Letters: October 2025
Readers discuss chemistry degree uptake, isotope analysis best practice and green cosmetics
Changing away from chemistry
I’d like to thank Rebecca Trager for her excellent articles on the important subject of the changing status of chemistry departments. These articles, along with the publication of my research on degree attainment of various disciplines form a complementary study. Scientists interested in the future of Stem disciplines will find it helpful.
My interest in the statistics grew directly from my discussions with Rebecca comparing chemistry departments closing, merging or combining in the UK vs the US. She had the UK university names, and I had the US university names. My experiences with pre-med undergrads doing research with me led me to collect these statistics to explore possible reasons for these changes.