Attachment 3: Introduction of Research Seminar
Research Seminar on
Advanced Instrumental Analysis
International Education Program for MA and Advanced Studies
Faculty of Chemistry, Northeast Normal University, China
2012, 2013, 2014，2015，2016
An organizational group of international scholars and graduate students, with various cultural and academic backgrounds, of the faculty of chemistry of Northeast Normal University (NENU), proposed to organize a research seminar on Advanced Analytical Chemistry in each term. This international research seminar proposal was successfully approved by the Faculty of Chemistry of NENU as a core required course of the curriculum of International Education Program for MA and Advanced Studies of NENU.
This research seminar aims to cultivate students' independent research and academic communication skills, and to invite international famous scholars and professors to demonstrate their frontier research experience in analytical chemistry. At the same time to guide and train students to experience from participating in the organization, presentation, discussion and feedback of the whole process, in order to exercise and improve the student's academic communication and academic research ability.
Supervised by the core faculty member of the faculty of chemistry, the Research Seminar is administrated by the Seminar Committee, which consists of voluntary scholars of the program. Since 2010, the research seminar has successfully hosted 64 regular sessions and over ten special sessions. The seminars have covered diverse research issues of education, psychology, culture, art and music, and other important topics related to education.
The seminar is open to other researchers and scholars from broader areas that are willing to share their researches and experience. The seminar has been constructed, and will continue to be, a communication platform for advanced analytical chemistry at NENU and beyond.
The structure and the procedure of the seminar
1. Organizing the seminar committee
2. Inviting and reviewing proposals (by the committee)
3. Presenting and collecting and summarizing feedbacks for the speakers
Requirements for the members of the program:
1. All members are required to attend all the sessions consistently in the first academic year and participate most of the sessions of the second academic year.
2. All members of the first year are required to present once a semester and the graduate students in the second year are encouraged to present their thesis research.