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When Racquel Jemison struggled in a chemistry class as an undergrad at Morgan State University in Baltimore, her professor approached her about doing research for him. Jemison was incredulous. “ ‘Wait a minute,’ I thought. I’m already struggling in this class and you want me to do research?” But doing the extra work strengthened Jemison’s understanding of certain chemistry concepts.
“For example, Stoichiometry is used to convert quantities or to relate reactants to products in a reaction, in one metric to another, like grams to milligrams; or if you want to know how many molecules are in a gram of something, or if I want to make 10 liters of something, how am I going to do it? So one way of honing understanding is to actually be in the lab and having to do it,” says Jemison.
