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View from the inside: Chemistry Central takes on an intern

I’m Andrea Albright and since Monday November 5th I have been an editorial intern at Chemistry Central.  I will be working here for six weeks. I am a student at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, USA, where I am studying for my bachelor’s degree in chemistry. My particular area of interest in chemistry is organic chemistry, and last summer I participated in organic synthesis research, "Green Chemistry – Organic Synthesis in Ionic Liquids".

When I’m not in the office, my nose is usually in a book (fiction is my favorite), or I am teaching myself how to cook and making a mess of the kitchen. I enjoy learning foreign languages and travelling, especially to visit friends and family in exotic places.

Right now, I am taking a break from Iowa and spending an exciting semester studying in London.  I came to Chemistry Central, an innovative and exciting new open-access journal, in order to find a chemistry-related internship not directly on a lab bench. I am thrilled to explore the world of academic publishing. I hope to learn the ins and outs of the peer-review system and to discover if a career in publishing is right for me. I will continue to update this blog in the upcoming weeks in order to share what I have learned about the publishing process.

Posted by Andrea Albright at 16:31    Comments (0)