Research for the undergraduate

Charles Hurd and colloid research at Union College, 1923-1959

“…Stressing that the BS program at Union required the participation of all senior chemistry majors in a thesis project, he observed that students with different abilities gained a range of benefits: the best undergraduates often obtained publishable results, while those of lesser talent learned the rudimentary skills of planning and executing an experimental study. should be allowed into the laboratory (38)(39)(40) and proposed that all chemistry students should be given an opportunity to participate in independent research. Hurd also rejected the notion (41) that undergraduates were capable of performing only routine tasks, and his denunciation of the exploitation of potential researchers in such "hack work" evoked a sympathetic response (42) from his colleagues.…”

An approach to laboratory instruction in general chemistry

“…which describe research-type laboratory work on the undergraduate level but these have generally been meant for students above the freshman level or in qualitative analysis (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11).…”

Independent study programs for freshmen

“…Faculty at 35 of the institutions in the "opposed" group indicated that they did not offer an independent study program for freshmen because of the general immaturity and weak science background of the first year college student. Professors at the other 10 institutions in this group indicated that undergraduate research 1 Presented as part of the Symposium on New Ideas in the Four-Year Chemistiy Curriculum before the Division of Chemical Education at the 132nd Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New York, September, 1957. in the junior and/or senior years was sufficient.…”