Date: November 9, 2004 Time: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Location: Science House, North Carolina State University Fee: $292.50 non-members/ $249.00 CHAS members
Instructor:Dr. James Kaufman or Dr. W.H. (Jack) Breazeale

This classic presentation on laboratory safety by the Laboratory Safety Institute (LSI) has been attended by thousands of safety professions. With experience in both industrial and academic laboratories, Jim and Jack give a "real world" approach to safety issues in the laboratory. Their stories are both interesting and pertinent. Interactive demonstrations help you deal with everything from creative wiring in the lab to administrators without a vision of what it means to have safe workplace. Highly entertaining, and an excellent forum to speak openly about safety problems in your workplace.

Date: November 9, 2004 Time: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Location: Science House, North Carolina State University
Fee: $292.50 non-members/ $249.00 CHAS members
Instructor: Mr. Russell Phifer

This comprehensive one-day course will identify the various regulatory requirements that apply to laboratories that generate hazardous waste, as well as provide insight into the options for on-site management and off-site disposal. Focus will include discussion on recycling/reclamation techniques, economical handling of wastes, and liability issues. Mr. Phifer has over 25 years experience in managing laboratory wastes for academic and industrial laboratories and is a member and former chair of the ACS Task Force on Environmental Health & Safety.

NOVEMBER 10, 2004

Date: November 10, 2004 Time: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Location: Sheraton-Imperial
Fee: $292.50 non-members/ $249.00 CHAS members
Instructor: Dr. James Kaufman, Mr. Russell Phifer, Dr. George H.Wahl, Jr.

Take a close look at the Chemical Hygiene Officer position, and prepare at the same time for the "CHO" Certification exam to be held the next day. Kaufman, Phifer and Wahl give a different slant to safety issues in the laboratory, focusing on what you do and how you can do it better. The presenters bring a wide variety of experience to the table, but the real stars of the workshop are you - past attendees note the interactive approach focusing on their problems, from getting administrators involved in safety to dealing with regulatory concerns.

The course covers all of the content areas of the certification exam (presented on Sunday through NRCC), including a sample test in the same format as the real one. Whether you are a new Chemical Hygiene Officer or an "old" one, you will find something to put to real use in this fast-paced presentation. You can request an application packet for the Chemical Hygiene Officer certification examination by National Registry of Certified Chemists online at http://www.nrcc6.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2004

Date: Friday, November 12 Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Sheraton Imperial Hotel
Registration Fee: $10

The rapid advances in computer hardware and software over the last decade allow meaningful chemistry calculations to be performed on today's standard desktop computers. Chemists now have an additional tool available that is complementary to traditional experimental and theoretical techniques of investigation. Non-experts now have access to techniques that were once only available to specialists using supercomputers. Computational chemistry is also a powerful educational tool that can provide increased insight and understanding of many complex topics in the standard undergraduate curriculum. This workshop will focus on the methods, applications, and educational uses of molecular modeling and related computational techniques suitable for the undergraduate chemistry curriculum. Discussions of several computational chemistry topics will be followed by hands-on exercises. Emphasis will be placed on how computational techniques can be incorporated into the existing curriculum.

Date: Friday, November 12 Time: 8:00 AM
Location: Sheraton Imperial Hotel
Registration Fee: $10 (Div CINF members) $25 (non member rate - includes 1-year membership fee)
Instructor: Dr. Leah Solla, Cornell University, Ithica, NY

Workshop Description: Students need information to solve chemical problems and chemical information sources are rapidly increasing in number and variety. This workshop is designed to give faculty, instructors, teaching assistants, and librarians a range of approaches and tools for incorporating chemical information instruction into the chemistry curriculum. Topics include: key chemical information resources, information skills to teach, sources for teaching materials, examples of successful programs, and overcoming barriers to teaching chemical information.

NOVEMBER 13, 2004

Abstract: Recent developments in cognitive learning theory as well as results of classroom research suggest that most students experience improved learning when they are actively engaged and when they are given the opportunity to construct their own knowledge. These results counter the widespread misapprehension that effective teaching must be instructor-centered, involving the transfer of content directly from the expert (professor) to the novice (student). More "student-centered" approaches to learning are based on the premises that students will learn better when: they are actively engaged and thinking in class; they construct knowledge and draw conclusions by analyzing data and discussing ideas; they learn how to work together to understand concepts and solve problems; and the instructor serves as a facilitator to assist students in the learning process.
     This workshop will include discussion of the principles and philosophy of Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL), a student-centered method of instruction. Participants will experience the approach from a student's perspective and will be introduced to various instructional techniques that support a "student-centered" learning environment. To as great an extent as possible, the workshop will be tailored to the interests and needs of the attendees. Possible additional topics may include: discussion of specific materials and courses; overcoming barriers to implementation; facilitating this approach in the classroom, etc.

Date: Saturday, November 13 Time: 9:00 AM
Location: Sheraton Imperial Hotel
Registration Fee: $10

The workshop is primarily intended for high school chemistry educators who have had little or no experience in computational chemistry. An introduction to computational chemistry and modeling will be followed by a "hands on" portion where participants will use a variety of free or relatively inexpensive software. Emphasis will be placed on topics that will highlight the ways in which computational chemistry can be used as an educational resource to help increase student understanding of complex topics.

Date: Saturday, November 13 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Sheraton-Imperial, Bull Durham B
Registration Fee: $10

WebAssign as a tool for practice, engagement and assessment within different areas of chemistry.

In this workshop you will be introduced to ways in which instructors in various chemistry fields use WebAssign as a learning tool. Among the many types of questions and functions that are available in WebAssign, organic instructors use the JME editor as a means of having students input organic structures to be graded.

Examples will be given where WebAssign is used not only for prelab assignments in a quantitative chemical analysis laboratory, but also as an electronic notebook where student results are graded based on student data. When student data are used, penalties are imposed for data that are not within an acceptable range. The conditions for acceptable data are established by the instructor. In another example students are asked to propose a dilution scheme to prepare a solution that falls within a target range of concentrations and also to predict the concentration of the resulting solution. Both conditions must be met to receive credit for either.

Examples will also be presented on problems used in a freshman chemistry course. Included will be samples of reaction tables where the students answers will be used to calculate "keys" for partial credit if the correct solution process has been used and the use of equations to calculate "keys" where random numbers can be generated in a given problem.