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There is a course offered at nearly every university, and it's called Organic Chemistry, and it is a grueling, heavy introduction to the subject, a flood of content that overwhelms students, and you have to ace it if you want to become a doctor or a dentist or a veterinarian.
And that is why so many
students
perceive this science like this ... as an obstacle in their path, and they fear it and they hate it and they call it a weed-out course.
But your perception of these two words should not be defined by the experiences of premed
students
who frankly are going through a very anxious time of their lives.
Part of her job is to teach dental
students
how to tell where in a patient's mouth there are cavities.
I just want to take a moment to acknowledge the great
students
who work with me in my lab at Penn and my collaborators.
This was one of my
students
from a few years earlier, and he came one day back to campus.
So I'll be talking about the success of my campus, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, UMBC, in educating
students
of all types, across the arts and humanities and the science and engineering areas.
And what makes the story especially unique is that we have learned how to help African-American students, Latino students,
students
from low-income backgrounds, to become some of the best in the world in science and engineering.
And what made that institutional founding especially important is that Maryland is the South, as you know, and, quite frankly, it was the first university in our state founded at a time when
students
of all races could go there.
And so we had black and white
students
and others who began to attend.
A lot of our
students
get into theater.
But when I looked at the data, what I found was that, quite frankly,
students
in general, large numbers were not making it.
And as a result of that, we decided to do something that would help, first of all, the group at the bottom, African-American students, and then Hispanic
students.
Whether you know it or not, large numbers of
students
with high SAT's and large numbers of A.P. credits who go to the most prestigious universities in our country begin in pre-med or pre-engineering and engineering, and they end up changing their majors.
And what is interesting about that is that so many
students
are smart and can do it.
So what are the four things we did to help minority
students
that now are helping
students
in general?
And so doing things to help
students
prepare to be in that position, very important.
And as a result of those high expectations, we began to find
students
we wanted to work with to see what could we do to help them, not simply to survive in science and engineering, but to become the very best, to excel.
Secondly, the idea of building community among the
students.
Students
are not taught to work in groups.
So building community among those students, very important.
And so our
students
are working in labs regularly.
And one great example that you'll appreciate: During a snowstorm in Baltimore several years ago, the guy on our campus with this Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant literally came back to work in his lab after several days, and all these
students
had refused to leave the lab.
And then finally, if you've got the community and you've got the high expectations and you've got researchers producing researchers, you have to have people who are willing as faculty to get involved with those students, even in the classroom.
Because so many
students
are bored in class.
Many students, K-12 and in universities, don't want to just sit there and listen to somebody talk.
And what I'm saying is that what will make the difference will be building community among students, telling young women, young minority
students
and
students
in general, you can do this work.
I had no idea that it was possible for this little black boy in Birmingham to one day be president of a university that has
students
from 150 countries, where
students
are not there just to survive, where they love learning, where they enjoy being the best, where they will one day change the world.
They wrote books and articles promoting inductive method in all the sciences that were widely read by natural philosophers, university
students
and members of the public.
I used to teach my
students
that there are some things, you know, computers just aren't good at, like driving a car through traffic.
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