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The Merit Workshop is intended to increase the retention of minority students and women in the sciences/math/ engineering programs, and to encourage students to consider graduate study. Since its inception the program has targeted students in mainstream general chemistry and recently has expanded into the accelerated freshman sequence for chemical sciences majors and into the first-semester organic chemistry courses for majors and non-majors.
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