Graduate students doing research

Ph.D. students must be prepared for the interdisciplinary environment in which they will likely spend their careers as biochemical or biomedical engineers. The best way to do this is to expose them to interdisciplinary research as graduate students. To facilitate this, a broad and stable base of research support targeted at interdisciplinary research must be created. Particularly valuable would be support targeted to... 

So, I went back to Columbia. I got my best graduate student Jim [James P.] Gordon to work on it as a thesis. I told him, if we can t make it work, you can still do some nice research, and get a thesis. So he worked on it for about two years, along with a post-doc, Herbert Zeiger. Jim Gordon and Herbert Zeiger both worked on it, and they were very good scientists. 

Overall, this book clearly illustrates what we can do in organic synthesis using rhodium catalysis and I have no doubt that it will serve as an excellent reference text for both graduate students and synthetic chemists at all levels in academia and industry. Moreover, I anticipate that this book will stimulate additional research in the area of organorhodium chemistry, and serve to inspire those involved in the development and application of new synthetic methodology. 

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