{"268851":{"#nid":"268851","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Graduate Student in Public Policy Serves as Intro Chemistry TA","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBy:\u0026nbsp;Naveena Karusala, Honors Program First-Year\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI would say the best part about General Chemistry (CHEM 1310) was its applicability. Often, labs and lecture tend to teach theory, making write-ups and tests seem almost artificial because students know these principles have been established and taught many times before. However, I think a policy discussion involving chemistry requires students to apply the principles they learned in a new way that they themselves had to think of and perform a cost-benefit analysis on. For example, we learned about the chemical principles behind the efficiency of making biodiesel, but also had to think about how efficiency factors into a company\u0027s ability to factor biodiesel into their system based on our own research and judgement.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27921","created_gmt":"2014-01-16 15:39:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:15:40","author":"Katie Geddes","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-12-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-12-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"72437","name":"John H. Martinson Honors Program"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}