{"id":207061,"date":"2023-07-17T17:12:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T21:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chemistry-biochemistry\/?p=207061"},"modified":"2023-07-17T17:12:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T21:12:36","slug":"hot-summer-days-ignite-scientific-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chemistry-biochemistry\/2023\/07\/17\/hot-summer-days-ignite-scientific-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Summer Days Ignite Scientific Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty members play a key role in identifying and training undergraduates. \u201cI encourage them to think on their own because that\u2019s where the real creativity comes from,\u201d says Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor David Rotella, director of the Sokol Institute for Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Professors know that you\u2019re new and that you\u2019re learning. They\u2019re excited about being a part of your process, which makes it easy to have the vulnerability to try new things in the lab and be unafraid to ask the questions you need to ask to grow as a scientist.<\/p>\n<footer><cite>Rachel Gushikem, a junior Biochemistry major mentored by Dr. Rotella<\/cite><\/footer>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The students\u2019 research choices reflect what they care about and problems they want to solve. \u201cThat\u2019s where the passion comes from,\u201d observes College of Science and Mathematics Dean Lora Billings. \u201cOur faculty are very good at keeping projects moving, at teaching students resilience and persistence, and when things don\u2019t go as planned, that there\u2019s always a silver lining in there somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"\/newscenter\/2023\/07\/17\/hot-summer-days-ignite-scientific-minds\/\">what CSAM students are researching this summer<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department students talk about their research this summer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":207062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-students-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207063,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207061\/revisions\/207063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/chemistry-biochemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}