One night in spring 2005, Laura Muollo stayed up late trying to choose which chemistry graduate programme to attend. Although she had been accepted by big-name universities including Yale, Johns Hopkins and Northwestern, she settled on the lesser-known University of Massachusetts Lowell һ even though she would receive a lower stipend. Lowell offered her something that the other institutions could not at the time: the opportunity to focus heavily on green chemistry. "I decided that the name of the school couldn't make me happy, but doing what I wanted would," she says.
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