The Chemistry Merit Program: Reaching, teaching, and retaining students in the chemical sciences

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 721-726

  Adams, Gretchen M ^a   Lisy, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

CHEMICAL SCIENCE; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

CHEMISTRY;

EID: 34147190132     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed084p721     Document Type: Article

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