The first in her family to go to college, Jocelyn Nadeau entered Smith College intending to major in psychology. But Stuart Rosenfeld, a professor of chemistry, changed all that when, in her sophomore year, he took her under his wing and gave her the opportunity to conduct research.
Not only did she get "a realistic picture of research," says the Charlestown, NH, native, but she was also encouraged to think about graduate school. Ten years later, Nadeau, now 30, has joined Marist College as an assistant professor of chemistry after completing a PhD at Brown University and postdoc work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"I got a sense of what [Rosenfeld] did, and I could see myself in his shoes," Nadeau says about her decision to work at a small college. "He led by example."
For Marcus Fairly, who earned a master's degree in bioscience, the decision regarding the ...
