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New York, Sept 7-11 2003 ACS 226th National Meeting Program - Division of Chemical Education Frank Torre, Program Chair Meeting Chairs: Paul Kelter, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of
North Carolina-Greensboro,Greensboro, NC 27410, 336-334-3941, fax
336-334-5402, paulkelter@yahoo.com Gabriela Weaver, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West
Lafayette, IN 47907-1393, 765-496-3055, fax 765-494-0239, gweaver@purdue.edu Abstract
Deadline: May 6, 2003
(anticipated) - Important: Check OAsys for exact date! 1. New Directions
in Non-traditional Instruction . Bob Blake,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Box 41061, Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, TX 79409-1061, (806) 742-4200, fax (806) 742-1289 bob.blake@ttu.edu With
the advent of new technologies and the increase in the amount and quality of
education research, there are many opportunities for advancement of pedagogy
in chemistry classrooms and laboratories. This symposium is a forum for
people who are implementing or planning new strategies for education or are
applying old strategies in radical new ways to showcase their projects. 2. The Electrochemistry
That All Students Should Know. Carlos Castro Acuna, Depto. de Fisicoquímica, Facultad de Química, Edificio B, Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán, 04510, D.F. México, (52 55) 56223809,
fax (52 55) 56223761 castroacuna02@yahoo.com How can the current physical
chemistry curriculum, including content and teaching strategies, be modified
to best help students learn? For this symposium we invite presentations
focused on exploring what are the main concepts of electrochemistry that all
students should comprehend and what are the most important and recent
developments in electrochemistry that ought to be in the undergraduate
chemistry curriculum. 3. Freshman Chemistry for Engineers. James D. Carr, Department of Chemistry,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0304, 402-472-3514, fax
402-472-9862 jcarr@unlserve.unl.edu Engineering students are an important
clientele for chemistry departments at universities housing engineering
schools. Many disciplines in engineering require only a single semester
of chemistry whereas other disciplines require considerably more. In
this symposium we will try to answer the many questions about how to best
serve these students in their freshman year. 4. Bridging the Gap-Mentoring K-12
Teachers Stacey Gillespie, Chemistry Department, Campus Box 2625, Elon University,
(336) 278-6224, fax(336)
278-7699, Stacey.Gillespie@elon.edu Some K-12 teachers enter the schools being
under-prepared or uncomfortable teaching science. College and university
science educators can be valuable resources to these teachers. This symposium
will include novel and well established collaborative programs between K-12
teachers and institutions of higher education. 5. Implementing Modern Chemical
Education-Related Strategies in the Two-Year College John Kenkel, Southeast Community College,
8800 “O” Street, Lincoln, NE 68520, 402-437-2485, fax 402-437-2404 jkenkel@scc.cc.ne.us This symposium will report on personal
successes of educators in the two-year colleges - successes relating to the
implementation of modern chemistry educational strategies. Such strategies will include the use
of the Internet or modern technology to improve student learning, use of the
Internet or other methods for distance education, unique assessment strategies,
special cooperative learning techniques, and the like. 6. Teaching Biochemistry to the New
Generation of Students. Pam Kerrigan, Manhattan College/College of Mount Saint
Vincent, Joined Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry 4513 Manhattan
College Parkway, Riverdale, NY 10471
718-862-7211, fax 718-862-7209 pam.kerrigan@manhattan.edu; Suzanne E.
Rudnick, Manhattan College/College of Mount Saint Vincent, Joined Departments
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 4513 Manhattan College Parkway, Riverdale, NY
10471, 718-862-7430, fax 718-862-7209 suzanne.rudnick@manhattan.edu The goal of this all day symposium is to
discuss undergraduate biochemistry curriculum and the introductory
biochemistry courses and laboratories.
This symposium will have two parts. One focus concerns the challenges presented in the
classroom portion of the curriculum.
These include balancing traditional biochemistry topics such as
metabolism with newer developments in the field such as bioinformatics. In
addition the use of computer-assisted teaching will be addressed. The other focus will address the
challenges in the laboratory.
The discussions will include designing laboratory experiments,
introducing new techniques with traditional approaches and evaluation of laboratory
performance. 7. Instructional Developments in Organic
Chemistry Education. Michael Mosher, Department of Chemistry,
University of Nebraska at Kearney, 905 W. 25th, Kearney, NE 68849-1150, (308) 865-8385, fax (308)
865-8399 mosherm@unk.edu This symposium will feature presentations
in the areas of textbook advances, the use of websites and multimedia tools,
and the use of real-world examples to teaching organic chemistry. Particular emphasis will include the
use of real-world examples and multimedia as tools to teach organic chemistry
at the college-level. 8. Developments in Chemical Technician
Education. Sam Stevenson, American Chemical Society,
1155 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036, (202) 872-6108, fax (202)
872-8086, s_stevenson@acs.org There are an estimated 700,000
technicians in the US chemical process industry, and they are part of a
rapidly growing profession. To support growth in technology and the
changing ways companies conduct business, new and exciting developments are
taking place in chemical technician education. National skill standards
have been developed, alliances between industry, education, labor and
government are being forged, and standardized curriculum materials are being
developed. In this symposium we will present work that is taking
place in these areas. 9. National Science Foundation Symposium:
Improvements in the Undergraduate Curriculum Catalyzed by the Instrumentation and
Laboratory Improvement (ILI) and the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement -
Adaptation and Implementation (CCLI-A&I) Programs Robert Boggess, National Science
Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230, (703) 292-4640,
fax (703) 292-9015 rboggess@nsf.gov Invited speakers are Principal
Investigators of awards within the past five years from the above NSF
programs. 10. Science and Society: Linking Chemistry
with Service Learning and Public Policy Issues Jennifer Sorensen, Chemistry Department,
Seattle University, 900 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122, tel: 206-296-5411, fax:
206-296-5786, sorensj1@seattleu.edu. Trace Jordan, New York University, 100
Washington Square East, Room 903, New York, NY 10003, tel: 212-998-8078, fax:
212-995-4055, trace.jordan@nyu.edu. Many educators are exploring the links
between chemistry and broader societal issues. One approach is to engage students
through service learning, a combination of experiential learning, community
service, and guided reflection.
Another approach is to use complex public policy issues as a framework
for teaching the relevant science; this method is being developed by the
NSF-sponsored SENCER initiative (Science Education for New Civic Engagements
& Responsibilities). Both of these pedagogies encourage students to
extend their education beyond the classroom. This symposium will present a
variety of educational insights and best practices that address the goal of
linking chemistry with civic, policy, and societal perspectives. Some guiding
questions include: 1.
How do chemical educators make the connection between science and
service? 2.
How can complex civic issues be linked to foundational topics in
science? 3. What does research, both within and
outside of chemistry, indicate about these pedagogies? 11. Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment
of Molecular Modeling in the Undergraduate Curriculum Julie B. Ealy, Penn State University,
Academic Building 8380 Mohr
Lane, Fogelsville, PA 18051-9999 Tel =
610-285-5115 610-285-5220
(fax), jbe10@psu.edu Are you using molecular modeling in your
undergraduate chemistry course? If so, how are you assessing your students'
use of it in chemistry? Students self-report that molecular modeling enhances
their understanding at the microscopic level. Certainly when an instructor
talks about a dipole and the asymmetry of a molecule, the same images can be
shared by both the students and the instructor when molecular modeling is
used. This symposium welcomes contributions about how instructors have
specifically assessed their students and the results of the assessment of
their students' use of molecular modeling. 12. The Interface of Chemistry and Biology.
Abhijit Mitra, Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, Manhattan College/College of Mount St. Vincent, 4513 Manhattan
College Parkway, Riverdale, NY, 10471, Telephone: 718-862-7109, Fax: 718-862-7814
abhijit.mitra@manhattan.edu The symposium will focus on the new and
challenging areas of chemistry probing the biological problems in the areas
of genomics, proteomics and glycobiology. 13. Unifying Research and Education Using
Principles and Applications of Modern Spectroscopy. Luis Avila, Leonard Fine (Chair) and
Bhawani Venkataraman (Columbia University), and Thomas Poon (Scripps,
Claremont, McKenna, and Pitzer Colleges) It has been said that "light is the
messenger of the universe" but it is spectroscopy that makes the message
intelligent. From research and development to education and training,
scientists and technologists are informed by signals from nature using
spectrometers, unnatural devices
of our own designs. In the laboratory and the classroom, spectroscopy has
unified teaching and learning. Sessions I and III (morning sessions) will
offer invited papers on spectroscopic principles and practices ranging from
theory to applications. Particularly, Sessions I and III will each be
composed of 6 30-minute presentations by recognized authorities; Sessions II
and IV (afternoon sessions) will bring together twice as many 15-minute
papers accommodating invited and unsolicited papers of general or directed
interest, attracted to the symposium by the title and the topic. We would expect to find papers from college
and university faculty as well as industry and national laboratories. Some of
our own work (on which we will report) is funded by the NSF-CCLI and the
Chemistry Division/ Math and Physical Sciences. We would also expect the
range of papers to include traditional (IR, NMR, etc) as well as
nontraditional (ICP, CD, Computational methods, etc). 14. Communicating Chemistry II. Leonard W. Fine, Department of Chemistry,
Columbia University, Havemeyer Hall MC3108, New York, N 10027, Tel:
212.854.2017, Fax: 212.932.1289, fine@chem.columbia.edu; John Kotz. In this time of national and international
political and economic uncertainty chemists more than ever must communicate
the benefits, risks, and accomplishments of our discipline to the public and
to our students. The purpose of this symposium, a sequel to the Communicating
Chemistry symposium held at the Orlando ACS meeting, is to illustrate the
importance and methods of communication. Papers in the symposium can
encompass, but are not limited to, print and broadcast science journalism,
multimedia presentations, textbooks and their design, university courses in
chemistry, and scientific illustration. 15. Gender and Achievement: Multiple Paths to Success in
Chemistry. Mary Nakhleh, Departments of Chemistry and
Curriculum & Instruction, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
47907-1393, phone: 765-494-5314
fax: 765-494-0239, mnakhleh@purdue.edu Increasingly, women are contributing
significantly to the chemical enterprise at all levels and in both academia
and industry. However, their career pathways are not always straightforward
or clearly marked, even to themselves.
Therefore, women embarking on chemical careers may not fully perceive
all the ways in which they can contribute their expertise and/or reconcile
the demands of their career with their personal life. This symposium will allow women
chemists from all academic and industrial areas and levels to share their
experiences in the hope of identifying some of the opportunities (and
negotiating strategies) they have found along the many roads to success. 16.
Research in Chemistry Education Jennifer
Lewis, Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler
Avenue, SCA 424, Tampa, FL 33620-5250, phone: (813)974-1286, fax:
(813)974-3203 jlewis@chuma1.cas.usf.edu; Susan Shadle, Department of
Chemistry, Boise State University, 1910 University Drive, Boise, ID 83725,
phone: (208)426-3153, Fax: (208)426-3027 (fax) sshadle@chem.boisestate.edu This
symposium, sponsored by the CHED Committee on Chemistry Education Research,
will provide a forum for the exploration of research conducted on the
teaching and learning of chemistry. Papers will address three aspects of
chemistry education research: 1) the motivation for the research and the type
of problems investigated; 2) the methodology used to gather and interpret the
collected data; 3) the findings and the significance of their interpretation. 17. Student Focused Active Learning Across
the Curriculum. Rick Moog, Department of Chemistry,
Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17604, 717 291 3804, FAX 717
291 4343, rick.moog@fandm.edu and Jim Spencer, Department of Chemistry,
Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 17604, 717 291 3807 FAX 717
291 4343, jim.spencer@fandm.edu. Guided Inquiry Learning courses for general
chemistry. organic chemistry, and physical chemistry have been used in a
variety of classroom settings.
The use of guided inquiry instruction with respect to classroom
management and the pedagogical basis for this methodology will be addressed
in this symposium. 18. General Poster Papers. (Sunday evening) 19. General Oral Papers. (Thursday) 20. Undergraduate Research Posters LaTrease E. Garrison, Undergraduate Program
Office, American Chemical Society, 1155 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington,
DC 20036, 202-872-6166, FAX
202-872-8068, l_garrison@acs.org 21. Successful Student Affiliates Chapter
Posters (Sci-Mix) LaTrease E. Garrison, Undergraduate Program
Office, American Chemical Society, 1155 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington,
DC 20036, 202-872-6166, FAX
202-872-8068, l_garrison@acs.org |
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