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Chegg, an online student services platform that rents students textbooks and other study materials, is cooperating with professors in Boston University’s chemistry and physics departments after it was discovered students were using the platform to cheat on online exams. ILLUSTRATION BY AUSMA PALMER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Chemistry and physics departments looking to limit cheating

Allison Pirog April 28, 2020
BU professors in the Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics professors are working with Chegg, an online student services platform where users can rent textbooks and get tutoring help, to crack down on students using the site to cheat on quizzes after evidence surfaced last week.
Tom Tullius, professor of chemistry at Boston University, advises incoming freshmen to prioritize academics in order to make the most of their BU careers. PHOTO COURTESY OF TOM TULLIUS

Q&A with General Chemistry II professor Tom Tullius, an academic at heart

Becca DeGregorio September 11, 2014

Despite the eye rolling that prerequisite courses and library overnights induce, the true formula for success remains two parts curiosity, three parts passion and all parts hard work. The Daily Free...

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