Splash Biography
BENJAMIN RUDSHTEYN, Yale Graduate Student in Chemistry
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
Benjamin Rudshteyn is a third-year chemistry student at Yale in the group of Victor S. Batista. He uses computational chemistry to study problems important to solar energy and carbon dioxide mitigation. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)E1837: Chemophobia: What's a Chemical? in Sprout Spring 16 (Feb. 13 - 27, 2016)
This class gives an overview of the phenomenon of chemophobia, the fear of chemicals (not of organic chemistry as a class!). It will define the terminology of chemicals, including the difference between natural and artificial chemicals and how one is not necessarily better than the other.
E1838: Scientists Behaving Badly: Plagiarism, Fabrication of Data, and worse in Sprout Spring 16 (Feb. 13 - 27, 2016)
Scientists are supposed to follow the Scientific Method, but sometimes they mess up along the way. We will discuss stories of data fabrication, plagiarism, misrepresentation of data, and more. Sometimes it is not even their fault. Do not believe everything you read. Case studies include the Bengu Sezen affair, the spoof article by John Bohannon, and the curious "nano chopsticks".
E1669: Chemophobia: What's a Chemical? in Sprout Fall 15 (Oct. 03 - 17, 2015)
This class gives an overview of the phenomenon of chemophobia, the fear of chemicals (not of organic chemistry as a class!). It will define the terminology of chemicals, including the difference between natural and artificial chemicals and how one is not necessarily better than the other.
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