What the Chemistry Community is saying...

"By working directly with scientists and engineers from industry, students gain new awareness of needs and opportunities in the private sector. At the same time, the companies are given a window on leading edge research and emerging technologies as well as the ablities of possible future employees... The actions we recommend revolve around one basic principle: providing science and engineering graduate students, especially at the Ph.D level, with a broad range of experiences that prepare them for rewarding careers both inside and outside of academe."

Mary L. Good
former Undersecretary for Technology
U.S. Department of Commerce

Neal F. Lane
former Director
U.S. National Science Foundation

"More should be made of internships and participation in cooperative (co-op) education as formal requirements in chemistry programs... A few departments are beginning to use industrial research internships to broaden their graduate students' outlooks vis-a-vis the chemical industry... Because many companies use co-ops or internships for employment screening, it would be sensible to provide a mechanism by which masters' and doctoral students could participate in such programs."

Edward Kostiner
former Chairman
ACS Committee on Economics & Professional Affairs

"Faculty and students participation in industrial research and in industrially-sponsored research can have many benefits beyaond the research product itself: the educational benefit to the students of learning about the industrial environment; the access of industry to many of our most talented faculty; early identification of the most promising students; possible long-term research collaboration of interest to industry."

The President's Report on Science in the National Interest.

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