Laboratory graduate research

Originally this resource, the Periodic Table, was created by Robert Husted at Los Alamos National Laboratory during his time as a Graduate Research Assistant. 

Please notice that in a well-ventilated laboratory and a pressure cell, these experiments can be executed safely. In seven years of graduate research activity at the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Akron, only one catalyst ignition and one real CO alarm occurred. Several false CO alarms were sounded until someone noticed that they always happened about 2 30 PM. As it turned out, one maintenance employee parked his old car right in front of the air intake to the lab ventilation. He warmed up his car for a while before he started to go home after his shift, and the motor exhaust gas set off the false alarms. 

Never work in the laboratory alone. (For graduate research work and professional work, it is sometimes necessary to work alone. If so, make sure that someone—a security guard or an individual working in a nearby laboratory—will check on you every few hotus.)... 

In faculty office/laboratories and graduate research laboratories, the office areas are adjacent to the hall so that students arriving for conferences with their instructors need not enter a laboratory, and a graduate student studying in his or her office area cannot be trapped by a sudden fire in the laboratory. 

Faculty Office/Laboratories The 12 x 30 faculty office/ laboratories are divided into a 12 x 10 office separated from a 12 X 20 laboratory by a door. The rear door of the laboratory section typically opens into an adjacent graduate research laboratory. The faculty member is provided with a four-foot induced-air hood, but is expected to use the chemical storage hood and solvent safety cabinet in the graduate laboratory. 

After five years in Hudson s laboratory, Purves accepted an appointment as an associate professor of organic chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Here, he began the supervision of graduate research on the chemistry of cellulose and its derivatives, which thereafter remained his major interest. Several reactions characteris-... 

Most research is carried out either in educational research institutes or in national research laboratories, which are structured and operated much like graduate research facilities at American universities. The... 

Rint P. Sijbesma (left) did his graduate research with professor Roeland Nolte at the University of Nijmegen the focus was on synthetic receptor molecules. From 1992 to 1993 he worked as a postdoctoral research assistant with professor Fred Wudl (University of California, Santa Barbara) on the synthesis of water-soluble C6o-derivatives. In 1993 he took his present position as assistant professor in the laboratories of professor E. W. Meijer, where he is working in the field of supramolecular polymer chemistry. 

Acknowledgments One of the authors (LPD) performed much of her work with the support of a Student Employee Graduate Research Fellowship (SEGRF) from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 

States is carried out at national laboratories. The number of U.S. chemistry departments offering a specialization in nuclear chemistry has decreased continuously over the past 30 years. There has been a corresponding sharp decline in the numbers of Ph.D.s in nuclear and radiochemistry (23 U.S. Ph.D.s from 1970 to 1980 versus 12 Ph.D.s from 1990 to 2000). According to the 2005 ACS Directory of Graduate Research, only a dozen departments still have a program in nuclear chemistry and these typically have one or two active faculty members. 

Ricardo Hernandez, graduated in 2003 with a degree in physics at the University of Zaragoza (Zaragoza, Spain), is currently a PhD student there and works in the Laboratory of Research on Combustion Technologies. He works on research of advanced monitoring and control of industrial flames and combustion instabilities, has participated in some research projects and is co-author of several papers in international journals and conferences. 

Most research is carried out either in educational research institutions or in the national research laboratories (mentioned earlier), both of which are structured and operated much like a graduate research facility in an American university. The use of processes developed in these institutions is small compared with the total production in the chemical industry. This is caused, primarily, by the charges for use of the process and by the burdensome licensing procedures involved. Steps recently have been taken to overcome these deficiencies through the formation of advisory boards. 

Charles P. Casey received his early education in St. Louis, Missouri (B.S. in chemistry, St. Louis University, 1963). His graduate research with George M. Whitesides at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) was on organocopper compounds. After receiving his Ph.D. in 1967, he spent several months at Harvard University as a National Science Foundation (NSF) fellow in the laboratories of Paul D. Bartlett. In 1968, he joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he is now Homer B. Adkins Professor of Chemistry and Steenbock Professor in the Physical Sciences. He was department chair at Wisconsin from 1998 to 2001. He was President of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in 2004. 

In this program 20 students from predominantly undergraduate institutions were selected to receive 2500 fellowships to conduct research full time, normally during the summer months, with their faculty mentor. For the summer preceding their entrance into graduate school, industrial sponsors offer their awardees the opportunity to work in their corporate research laboratories. These Research Partnerships link student and faculty member with the fellowship sponsor to provide them with an association for mutual identification not otherwise possible. Sponsors in 1990 were American Cyanamid Company (Agricultural Research Division), Eli Lilly and Company, Hewlett-Packard Company, the Merck Company Foundation, Norwich ton Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Pfizer Central Research, Rohm and Haas Company, and SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals. 

The work in Leiden mentioned above was successfully conducted thanks to the dedication, inspiration, quality and hard work of undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, visiting scientist and collaborators over the last two decades. Their names appear as co-authors in the references from our laboratory. Local support from the Graduate Research School BIOMAC is acknowledged. 

V. Srinivasa Rao completed post graduate studies in the subject of Polymer Science in 2004 from the Center of Excellence in Polymer Science, Karntak University, Dharwad, India. In 2005 he joined as a Research Eellow in the Naval Materials Research Laboratory (Defence Research and Development Organization), India, and completed Ph.D work in the area of Liquid Crystalline Polymers for Optical Data Storage at the University of Mumbai. He then joined as a Technical Officer in Central Institute of Plastics Engineering Technology, Lucknow, India. 

The authors thank the Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF No. 36477-AC5) for support of this research. This material is based upon work supported under a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The authors thank also Dr. Timir Datta for the use of his evaporation chamber and Art Illingworth and Allen Frye for the fabrication of an evaporation chamber for this laboratory. 

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