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https://lnkd.in/d8Kj37dF Factors Shaping the Choice in Chemistry: Insights from Undergraduate Students within a Societal Context

Pre-VCE Chemistry students at ✱ Kennedy College explore all 23 known and hypothesised states of matter, and all 8 types of colloids. 🧪 Each student then chooses a state of matter and brings it to life in a 30-second, 1-slide micro-presentation spoken individually to the whole class. 🔍 There's more out there than just solids, liquids, gases, and plasma. We feed students' innate curiosity about science and use it to build intrinsic motivation to read, learn, excel, and gain scientific knowledge, scientific skills and scientific values. 🕵️ Keep exploring. Stay curious. Pursue truth. 💪 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gsRt55rP 🚀#Curiosity #Science #STEM #Chemistry

Comparative research can help identify the similarities of and differences in different contexts, enabling us to recognize more possibilities and strategies of enhancing our understanding of different aspects of education. In this article, we have reviewed and analysed the current status of using comparative research designs in studying issues related to chemistry education.

#nobelprize #sustainability Choosing scientific research as a career is like any other career. The research profession is a cathedral, from the broad base of the pyramid to the apex, for its pharaohs at the apex to be buried, embalmed and mummified in the crypt below the base in aspiration of eternal life, immortality, as Isaac Newton was in Westminster Abbey. It depends on the scale of the problem you are trying to solve, big problem and big think or just fit in and go along with the flow of the profession finding your little niche without ruffling any feathers. As they say in economics, applying the concept of psychological risk profile to research, are you a researcher who is risk averse, risk neutral, or risk loving? The paradigmatic changes in the structure of scientific revolutions have always come from individual researchers, without exception, with no collaborators, who are intellectual risk lovers like myself. You may think, as it is with most politicians or corporate chieftains, such intellectual risk taking is either megalomania or craziness or both, because neither intelligence quotient nor level of formal education really matter. To succeed, as with those very few on Mount Rushmore, it is neither. Most human beings born normally are just about equally bright. Some need to persist more and others less to whom things come easy. It is a very humble and humbling endeavor to attain Socratic ignorance. You have to prostrate before the Gods and ask for fire, not steal it like Prometheus in the hubris of forethought only to regret like Epimetheus in afterthought when the vultures do not cease to peck at your liver after you are tied in chains. Problem selection is the choice you make as a researcher.

The best advice for young researchers 🎓📚

Unveiling opportunities or challenges hidden from others is the inspiring essence of growth and innovation.

Grit and determination is the key to success. Finding the right problem is the key to achieving scientific breakthrough. Some problems may never be solved but the ambition to solve them leads to several unexpected solutions.

Nice and crisp advice for budding researchers!

Chemistry To The World

A piece of wisdom from Prof. Louis Brus, a #NobelPrize laureate in #chemistry 2023, for #students and #researchers: • We are all trapped with our educational backgrounds. • Learn something new every day; this is the greatest skill we have. • What are your colleagues working on, why is it important? • Search continuously for a better problem than the one you are working on at present. • The choice of problem is the most important scientific decision you will ever make. • Problems difficult in one field are easy in other fields. • Intelligence, dedication and discipline are required, but not genius.