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Committee Reports, October 2007 Executive Committee Report Donald Wink, Secretary The Division Executive Committee met at the Boston national meeting. Several important items were discussed. One prominent item involved plans to move forward with task forces for the Division Strategic Plan, discussed below. In addition, the Committee voted to reorganize the Web Committee to be composed of a liaison from each Division committee and two cochairs, one appointed and the other the Division Secretary. This new structure will allow Division committees to have a person responsible for developing and managing that committee’s portion of the Division Web site at http://www.divched.org/. The new Division bylaws, which have been certified by ACS, now allow for the electronic distribution of information to Division members and for the development of electronic voting for Division elections; the new bylaws are at http://www.divched. org/DivCHED/DivCHEDByLaws_July2007.pdf (accessed Oct 2007). The Committee agreed to have the Secretary lead a task force to suggest how best to implement these options in 2008; it was also agreed that electronic balloting would only be an option, not a requirement, for 2008.

Late-Breaking News: CHED Social Event At the Boston ACS National Meeting, the DivCHED executive committee decided to change the type of format and schedule for the Division social meeting. While the Saturday night Division dinner has been quite successful, we are seeking a less expensive and less time intensive format that might attract more Division members. For example, the social reception for the German scholars at the ACS Boston meeting on Sunday evening was very successful. This was a public event that attracted a good number of people. Therefore, at the Spring ACS Meeting in New Orleans the Division will not have a dinner. Instead, we will try a social reception on Sunday, April 6, around 5:30 p.m., before the Division poster session. No ticket will be required for this event. We will serve southern hors d’oeuvres and have a cash bar. There will be brief introductions of Division officers and ACS chemical education award winners. Cengage Learning, the ACS Education Division, the ACS DivCHED Examinations Institute, and the Journal of Chemical Education will co-sponsor this event. Further details will be announced in the February 2008 issue of this Journal and will also be announced in meeting information from the Division and the ACS.

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Division Boards The Executive Committee appointed these individuals to three-year terms (from 2008–2010) on Division boards. Board of Publication: Diane Bunce Board of Trustees, Exams Institute: Marcy Towns

In addition, an interim vacancy on the Board of Publication that arose in June, 2007, has been filled between National Meetings through the appointment of Christopher Bauer. Division Strategic Plan In June 2007 the Division Chair, Melanie Cooper, convened a meeting to develop a strategic plan for the Division aimed at improving member services. As announced in July, the five goals of the plan are for the Division are

1. Implement a social networking infrastructure

2. Identify professional development and mentoring opportunities for CHED members

3. Provide access to already-developed quality resources, including those developed by CHED, that enhance the teaching and learning of chemistry

4. Facilitate the exchange of resources for the teaching and learning of chemistry within the ACS and with national and international organizations by 2010

5. Carry out a review and assessment of the Division to create greater efficiency

At the Boston meeting, Cooper reviewed the results of the discussion that occurred after the release of the plan, and the Committee agreed to have task forces appointed to develop specific plans to implement the goals. A sixth task force will also be convened to develop plans to communicate the new initiatives effectively to members. All are to report to the Committee at the New Orleans meeting in Spring 2008. Business Meeting Report Donald Wink, Secretary At the Boston National Meeting, the Division Business Meeting was held at a new time, at the end of the morning sessions on Monday. This move, agreed to at the Chicago meeting in Spring 2007, was intended to make it more convenient for members to attend, and indeed attendance doubled from previous years. Those present agreed to continue having the meeting at this or a similar time. In addition, a lively discussion of the way to manage the Division social event at national meetings occurred. The social event has recently been at a dinner on Saturday evening. As with a similar discussion of the Executive Committee, those at the Business Meeting agreed that the Membership Committee had been doing very good work to provide the best possible dinner meeting experience for a reasonable price. However, continuing to have such an event at a good venue near the meeting has become more difficult and the Saturday evening meeting time was

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not convenient for some members. So the discussion reviewed other options, for an event during the meeting days (Sunday– Thursday) in a setting that would allow more members to attend and at a lower cost, though perhaps without a full dinner. The expanded attendance at the Business Meeting had the advantage of allowing for a fuller exchange of ideas about serving members, both at national meetings and elsewhere. For information about the social event at the Spring ACS Meeting, see Late Breaking News: CHED Social Event at the bottom of p 34. Monthly Notice of JCE Publication Online Melanie Cooper, Division Chair in 2007, and Donald Wink, Secretary, have arranged with JCE staff to post a monthly notice to DivCHED members when each new issue of the Journal becomes available online. This will include brief comments by the Chair about the content of that Journal issue and a direct link to the new issue’s Web page. Members who are also Journal subscribers will be able to access Journal content in a more timely manner and all Division members will be able to stay abreast of the latest information from the Journal. This is part of the effort by the Division to improve communication among members and to help members stay up-to-date on the most recent research and practice information in chemical education Journal of Chemical Education John Moore, Editor This first issue in Volume 85 is a good time to note a JCE milestone and to describe changes in format and content that begin this month. You may already have noticed some changes as you have paged through this issue. Other changes involve JCE Online, and the ChemEd Digital Library, so look for them on line. For more information see pages 22, 23, 25, and 27. Milestone: 2032 Pages in Volume 84 When Volume 84 was winding down and we numbered the pages in the December issue, the last page was 2032. Wow! That’s the biggest page number in JCE history. The staff has made a special effort to reduce to a bare minimum the time from acceptance to publication, which means we have been printing more pages. First Change: New Appearance Starting at the beginning of Volume 85, you may have noticed a fresh, new approach. The table of contents is now spread over four pages instead of three. The first three pages have a different, more open appearance but their content is similar to previous volumes. The fourth page is completely new and consists of easy-to-use pointers to what we think you will want to find on JCE Online. This includes material that is available only in JCE Online—not printed at all. Editors’ Weblogs: Your Feedback Requested Both the editor and the Secondary School Section editor are now posting each editorial and each Especially for High School Teachers column to the Expert Voices blog of the Nation-

al Science Digital Library (http:// expertvoices.nsdl.org/). This blog allows for feedback from readers and also makes the editors’ comments much more widely available. You http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/ are invited to read and comment on the editors’ opinions and ideas through this new feature that has been made possible by our collaboration in the NSDL through the ChemEd Digital Library. Designating Supplemental Material Both in the table of contents and throughout the issue you will notice the absence of the special Ws (which meant look for supplemental material on the Web). This is by design: we realized that nearly everything had a W. Accompanying online materials are no longer an exception to denote—things have changed and they are now the rule. Every article has at least one additional online component. At the end of each article, under the heading Supporting JCE Online Material, you will find a list of the materials available online. New Section Name: On the Web Effective with this issue, On the Web designates the section formerly titled Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources. This reflects the changing nature and growth of the World Wide

Results, ACS Division of Chemical Education 2007 Election of Officers Chair-Elect (Chair in 2009)

• Mark Freilich, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN; [email protected]

Secretary/Councilor (2008–2010)

• Donald Wink, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; [email protected]

Member-at-Large (2008–2010)

• Maria Oliver-Hoyo, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; [email protected]

Councilor (2008–2010)

• Jerry Sarquis, Miami University, Oxford, OH; [email protected]

Alternate Councilor (2008–2010)

• Renée Cole, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO; [email protected]

Information about membership in the Division of Chemical Education may be obtained from the Secretary, whose address is listed on the Information Page on p 48.

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Association Reports: ACS Division of Chemical Education Web since 1996 when the section was started and the fact the most media and resources are Web-based. Book reviews will continue to appear in the Chemical Education Today section, and articles about textbooks will appear in the classroom or research section. The many resources now available through your browser will be described in On the Web! Last Page: Featuring Featured Molecules Since its inception in June 2002, the Featured Molecules section has been a lively, animated part of JCE Online. Feature editor William (Flick) Coleman has produced 401 of these interactive 3-D molecular models, each linked to molecular structures or other graphic images from articles in our print Journal. Beginning with this issue, there is a permanent home for Featured Molecules in print—the last page of each issue. Of course the static images are really just teasers. Fully manipulable Jmol versions are available at http://www.jce.divched.org/ JCEWWW/Features/MonthlyMolecules/index.html. JCE Online: Redefined Speaking of the Web, take a look at all of the content JCE Online now offers: articles, supplements (see above), back issues, the JCE Index online, online-only columns, and the JCE Digital Library (which is now a major part of the ChemEd Digital Library). In addition to all new articles and supplemental material, all articles in issues back to 1924 have been scanned, digitized, and uploaded to the Web. These are now available to you at no cost beyond your regular subscription. You can use the JCE Index online to look up anything that JCE has ever published without going to a library. Also, your library or school can get the same access to back issues as if they had subscribed to the JCE since 1924—again at no extra cost beyond their regular subscription fee. (See p 25 for more information.) ChemEd Digital Library JCE Digital Library is now part of the ChemEd DL, but the latter contains much more. For example, the ChemEd DL includes more than a dozen communities made up of people with similar interests who are working via the Web to create

more and better educational resources. It also provides many networking services such as a Wiki, podcasts, a catalog of resources, and an online course in the Moodle course management system that helps people learn about the ChemEd DL resources. There resources will be available to the Division of Chemical Education task forces that are implementing the recommendations from last summer’s Strategic Planning Session. If you would like to learn about the many resources and services of the ChemEd DL in a more traditional format, you are invited to our workshop at the BCCE next summer. Periodic Table Live! Another resource that you will find on the ChemEd DL is Periodic Table Live! This is a collection of data about the chemical elements that uses the periodic table for navigation and includes multimedia such as Quicktime movies and 3-D crystal lattices using JMol. It was previously available through JCE Software, but now is part of the ChemEd DL and freely available to all through either the JCE Online or the ChemEd DL. In the latter it is available by a single mouse click from the home page (see graphic on this page or go to http://www.chemeddl.org/). This is a great resource for middle school and high school teachers, so make sure that your local teachers know about it. Open Access: Broader Dissemination of JCE Articles Here is a change you won’t see, but it is significant nonetheless. A new policy formulated by the editorial office and approved by the Board of Publication takes effect with the articles in this issue. Each author has the right to post our PDF version of an article to the author’s Web site 24 months after its print publication. If the author requests it, the author can simultaneously post the PDF to PubMed. An author can also purchase the right to post the PDF immediately upon publication. (See http://www.jce.divched.org/Contributors/Authors/index.html for more information.)

Four representatives from the Featured Molecules collection at http://www.jce.divched.org/ JCEWWW/Features/MonthlyMolecules/index.html: essentially dynamic, fully manipulable clip art. Captured in a still moment are, from left: amylose; vanillin; vitamin B12; and a nanoscale molecular tweezer described in JCE December 2004.

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What I Did on My Summer Vacation: The ACS Meeting in Boston Tom Holme, Examinations Institute The ACS Exams Institute conducts much business at national meetings and the Boston meeting was no exception. Several exam-writing committees met to work on exams, and their progress along several fronts is worthy of note. All exams from the Institute go through a trial testing stage, and several new exams have reached this point after efforts from the committee work. The next Full Year General Chemistry exam will be trial testing this coming spring, as will the Full Year Organic Chemistry exam.

Example Question: DUCK Exam A large pharmaceutical laboratory is being cleaned after years of use. Although many of the liquids in the laboratory are labeled, there are several clear colorless liquids in bottles that have illegible labels. There are also several vials of unlabeled white or off-white solids. You are part of a team of people hired to clean up the lab and are expected to use your chemistry knowledge to guide the activities of the team. E1. Which technique would be most useful for identification of a mixture of organic liquids? (A) GC/MS

(B) ICP emission spectroscopy

(C) NMR

(D) UV/VIS

E2. One of the white crystalline solids is suspected of being codeine (1) mixed with acetaminophen (2). In order to isolate these two substances using a water–ether extraction, which method would be best? O H

O H

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O N

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(A) isolate 1 in the aqueous layer, leaving 2 in an ether layer (B) isolate 2 in the aqueous layer, leaving 1 in an ether layer (C) add HCl(aq) to isolate 1 in the aqueous layer, leaving 2 in an ether layer (D) add HCl(aq) to isolate 2 in the aqueous layer, leaving 1 in an ether layer. Figure 1. An excerpt of an example scenario for the DUCK exam. The full example is available in PDF format as Supporting Material in this issue of JCE Online.

The High School Chemistry exam (for the first year course) is also now ready for trial testing after work this summer. Participation in trial testing is an important step in the validation process for ACS Exams, and the Institute welcomes instructors who wish to participate. Contact us at chmexams@ uwm.edu if you are interested in being a trial tester. DUCK: New Diagnostic Exam Perhaps the most novel new assessment set for trial testing is the Diagnostic of Undergraduate Chemistry Knowledge (DUCK) exam. This exam is designed to fill the need for an exit-exam style assessment at the end of an undergraduate curriculum. The test is fundamentally interdisciplinary, constructed with 12 scenarios that include both a context for a chemical problem and data about the problem. Figure 1 shows the introductory paragraph and first two questions for an example scenario; the entire scenario is available as Supporting Material in this issue of JCE Online. This particular scenario has been prepared specifically for the purpose of illustration and happens to be focused on organic and biochemistry; other scenarios emphasize analytical, inorganic, or physical chemistry. Through trial testing this spring, the DUCK will be validated as a measure of student reasoning at the end of the undergraduate curriculum. If the validation process goes as expected, the final version of the exam will be available in late Fall of 2008. Toward National Lab Assessment One final interesting activity from the Exams Institute arises from a presentation in the Assessing Laboratory Chemistry Courses symposium at the Boston ACS Meeting. Tom Holme made a presentation in which he led a group activity to elucidate a possible design for a national lab assessment. The exercise went so well—defining a sensible approach to devising what people might wish to test in a general chemistry laboratory—that an exploratory committee has been established to elaborate on the preliminary outline devised by the symposium participants. This new lab assessment committee will meet at the Spring 2008 ACS meeting in New Orleans (April 6–10, 2008) to flesh out several possible ways to build a national lab assessment concept, and focus-group workshops will be convened at the Biennial Conference on Chemical Education in Bloomington, IN in summer 2008 to get feedback from the broader chemical education community. It is anticipated that the project will then be able to move forward with the construction of a lab assessment that will allow people to compare their students nationally, in ways similar to the long-standing tradition of the Exams Institute. Report on the ACS Council Meeting, August 22, 2007 Donald Wink, Secretary and Councilor This is a summary of some of the actions and other events at the ACS Council Meeting during the 2007 Fall National Meeting in Boston. It includes information provided by the ACS to its councilors. A report by ACS president Katie Hunt reviewed the success of the Boston meeting and looked forward to several different results of her theme of “sustainability”. She also noted the work that had been done in the recent passage of the America Com-


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Association Reports: ACS Division of Chemical Education petes Act (based on the American Competitiveness Initiative). This has significant ramifications for science education in the country. She reminded those present of the effectiveness of distributed communication coordinated through the ACS Legislative Action Network. She urged ACS members to consider joining the LAN, something they can do at http://acswebcontent. acs.org/acs_perl/lan.html; accessed Nov 2007. ACS presidentelect Bruce Bursten looked ahead to work in 2008, with themes of energy and education. The report of the Society Committee on Education (SOCED) included an announcement of the task forces to examine the role of virtual and online experiences in chemistry laboratory education. The committee has discussed ways to ensure that online labs are supplementary to hands-on experiments, not a replacement for them. Another task force is looking at ways to engage retired chemists in K–12 education. The Council also voted to change the the acronym of the Committee on Project SEED to “Summer Experiences for the Economically Disadvantaged”. The following announcements were also made: As of August 21, 2007, the ACS fall national meeting had attracted 15,344 registrants. It was also announced that the Meetings and Expositions Committee approved an increase of $10 for the 2008 national meetings advance registration fee.

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The Council engaged in a special discussion around these topics:

1. How can ACS encourage more members to participate by bringing their expertise to the development of more targeted policy positions?

2. What can ACS do to increase member involvement in public policy advocacy?

3. How can ACS be a more effective leader in policy activities in the broader science and technology communities?

Hunt invited councilors to visit her Web site at http://www. acspresident.org; accessed Nov 2007 for additional information. The newly re-invented ACS Web site, scheduled to launch September 30, was announced. This site is at http://www.acs. org; users who have bookmarked http://www.chemistry.org will be forwarded to the new site. It was announced that, after discussing the situation of the Spring 2007 ACS meeting in Chicago, the Committee on Meetings and Expositions had decided to move the next planned meeting in Chicago (in 2011) to a new location, Denver. This was met with spirited discussion about the quality of the experience of members at ACS meetings and the methods used to poll members about their experience at national meetings.

CHED Salutes Outreach Volunteers

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Saluting Outreach and Outreach Volunteers Betty Moore and Linda Fanis

Terri Taylor, Vernon Thielmann, John Varine, Jim Vogel,

On behalf of the Division of Chemical Education, the Journal of Chemical Education, and the Examinations Institute, the CHED Outreach Office salutes the 65 volunteers who participated in our outreach efforts in 2007. These efforts connect teachers and students with chemistry content and with the larger chemical education community.

Willingham, Timothy Wilson, Donald Wink, Steve

Lois Ablin, Margaret Asirvatham, Mohamed Ayoub, Claire Baker, Laura Barden-Gabbei, Jerry Bell, Darlene Braun, Sarah Brennan, Janet Clifford, Eddie Coffey, Jane Snell Copes, Jim Cortez, Julie Cunningham, Scott Davis, Lynn Diener, Marian DeWane, Amina El-Ashmawy, Linda Fanis, Paul Furth, Mary Harris, Hal Harris, Al Hazari, Rosa Hemphill, Richard Hermens, Michelle Herrmann, Morton Hoffman, Sally Hoier, Erica Jacobsen, Allene Johnson, Loretta Jones, Ronald Kahn, Jane Klassen, LeRoy C. Kroll, Mark Langella, Lee Marek, Millie McDowell, Clyde Metz, Cinzia Muzzi, Karl Olm, Josephine Panlegreco, Donovan Porterfield, Pannaduri Ramasami, Paul Rillema, Jerry Sarquis, Hala Schepman, Maria Schwemlein, Laura Slocum, Michael Smith, Leah Solla, Chad Stark, William Stier, Jennifer Strahl, Ruth Tanner,

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Eric Voss, Prakash Wadgaonkar, Kathy Warner, Janice Wood, Charles Michael Zapf

Become an Outreach Volunteer You, too, can become an Outreach Ambassador. It’s easy if you get in touch with the Outreach Office! When you take part in this very successful outreach program, you help teachers and students in your area by connecting them with what is happening in chemical education: we can provide JCE, CHED, and Examinations Institute materials for workshops, conferences, award nights, seminars, education courses, etc. We can provide some guidance (and some goals) for conducting your outreach program, too. Materials are normally sent without cost. JCE Gift Subscriptions Make Meaningful Awards At many outreach events, awards are presented to one or more participants. If you are looking for a meaningful, affordable award that will give lasting value, consider JCE gift subscriptions. Gift subscriptions come with a personalized certificate signed by the editor, a sample copy of JCE for presentation (until the subscription begins), access to JCE Online—all for $40 (U.S. subscriptions). Take advantage of this great offer! To participate or to learn more, contact the CHED Outreach Office at [email protected]; 800-991-5534 (U.S.) or 608/262-5153. Please contact us at least three weeks before you need materials..



The Division of Chemical Education selected two Division members for its 2007 CHED Outstanding Service Award. The award is presented annually at the Fall ACS National meeting during the CHED banquet. The guidelines for this award are that awardees be members of and have contributed outstanding service to CHED. Individuals who currently hold office or chair a committee in CHED are not be eligible until their term of office has expired. Because there are so many members of CHED who deserve recognition who are close to retirement or have recently retired, two awards have been made for each of the last five years. 2007 Awards The 2007 awardees are Larry Peck and Jay A. Young. They were each presented with a certificate and a glass apple at the Division banquet at the Boston national ACS meeting. Larry Peck has recently retired from Texas A&M University. He has served DivCHED as an officer, member, and chair of various committees. He is also a well known textbook and lab manual author. He has organized numerous in-service workshops for teachers.

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The ChemLuminary celebration honors those who have volunteered their time and effort for the furtherance of chemistry and the ACS. At the Fall 2007 ACS Meeting in Boston, two CHED members were among those who received awards. Award for Volunteer Service to ACS Morton Z. Hoffman received the 2007 award, and with it the privilege of presenting a brief address to the ChemLuminary Group on behalf of all volunteers. An excerpt from his talk, “The Time of Your Life”, follows.

J a y Yo u n g , c e n t e r, received a glass apple symbolizing the CHED Outstanding Ser vice Award. He is flanked by John Moore (left) and Tom Greenbowe (right).

Jay Young, at present a chemical safety consultant, has been a member for many years, serving CHED as secretary, program chair, and member of the Board of Publication. He is a continuing contributor to the Journal of Chemical Education; his first JCE contribution was when Norris Rakestraw was editor, about 55 years ago!

Sandy and Mort Hoffman at the ChemLuminary ceremony.

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Time is, indeed, our most limited, and therefore priceless, existential quantity. We may never run out of money or other material possessions in our lives, but we will certainly run out of time. It is, therefore, our moral obligation to contribute our time without the hope of any financial remuneration to those activities that really contribute to the betterment of the world and the human condition. That is the essence of being a volunteer. …My charge to you now is to continue to be part of the ACS in all your futures, and have the time of your life.

Helen M. Free Award for Public Outreach The Helen M. Free Award was presented to John Fortman. His citation read as follows: “John Fortman is recognized for more than four decades of outstanding public outreach. He has made enormous impact through chemistry shows, activities and speeches, which have been presented locally, regionally, and nationally. His demonstration shows have led to three sets of chemistry demonstration videos and a seven-DVD set. In addition to direct public interaction, he has authored over 50 papers on chemical education. Fortman provides us with a role model for educating and exciting the public about the transforming power of chemistry.” John Fortman poses with his wife at the ChemLuminary ceremony.


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photo by M. Z. Hoffman

…Certainly, on this evening of celebration, you are having the time of your life: enjoyment, camaraderie, and just plain fun. “The time of your life”, what an interesting and enigmatic phrase. What one considers to be “the time of one’s life” certainly depends on age and the context of the activity. The time of one’s life for a teenager, for example, is certainly not the same as for those like me who are long in the tooth. But when you think of the time that you have available in your life and the opportunities to do, or not do, something important with it, the statement, “the time of one’s life”, becomes rather profound and a bit frightening. photo by R. Lichter

Tom Greenbowe (right) presents a glass apple to Larry Peck (center), who received a CHED Outstanding Service Award. Jerry Sarquis (left) introduced Peck.

ACS Celebrates Volunteers at ChemLuminary

ACS Awards Presented to CHED Members

photos by M. Z. Hoffman

2007 CHED Outstanding Service Award Anna Wilson, Chair, Recognition Committee


Association Reports: ACS Division of Chemical Education 20th BCCE, July 27–31, 2008, at Indiana University Steve Wietstock, General Chair

• Allan Thornton, Medical Director, Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute

The organizers of the 20th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE) invite you to join us on the beautiful Indiana University campus July 27–31, 2008. The BCCEs, sponsored by the ACS Division of Chemical Education, are the largest gatherings of chemical educators in the world and are designed for middle school science teachers, secondary school chemistry teachers, and college chemistry instructors. This conference emphasizes the improvement of chemistry education at all levels, the modern developments in chemistry and chemical education, and is highly respected in the chemical education community. We are planning an exciting conference with ample time to relax, to network with your colleagues, and to explore the richness of the campus and surrounding community. Plenary sessions will be convened in the recently renovated IU Auditorium on the Arts Plaza with symposia and workshops taking place in the Indiana Memorial Union and Conference Center, Woodburn and Ballantine Halls, as well as in the Chemistry Building. These venues are within a short walking distance to downtown Bloomington and its multitude of tempting ethnic restaurants. Housing will be available in several of our newly renovated residence halls. We will also have blocks of rooms available at the Indiana Memorial Union and other local hotels. Indianapolis International Airport is a one-hour trip from Bloomington, and airport shuttle service will be available for participants. Confirmed plenary speakers include:

• Eileen Lewis, Program Director in the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)

• Madeleine Jacobs, ACS Executive Director and CEO

• Katherine Hunt, 2007 ACS President

• Vahid Majidi, Assistant Director for the Weapons of Mass Destruction, Federal Bureau of Investigation

In addition to the traditional plenary presentations, symposia, poster sessions, workshops, and an exposition, we are planning several evening activities to meet and greet each other:

• The opening ceremonies, keynote address, and reception on Sunday evening in the IU Auditorium

• An Art Walk/Pub Crawl with an ice cream social/reception at Bloomington’s WonderLab Museum of Science, Health and Technology on Tuesday evening

• A Gala Party on Wednesday evening featuring Al D. Hyde and the Key Tones in Alumni Hall and Solarium in the Indiana Memorial Union

Many of these events will also feature musicians from the worldclass IU School of Music. Call for Papers Abstracts for presentations and posters are being accepted now through February 15, 2008 at the 20th BCCE Web site at http://bcce2008.indiana.edu; accessed Nov 2007. We have a wide variety of symposia that are looking for submissions. If there is not a topic there that fits your presentation, then submit it to the General Papers session, and we will find a session for you. Please read through the instructions for submitting an abstract

Get Involved! Contact Division of Chemical Education Marcy Towns, CPN Chair Want to become more involved in the ACS Division of Chemical Education? It’s easy—just complete the online nominations form (a copy is at the right). If you want to become more involved in DivCHED activities, or perhaps serve on a Division committee or run for office, it is now easier than ever. Go to the Division’s Web page at http:// divched.chem.wisc.edu/, scroll down to new online Nominations Form, click on the link, and complete the form. When you complete the form, it comes to me, Marcy Towns, as chair of the Division’s Committee for Personnel and Nominations (CPN). Then the Committee and I will try to match you up with your interests. The first step to serving on a committee is to simply let us know that you’d like to serve! Tell us by filling out the online form! This is a volunteer organization—we need you.

The Nomination Form is shown at the right: go to the Web page, complete the form, get involved!

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photo by Indiana University Office of Communications

prior to logging into the abstract submission system—papers may be rejected if the abstracts do not follow the guidelines. Authors will be notified of their status in early March and will be informed of presentation times and locations in April. Just a few of the 90+ symposia sessions include: “Fast” Food Analysis Advanced Informatics In Chemistry Education Advice For the New/Returning Professor: What I Wish I Had Known Before I Started Teaching Alternative Energy Resources Chemical concepts critical for the biological sciences: student thinking and effective interventions Chemical Education Around The World Chemical Education Research—Theoretical Frameworks for Research in Chemistry/Science Education Computers in Chemical Education: Best Practices Demo Extravaganza

The Sample Gates lead from downtown Bloomington to the Old Crescent, the heart of the Indiana University Campus.

Effective (and Easy) Use of Podcasts and Screencasts in Lectures Exploring the ACS Guidelines and Expectations for the First Two Years of Chemistry George R. Hague, Jr. Advanced Placement Chemistry Symposium Innovations in the Organic Chemistry Curriculum Inquiry Materials that Really Work: Teacher Designed and Tested JCE: Where We Are and How We Got There Novel Ideas in Bioanalytical Chemistry and Interdisciplinary Laboratories

for graduate students. After 11:59 p.m. on June 2, 2008, a $50 late registration fee will be added to all categories. You will also be able to register for on-campus housing at that time as well. There are several options for on-campus housing, which will range in price from $33–$46 per night. We have also made arrangements with local hotels for blocks of rooms at special conference pricing. Check the BCCE Web site for the latest details on off-campus housing arrangements. Travel to and from Bloomington

Using the ACS Guidelines for Chemistry Programs in Two-Year Colleges to Enhance Chemistry Programs and to Facilitate Student Transitions

The Indianapolis International Airport is about 40 miles north of Bloomington. The airport is serviced by the Bloomington Shuttle Service which has stops at the Courtyard Inn by Marriott, The Indiana Memorial Union, the IU McNutt Residence Hall, and the Hampton Inn in Bloomington. Visit and bookmark the 20th BCCE Web site for specific information about the conference. There you can also request to be added to the BCCE Message listserv for messages regarding deadlines and conference updates. The Web site will be continuously updated with information pertaining to the technical program, registration, housing, and social events as we approach July 27, 2008. If you are still wondering what a Hoosier is, then we invite you to come to the 20th BCCE at IU and see them up close! Any questions, program ideas, or general suggestions for any of the BCCE program chairs can be sent to the BCCE email address, [email protected].

Writing Across the Chemistry Curriculum as a Teaching Method

Supporting JCE Online Material

Problem-Based Learning Design and Utilization in Upper Level Chemistry Courses Professional Development for High School Teachers: What Can Chemistry Faculty Do? Student-Driven Curricula: An Integrated Approach to Science Education Survivor Skills for 1st to 5th Year Chemistry Teachers Taking Advantage of Cheap and Free Chemical Information Resources The Greening of the General Chemistry Laboratory The Second Decade of Peer-Led Team Learning

Conference Registration Early registration will begin on February 15, 2008 through the 20th BCCE Web site. Estimated registration fees are $250 for general registrants, $200 for secondary educators, and $125

http://www.jce.divched.org/Journal/Issues/2008/Jan/abs34.html Full text (PDF) with links to cited URLs Supplement Example of DUCK exam in Adobe PDF format


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