My Major......In Mind

Let's take a look at one of the fields my undecided behind is leaning towards... Chemistry! 

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1.What do students in your program or department learn how to do?

Students in the field of chemistry, according to mymajors.com, is  "A general program that focuses on the scientific study of the composition and behavior of matter, including its micro- and macro-structure, the processes of chemical change, and the theoretical description and laboratory simulation of these phenomena."

2.What do people who get degrees in this field usually go on to do for work?

From a forum that I read on majors in Chemistry, most people tend to go into being lab technicians or assistants. That is, they work for a R&D team where...from what I read, they do most of the work and do not get much paid compared to the leader of the team. Others become professors or work in blood testing.

3.What drew you to this field?

Since I took Chemistry in high school, I have always been interested and found a certain skill for Chemistry. I find it interesting that you can combine things such as compounds or molecules to form something else. The perfect example is say in baking or cooking. Chemistry is involved in those things such as the heat of the oven causing the cake mix to interact and form into a baked cake. 

4.Name three of the leaders/most exciting people involved in this field right now in 2016. Why are they interesting or exciting to you? These could be individual people or specific companies, organizations, businesses or non-profits. Hyperlink us to a homepage professional website for each person, if possible.

Someone truly exciting to mention is UCSB Michelle O'Malley who is doing research on making certain foods into actual fuel you can use for your car. Next, there are some researchers from UTA who are figuring out a way to make Carbon Dioxide and Water into usable fuel.  My last mention for an exciting company as of now is the Johnson & Johnson company. That company produces so many great products from baby hand soap to dang Tylenol! 

5.What are the names of three leading academic/scholarly journals in your field? Where are they published? Give us the names and locations of at least 3. Make the titles of each journal into a working hyperlink to the website for that publication. (NOTE: if your links aren’t included or don’t work or if the page it directs us to is blocked from public view, I will not be able to assign you full credit for this exercise).

1) The Chemical Reviews Journal is published here in the United States.

2) The Journal of Chemical Research, published from the UK to the world. 

3) The Advances in Chemistry is a series of journal publications published here in the USA.