Career development undergraduate research

Student advisers include university career development officers and professors of chemistry. The latter advisers are those who direct students undergraduate or graduate chemical research or generally counsel undergraduate chemistry students. 

Alison Williams started her scientific career as a high school student when she worked part-time at the Ohio State Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster, Ohio. She subsequently received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University, and then her master s degree and Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry. Dr. Williams has taught at Swarthmore College, Wesleyan University, and is now a faculty member at Princeton University. 

Since his undergraduate years, his research career has focused on the structure-activity relationships of bioactive compounds, starting with the auxin-type plant-growth regulators and herbicides. In 1961, he joined Corwin Hansch at Pomona College in Claremont, California, as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. From 1961 to 1963, he and Hansch developed a novel procedure to quantitatively analyze structure-activity relationships of agrochemicals and medicines (QSAR). QSAR is regarded as a forerunner to the development of a number of recent computer-aided... 

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