michael Orsini ’19, ’21 M.S. decided to pursue his master’s degree in ...

For those interested in engineering a brighter future for the world, analytical chemistry is an attractive career choice. But how do you break into this field? Typically, a budding analytical chemist ...

Chemistry is a deeply nuanced field with many areas of specialization. From analytical and biochemistry to inorganic, organic, physical, theoretical, and environmental chemistry, students can explore ...

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We’ve all been to boring career panels with four versions of the same story. It’s either “I went to graduate school, then a postdoc, and now I’m a professor” or “I went to graduate school, and I’ve ...

At this time of the year, many Sixth Form students will be thinking about what they might like to do for a career and what to study at University, and how their subjects relate to the real world.