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If I look back over my life,
whatever success I have

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is directly due to three or four
different people along the way.

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Having an individual impact
on an individual life-- that's

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what means so much to me.

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We're able to gain from him
what he's gained from others.

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I think that will trickle
down to everyone else

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that we come in contact with.

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Dean is kind of a huge
figure, I think, in our lives.

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He's a big guy in the
chemistry department,

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but he'll give you one
on one time for hours.

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I'm the chair of the
Department of Chemistry.

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But in addition to my
administrative duties,

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I have my teaching
responsibilities,

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and I have my responsibilities
to my grad students

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and our research group.

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The Harman Research
Group is a group

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of five to six graduate
students that are working

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towards their PhD in chemistry.

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We focus on organic
synthesis as directed

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toward pharmaceutical design.

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The goal of a PhD
program is the research.

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But there's another
huge piece, which

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is the development of the
student, the development

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of those relationships and
that trust that's built.

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Because you can get a whole
lot more done if you're

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working as a team than
if you have individuals

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that feel that they're
competing against each other.

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We make sure to spend
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where we can just socialize.

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When you're in those
situations, where

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you're playing basketball, it
sets up the basic relationship

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of trust.

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It helps us see each other
in a different light,

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and that kind of makes it
easier to go back into lab

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and really join up as
a team there as well.

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I don't think I'd say that Dean
has improved my experience.

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I think he's made my
experience at UVA, because

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of the lifestyle that he has
created for the students who

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get to join his lab.

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He shows us how to behave
as chemists, as scientists.

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He gave me the ability to really
critically think for myself,

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something that I honestly
believe will help me forever.

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When they come into the
lab, I don't say, OK, here's

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your project.

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Your goal is to do this,
and then you graduate.

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I can't think that way.

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I come in and say, your goal
is to come and be a scientist.

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You're going to learn
how to be a scientist.

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You're going to explore.

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And that's a strange
thing for them at first.

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"But you're just telling me
just go with my curiosity."

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Exactly.

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I want you to go into lab
and follow your curiosity.

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That's how you're going to
find the next big thing.

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