Orion Crest, Series_1

Chapter 159: The experiment begins

　　The Gordon Institute for Computational Materials needs research-oriented talents. Although short-term needs can be solved by recruiting people with high salaries, there is no future for an institute without the ability to cultivate its own talent.

　　From a long-term perspective, Orion needs a group of capable researchers to help him with his experiments. Meanwhile, he also needed to incubate more talents with the instruments and researchers he bought.

　　Although there was no guarantee that these students who came to him for internship would definitely choose to work in his institute after graduation, as long as one third of them could stay, it would be considered as not bad.

　　Orion was not particularly concerned about the gains and losses in this regard.

　　Unlike the usual entrepreneurial aims, he didn't do these things entirely for money or for any noble reasons. Even if it generates a little, it is merely a by-product of the reaction.

　　His purest purpose was simply to be able to conduct his own research as he pleased, to reveal the hidden secrets of the system, to see a more distant future.

　　And that, alone, would be difficult for him to achieve.

　　Therefore, during the conversation with Dean Walter, Orion put forward his request for people, stating that apart from recruiting a group of doctoral students to participate in his research, he also intended to recruit a group of master's and undergraduate students to participate in the project in the form of internships.

　　Dean Walter, a progressive reformer himself, immediately agreed to Orion's proposal.

　　Under the agreement between the Gordon Institute for Computational Materials and the University of Gordon, 30 undergraduates, 10 master's students and 1-3 PhDs will be recruited each year from the School of Chemistry to undertake basic and complementary research tasks as interns at the Institute for Computational Materials.

　　This number will be expanded further if the methodology proves viable.

　　Instead of delaying the students' studies, these internships will allow them to strengthen their understanding of their professional knowledge in practice.

　　Especially at undergraduate level, students' access to research is itself quite limited.

　　This is precisely why the students of the School of Chemistry participated enthusiastically as soon as the document from the university was issued.

　　Especially for juniors and seniors who intend to move into research, the enrollment rate was quite high, so much so that they had to be screened by sorting through their major GPAs in the end.

　　As for freshmen and sophomores, Orion also carved out a portion of the slots.

　　Although the younger students still need to strengthen their professional knowledge, they are all potentials and have a lot of capacity for improvement.

　　Even if they can't read the literature, can't do experiments, just stay in the lab to help clean up and listen to the bigwigs bragging, they can recognise a few more substances and broaden their horizons.

　　"The top students of our chemical institute are all on this list," taking a list and finding Orion, Dean Walter said in a half-joking tone, "We have to make a deal first, don't kidnap all the treasures of our chemical institute to study mathematics. "

　　Orion smiled and said, "Don't worry, I guarantee that as many people as I borrowed will be returned."

　　Computational materials science, as the name suggests, definitely has to study maths, but it is definitely still based on chemistry. The boundaries between disciplines and disciplines in cutting-edge fields of study weren't supposed to be all that clear, and it never hurt to learn more if you planned to go in the direction of research in the future.