Chemistry at Brown

i_wanna_be_Brown
Sat, 02 Jan 2016 16:21:02 +0000

Not a chemistry concentrator myself but did have a friend who was a chemistry/econ double concentrator who did research with Zimmt (I don’t think he’s there anymore?). If I recall, it was his own project - I believe that’s a requirement for the honors thesis, which I know he did. I was at his presentation and it was something involving stacking monolayers of molecules or something. I didn’t fully understand it at the time and now it’s over 6 years ago. I’m sure he still worked with grad students to some extent but I remember him constantly going into lab for short periods of time at all sorts of hours because his work was mostly synthesis so it was a lot of “mix a few solutions together, let it sit for 5 hours, then do xyz, let it sit for 3 hours, etc”

To your other questions, I hope response rates for the critical review haven’t died down since my time at Brown (http://www.thecriticalreview.org/). It’s definitely a great resource for learning about courses as it’s essentially ratemyprof but it ensures the reviews are only from students who took the class that semester, and by physically handing out surveys in class, encourages a wider range of opinions to be recorded.