Earlier this week, the New York Times covered the dismissal of longtime and highly decorated professor Maitland Jones Jr. from his position as contract (non-tenured) faculty teaching a large organic ...

It’s a fate many pre-medical students at Northwestern can’t avoid: taking biology and organic chemistry classes at the same time. The two-quarter sequence, which includes labs that can run between two ...

A one semester four credit lecture/lab combination that can only be taken as a package. This is a survey course that cannot serve as a prerequisite to higher-level organic chemistry courses. It can ...

Organic chemistry is perhaps one of the most dreaded courses in the premedical curriculum. Some aspiring doctors even give up on their goal of going to medical school because they are deterred by the ...

Organic chemistry is perhaps one of the most dreaded courses in the premedical curriculum. Some aspiring doctors even give up on their goal of going to medical school because they are deterred by the ...

Organic chemistry gets a bad rap. “Students hear that this is one of the hardest courses in the world, a killer,” says Jack A. Kampmeier, a chemist at the University of Rochester. And truth be told, ...

Organic chemistry is one of the most notoriously difficult classes on campus according to many students. On top of being strenuous, the class is considered to have little relevance to real-world ...

Last spring, 555 students enrolled in CHEM 0350: “Organic Chemistry I.” But during pre-registration this fall, prospective students were met with a new course cap: Only 410 students were able to ...

A New York University professor who was fired after a group of students signed a petition against him suggesting his course was too difficult. A group of 82 of 350 organic chemistry students signed ...

Ask any science major to name the toughest class they’ve had to complete in order to get into medical school or finish their undergraduate degree and, more than likely, the answer will be introductory ...