Chemistry 8066, Spring Semester, 2008

Professional Conduct of Chemical Research

4:40-6:10, Tuesday

231 Smith Hall


Instructor:

Ilja Siepmann

  • Office: 227 Smith Hall
  • Phone: 4-1844
  • Email: siepmann@umn.edu
  • Office hours: anytime

Teaching Assistant:

Beau Barker

  • Office: S-20 Smith Hall
  • Phone: 5-6399
  • Email: bbarker@umn.edu
  • Office hours: stop by or by appointment

 

Announcements:

 

Syllabus: (doc, pdf)

Group Presentation Description:(doc)


 

Lecture Schedule:

Date Topic
Week 1 January 29
Lab Notebooks; Ownership of Ideas and Research Data; Peer Review
Week 2 February 5
Palgiarism
Week 3 February 12
Scientific Misconduct
Week 4 February 19
Responsible Use of Copyrighted and Licensed Material; Good Practices for Preparing Presentations and Manuscripts
Week 5 February 26
Group Presentations: Teaching labs, exams and homework; Advisor-advisee relationships; Graduate school stress
Week 6 March 4
Group Presentations: Letters of recommendation; Research funded by for-profit sponsors; Research groups with strong connections to start-up companies; Research internships; Commerical instruments and software
Week 7 March 11
Group Presentations: Not-so-green chemistry; Animal experiments; Cloning; Artificial tissue/organs

Schedule for Group Presentations:
February 26
Anne, Ryan, Courtney, David, John, Josh, Chad, Jon, and Michael
Teaching labs, exams, and homework
February 26
Suqin, Li, Jing, Ligeng, Tao, Meng, Bo, and Yu
Teaching labs, exams, and homework
February 26
Britt, Kyle, Elodie, Lindsay, Melissa, Sarah, Eric, and Nate
Advisor/advisee relationships
February 26
Ross, Daniel, Jacob, Erik, Ashley, Luke, Venkata, Giang, and Zachary
Graduate school stress
March 4
Hugh, Nina, Erich, Adam, Susan, Eric, and Amy
Letters of recommendation
March 4
Danhui, Jingyi, Feifei, Xiaoying, Yiyun, Andrew, Van, and Zhifeng
Commerical instruments and software
March 4
Secil, Robert, Hannah, Zahid, Cagri, Ece, James, Satish, and Mohammad
Artificial tissue/organs
March 4
Louis, Francesc, Liz, Mark, Chang-yub, Jung Sung,and Hajime
Research groups with strong connections to start-up companies
March 11
Jamie, Ashley, Steven, Audrey, Ewa, Brian, Leah, and Brady
Research funded by for-profit sponsors
March 11
Sara, Kyle, Melissa, Yu-Shen, Gregory, Kenrick, and Nicholas
Animal experiments
March 11
Brandon, Aalo, Matt, Susie, Heidi, and Kelly
Cloning
March 11
Jaebeom, Craig, Yong Wook, Daniel, and Anh
Research internships OR Not-so-green chemistry

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