Chemical Education Today
Volume 85: Celebrating Journal Milestones
All Back Issues Are Now Available! The scanning project is complete! This means that subscribers have at their fingertips all of the articles that have been published during all issues of all 84 years of the JCE. You can find articles either by searching in the JCE Index online (http:// www.jce.divched.org/Journal/Search/index.html) or by browsing by year and issue or range of pages (http://www.jce.divched.org/ Journal/Issues/index.html). We thank the many UW–Madison students who scanned and archived the issues and the JCE staff headed by Jon Holmes and Betty Moore who oversaw the project. A sampling of what you can find appears below. Here are some other interesting things to look for: (1) first article on high school chemistry; (2) the “Piaget for Chemists” article referred to in Dudley Herron’s award address (p 24); (3) the first article describing a laboratory exercise (hint: it involves building models and includes a template); (4) an editorial and a description
of the first Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (held at Snowmass-at-Aspen, CO in July 1970); (5) Hubert Alyea’s first Tested Demonstrations article; (6) the first article describing a “Lecture Table Experiment”; (7) the first article in the Microscale Laboratory column, and who were the co-authors in addition to Dana Mayo and Ronald Pike? (8) a description of a green chemistry course published in 1995; (9) early papers on the teaching of crystal field theory; (10) the first article in the Computer Series; (11) first cover containing a chemistry sudoku puzzle. As you peruse the greatly expanded resources now available you will probably find infelicities, omissions, and downright errors. Please let us know when you find any of these so that we can fix them. If you like what you find, or come up with a gem brighter than those listed above and below, let us know that as well. Happy searching and browsing!
Mine the Journal’s resources. All of them!
It is hoped that the chemistry teachers may glean from the above that this Journal is their property, and hence criticisms, both pro and con, are earnestly requested by editors in order that each succeeding issue may contain many improvements. JCE 1924, 1, 1
The Journal has served the field of chemical education for twentyfive years and I think it is not mere boasting to suggest that its influence is partly responsible for the fact that in no other professional field of science is so much thought and attention given to the problems of education and training. JCE 1948, 25, 645
Norris Rakestraw
The two most available sources of chemical information the student has are his text and his professor. These should be distinguished from each other by observing that the latter is alive. The classes in which this is most obvious will be those from which our supply of future scientists for both the laboratory and the classroom will come. JCE 1955, 32, 549
William F. Kieffer
Perhaps it is not too trite to suggest that all of the exciting new knowledge, all the important new research, all the great new ideas developed by our generation and those that preceded us have neither lasting meaning nor real significance unless the young people of today and tomorrow can appreciate them enough to use them in discovery and building the better world for which they search. JCE 1967, 44, 489
W. T. Lippincott
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