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Thomas A. Holme has been selected as the Director, Examinations Institute, of the Division of Chemical Education. The appointment was announced by the Institute’s Board of Trustees, chaired by Donald E. Jones. It is effective January 2003, at which time the Examinations Institute will move to the University of Wisconsin– Milwaukee. His appointment is a result of the retirement of Dwaine Eubanks as director and Lucy Eubanks as associate director, effective December 31, 2002. Holme is associate professor and director of general chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee where he teaches general chemistry as well as
special topics courses in computational chemistry, physical chemistry, and big ideas in science. He has previously been on the faculty of the University of South Dakota, a visiting professor at Ajou University in South Korea, and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Zambia. His professional interests include research in two areas: chemical education, where he studies how students learn chemistry; science research in computational chemistry where his primary interest lies in systems that show physiological activities when either boron or silicon is present. Recent awards and honors include the ACS Helen Free Award for Public Outreach in 1999 and the UW–Milwaukee Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1998. His publica-
JCE Video Workshops
JCE HS Workshops
The JCE staff conduct workshops on incorporating JCE digitized video and still images from the Chemistry Comes Alive! series into your classroom presentations and online resources. These materials can do much to enliven what you do and excite the students you teach. A workshop will be presented at the Spring 2002 ACS Meeting in Orlando (Sunday afternoon, April 7) and again at the 17th BCCE Meeting in Bellingham, WA (Wednesday, July 31, 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.). Description. The workshop format provides hands-on experience with incorporating these pictures and video into documents created with word processing programs, presentations, and WWW pages. Participants will leave with a clear understanding of how to do this. Participants will work in groups; if possible bring a computer with CD-player. Contact Jon Holmes,
[email protected], to sign up or to get more information. Preregistration required.
Egg paint. Vitamin C clocks. Christmas-tree-light diodes. These are just a few of the hands-on adventures that await you at upcoming JCE workshops especially for high school educators. A workshop will be presented during the High School Day on Monday, April 8 at the Spring 2002 ACS Meeting in Orlando and an extended three-hour workshop will be held at the 17th BCCE in Bellingham, WA (Sunday, July 28 at 9:30 a.m.). Description. JCE staff will share a selection of thought-provoking activities of interest to high school educators and to teachers interested in offering take-home experiments and activities that use materials readily available from grocery or discount stores. For more informat i o n c o n t a c t Er i c a Ja c o b s e n ,
[email protected]. The BCCE workshop is ticketed and limited to 24 participants.
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Photo by Alan Thompson
Director, Examinations Institute
Thomas A. Holme
tions have appeared in Journal of Computational Chemistry, Journal of Physical Chemistry, the Chemical Educator, Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, and the Journal of Chemical Education.
News from Online Session at 17th BCCE Carolyn Judd, the feature editor of the News from Online column that appears several times a year in JCE, is organizing the Birds-of-a-Feather Session, News from Online: Web Page Authors and Friends at the 17th BCCE in Bellingham, WA, summer 2002. Description. Have you used the Web information that has appeared in JCE’s News from Online feature column? How? Was your Web page featured in JCE’s News from Online? Did you write a column for News from Online? Would you like to tell us about your great Web page or write a column? Join Carolyn Judd (column editor) and staff from the Journal of Chemical Education for lunch and Websharing. Judd would welcome feedback even if you are unable to attend the session. You may contact her at
[email protected] or Carolyn Sweeney Judd, Houston Community College-Central, 1300 Holman, Houston, TX 77004. (As of press time, this session has been accepted but not scheduled. Contact Judd directly for this information.)
Journal of Chemical Education • Vol. 79 No. 4 April 2002 • JChemEd.chem.wisc.edu
