BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) - Two South Dakota State University professors are using a grant to develop a new way of teaching chemistry to college students.
Associate professors David Cartrette and Matt Miller have received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to write a new laboratory curriculum for chemistry.
The curriculum will seek to have students trained in lab techniques using instruments used by most chemists in everyday work. It also will give students opportunities to answer real-world questions related to science.
The new technique will involve collaboration between first-year and second-year chemistry students, with the second-year students helping to train the first-year students.
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