To accommodate these changes, the department reduced the number of organic chemistry seats to make sure all students in CHEM ...

No academic catalog is going to define an undergraduate class as a “weed-out” or “gatekeeper” course. But these courses can come to define individual career paths, pushing some students out of STEM ...

It’s a fate many pre-medical students at Northwestern can’t avoid: taking biology and organic chemistry classes at the same time. The two-quarter sequence, which includes labs that can run between two ...

For the past seven years, I’ve been teaching introductory and organic chemistry to lecture halls full of ambitious students who see my courses as a means to an end—medical school or requirements for a ...

Organic chemistry is a notoriously hard subject. Now imagine learning it via Zoom. Labs and lectures — from Organic Chemistry and Physical Chemistry to Introductory Chemistry and upper-level seminars, ...

Standing at the head of a classroom, Matthew R. Hartings holds up a can of evaporated milk and gives it a shake. “Adding evaporated milk is an easy way to stabilize a lot of cream-type sauces,” he ...