University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Speciality : Chemistry
programme: Chemistry

I was a grad student in organic chemistry. The faculty are globally-known for being ‘problematic’, to put it mildly. The level of abuse is very high, and the good people (ie: non-faculty, or non-organic faculty, or maybe new organic faculty?) have no ability to change it. I am white but I was shocked by the level of racism and sexism here. Any -ism you like, really. I guess otherwise, it prepared me well, once I’d got over the legitimate trauma of being in the organic chemistry department.