{"id":5170,"date":"2017-10-27T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/?p=5170"},"modified":"2017-10-27T08:30:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T15:30:07","slug":"jeffrey-kovac-70-ethical-chemist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2017\/10\/jeffrey-kovac-70-ethical-chemist\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Kovac &#8217;70, Ethical Chemist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life, by its very nature, constantly surprises, but certain aspects of life would seem to be under our personal control: what to study, how to apply that knowledge. As a young chemistry professor at U. Tennessee, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2016\/12\/what-is-an-ethical-chemist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jeffrey Kovac<\/strong><\/a>, thought he knew where his professional path was headed: a &#8220;conventional research agenda&#8221; in the laboratory, and a teaching schedule devoted to the staples of the chemistry curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff&#8217;s path took an unexpected turn in the late 1980s, however, when he began developing a new course for his undergraduate students.\u00a0\u201cI was teaching the capstone course in chemistry that was supposed to look at the field from a broader perspective,\u201d he said. \u201cThere were stories of scientific misconduct in the press, so I decided to introduce ethics into the course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The larger story of how Jeff turned these stories into his 1993 book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ethical-Chemist-Professionalism-Ethics-Science\/dp\/0131411322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Ethical Chemist<\/strong><\/a>, and the three decades of surprises he found along this unexpected path, can be found in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/keyreporter.org\/PbkNews\/PbkNews\/Details\/2354.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>An Ethical Chemist<\/strong><\/a> by Grant Currin (The Key Reporter, 25 Oct 2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life, by its very nature, constantly surprises, but certain aspects of life would seem to be under our personal control: what to study, how to apply that knowledge. As a young chemistry professor at U. Tennessee, Jeffrey Kovac, thought he&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2017\/10\/jeffrey-kovac-70-ethical-chemist\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Jeffrey Kovac &#8217;70, Ethical Chemist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170","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=5170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5173,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5170\/revisions\/5173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}