{"id":3915,"date":"2012-02-28T13:23:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T21:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2012\/02\/28\/does-a-reed-chemistry-degree-help-you-publish-in-science\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:44","slug":"does-a-reed-chemistry-degree-help-you-publish-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2012\/02\/does-a-reed-chemistry-degree-help-you-publish-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Does a Reed Chemistry Degree Help You Publish in Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would I be overstating the facts if I said that papers published in Science magazine meet a higher standard for scientific importance and\/or achievement? Probably not. And, as many scientists know, that&#8217;s why it is so darn hard to get a paper published in Science. They only accept a few.<\/p>\n<p>It appears, though, that one strategy for becoming one of the lucky few to have &#8220;published in Science&#8221; is to make sure one of your co-authors has a degree from Reed. Here are two recent samples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/335\/6069\/694.abstract\"><b>&#8220;Determination of Noncovalent Docking by Infrared Spectroscopy of Cold Gas-Phase Complexes&#8221;<\/b><\/a>, <i>Science<\/i> 10 Feb 2012, vol. 335, p. 694, Etienne Garand, Michael Z. Kamrath, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yale.edu\/millerlab\/members.html\"><b>Peter A. Jordan &#8217;03<\/b><\/a>, Arron B. Wolk, Christopher M. Leavitt, Anne B. McCoy, Scott J. Miller, Mark A. Johnson<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/335\/6065\/221.abstract\"><b>&#8220;Cytoplasmic Dynein Moves Through Uncoordinated Stepping of the AAA+ Ring Domains&#8221;<\/b><\/a>, Science 13 Jan 2012, vol. 335, p. 221, <a href=\"http:\/\/biophysics.berkeley.edu\/index.php\/students\/2008-2\/mark-dewitt\"><b>Mark A. DeWitt &#8217;06<\/b><\/a>, Amy Y. Chang, Peter A. Combs, Ahmet Yildiz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<b>Peter<\/b> was back on the Reed campus to present a Chemistry seminar<br \/>\non his work, &#8220;The Discovery and Study of Peptide-based Catalysts for<br \/>\nOrganic Synthesis: Synthetic Methods and IR Spectroscopy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PeterJordan03_at_Yale_Miller_group.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/files\/photos\/PeterJordan03_at_Yale_Miller_group.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" width=\"100\" height=\"124\" \/> <b>Peter <\/b>as he appears at Yale<b><br \/><\/b>and <b>Mark <\/b>as he appears at Berkeley <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MarkDewitt_UCB_Yildiz_group.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/files\/photos\/MarkDewitt_UCB_Yildiz_group.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would I be overstating the facts if I said that papers published in Science magazine meet a higher standard for scientific importance and\/or achievement? Probably not. And, as many scientists know, that&#8217;s why it is so darn hard to get&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2012\/02\/does-a-reed-chemistry-degree-help-you-publish-in-science\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Does a Reed Chemistry Degree Help You Publish in Science?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4292,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions\/4292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}