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Division of Chemical Education Program for the Fall 2010 ACS National Meeting in Boston by Julie Smist Springfield College, Department of Biology and Chemistry, Springfield, Massachusetts 01109 by Nicole L. Snyder* Department of Chemistry, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York 13323 *
[email protected] by Carmen Valdez Gauthier Department of Chemistry and Physics, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida 33801
Division of Chemical Education technical sessions for the Fall 2010 ACS National Meeting in Boston will be held in the Seaport Hotel, 200 Seaport Boulevard (location 13 on the ACS map). The Undergraduate Research Poster and Sci-Mix will be held in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Be sure to check the on-site program for any last-minute changes in time or location. Unless otherwise noted, morning sessions begin at 8:30 a.m. and afternoon sessions begin at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, August 22
engagement has increased student motivation and instructors are able to spend more time on activities that directly affect student learning. This symposium will explore both synchronous and asynchronous methods to enhance learning in organic chemistry. Afternoon A. High School Program: Chemistry for Preventing and Combating Disease, Part II Sally Mitchell, Organizer
Morning A. High School Program: Chemistry for Preventing and Combating Disease, Part I
B. High School Program: Chemistry for Preventing and Combating Disease, Part III Sally Mitchell, Organizer
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C. Social Networking: The Next Generation, Part II Laura E. Pence and Harry E. Pence, Organizers
B. Social Networking: The Next Generation, Part I Laura E. Pence and Harry E. Pence, Organizers
The number of new social networking programs continues to multiply at a great rate, and people are constantly finding new ways to use the programs that already exist. Predictions that the whole social networking world will converge into a few integrated applications have so far proven to be incorrect. A few chemical educators have found innovative ways to apply these programs to enhance student learning and communication, but few of these innovations seem to have been widely adopted. There are some indications that educators are reaching a tipping point, where innovation feeds upon innovation and exciting new learning opportunities result. This symposium brings together descriptions of some of these new developments, showing how teachers are using blogs, wikis, Twitter, and other social programs to create a new kind of learning experience. C. Using Technology To Enhance Learning in Organic Chemistry Lakeisha McClary and Philip Janowicz, Organizers
As class sizes grow and funds dwindle, an increasing burden is put on organic chemistry instructors to teach a course that relies heavily on spatial ability. Recent technology has allowed students to become more engaged in the learning process in both synchronous and asynchronous environments. Increased student
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D. Connections to Germany and Europe: Education and Research Opportunities Morton Z. Hoffman, Organizer
This symposium explores opportunities that exist for undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and young professionals in the U.S. to study and engage in research in the chemical sciences at universities, industries, and research institutes in Germany. The symposium will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the exchange program with Germany of the Northeastern Local ACS Section, the German Chemical Society, and their respective Younger Chemists Committees. Evening General Posters Ingrid Montes, Organizer
Monday, August 23 Morning A. Chemistry and Policy: Solving Problems at the Interface, Part I Jared Silva and Jan Schnorr, Organizers
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This symposium will highlight key areas in which chemistryrelated science policy is created and implemented by governments and other major organizations. It will also challenge young researchers, chemical professionals, and policy practitioners alike to tackle important issues, including national security and competitiveness, health and safety, and energy and sustainability. Speakers in the morning session include David Goldston (NRDC), Jay D. Keasling (UC Berkeley), Joan Berkowitz (Farkas, Berkowitz and Company), and William S. Rees, Jr. (LANL). B. Teaching Acid-Base Concepts in General and Organic Chemistry: Current Approaches To Improve Conceptual Understanding and Retention Margaret Asirvatham, Organizer
In this symposium, speakers will share recent attempts to address difficulties encountered by students in learning acidbase chemistry. Rich experiences of instructors who teach general and organic chemistry to enhance learning and facilitate student success and retention as majors, especially in the physical and biological sciences, will be presented. C. Undergraduate Research Oral Presentations John Dudek and Ray Dudek, Organizers
In this symposium, students will have the opportunity to give presentations and exchange ideas on research they have conducted in the laboratory. Afternoon A. Chemistry and Policy: Solving Problems at the Interface, Part II Jared Silva and Jan Schnorr, Organizers
This symposium will highlight key areas in which chemistryrelated science policy is created and implemented by governments and other major organizations. It will also challenge young researchers, chemical professionals, and policy practitioners alike to tackle important issues, including national security and competitiveness, health and safety, and energy and sustainability. Speakers in the afternoon session include Janan Hayes (Chair, ACS History of Chemistry), John Gavenonis (DuPont), Kathryn L. Beers (NIST), John M. Deutch (MIT), and George M. Whitesides (Harvard). B. Integrating Nanotechnology into the Chemistry Curriculum Jason Montgomery, Organizer
Advances in nanotechnology are affecting almost every facet of our lives. Regardless of whether a student is seeking a postgraduate degree in chemistry, a degree in medicine, or a position in industry, he or she will surely encounter some manifestation of nanotechnology. The purpose of this symposium is to address two primary questions:
• To what extent do students graduating with degrees in chemistry need to have been exposed to nanoscience? • How can a department successfully integrate nanotechnology and nanoscience, from theory to experiments, into the chemistry curriculum?
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Speakers will address these issues and give insight into the successful integration of nanotechnology and the chemistry curriculum. C. Successful Undergraduate Research Programs John Dudek and Ray Dudek, Organizers
In this symposium, faculty will give presentations and exchange ideas on developing successful undergraduate research programs. D. Undergraduate Research Posters Nancy Bakowski, Organizer
Evening Successful Student Affiliates Chapter Posters (SciMix) Nancy Bakowski, Organizer
Tuesday, August 24 Morning A. Forensic Science: Its Impact on the Education of Recent Generations of Undergraduate Students, Part I Larry Kaplan, David M. Collard, Cianan B. Russell, Jerry C. Smith, and Patricia S. Hill, Organizers
Over the past 25 years, forensic science has emerged as an ideal field for introducing many topics in the chemical and related physical and biological sciences to undergraduate students. The Forensic Science workshop, offered for the past decade under the auspices of the National Science Foundation-supported Center for Workshops in the Chemical Sciences (CWCS), has been successful in introducing more than 250 college and university professors to the world of forensic science as a pedagogical vehicle. The presentations in this symposium will involve the perspectives of well-known forensic scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the field. The symposium will also feature alumni of the Forensic Science workshops who have made significant contributions to the field primarily through course and curriculum development. B. Advances in Teaching Analytical and Inorganic Chemistry Anne M. Falke, Organizer
In this symposium, faculty will give presentations and exchange ideas on advances in teaching analytical and inorganic chemistry. C. Advances in Teaching Organic Chemistry Michelle Boucher, Organizer
In this symposium, faculty will give presentations and exchange ideas on advances in teaching organic chemistry. Afternoon A. Forensic Science: Its Impact on the Education of Recent Generations of Undergraduate Students, Part II
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Larry Kaplan, David M. Collard, Cianan B. Russell, Jerry C. Smith, and Patricia S. Hill, Organizers
D. Research Ties between Chemical Education and Other Disciplines Maria T. Oliver-Hoyo, Organizer
B. POGIL: Process-Oriented, Guided-Inquiry Learning Rick Moog, Organizer
Process-oriented, guided-inquiry learning (POGIL) is a student-centered group learning approach to instruction based on research on how students learn best. In a POGIL classroom or laboratory environment, students work in groups on specially designed activities that promote construction of understanding and development of important learning skills. This symposium will include presentations on the implementation and effectiveness of POGIL in various learning environments and courses.
The field of chemical education strongly embraces the scholarship of integration as it relies on research from a variety of disciplines and affects others in return. This relationship manifests itself through a rich variety of conduits from industrial interactions to consulting to research and teaching collaborations. In this symposium, presentations will emphasize the mechanisms by which the scholarship of integration has been put into action and the resulting products of such collaborations. Afternoon
C. Advances in Teaching Biochemistry and Physical Chem-
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In this symposium, faculty will give presentations and exchange ideas on advances in teaching biochemistry and physical chemistry.
B. NSF-Catalyzed Innovations in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Part II Robert Boggess and Cindy Burkhardt, Organizers
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C. Where Goeth the Chemistry Textbook, Part II
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James Reeves and Deb Exton, Organizers
A. Research in Chemical Education, Part I
D. Teaching Science to Elementary Teachers
Gautam Bhattacharyya, Organizer
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B. NSF-Catalyzed Innovations in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Part I Robert Boggess and Cindy Burkhardt, Organizers
This symposium will feature speakers from CCLI-Phase I and Type 1 awards funded by the National Science Foundation within the past five years. A variety of successful projects that have developed materials or strategies aimed at improving the learning and teaching of chemistry at the undergraduate level will be presented. Projects may include an entire curriculum or a single course or laboratory and focus on both science and nonscience majors. A discussion of the CCLI and other NSF programs by recent reviewers and NSF staff will be a part of the symposium program. C. Where Goeth the Chemistry Textbook, Part I James Reeves and Deb Exton, Organizers
With the cost of traditional textbooks creeping ever higher and the potential of digital media becoming a reality, textbook publishing is at a crossroads. Cost, delivery method, availability, usage, effectiveness: these are all issues that must be considered as textbooks of the future are developed. Rather than a promotion of the latest publisher offerings, this symposium is presented as an opportunity to open a dialogue about these issues by considering the perspectives of publishers, authors, and users. A panel discussion involving representatives from each of these constituencies will follow the presentations.
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Thursday, August 26 Morning A. General Oral Papers, Part I Christine Jaworek-Lopez, Organizer
B. General Oral Papers, Part II Christine Jaworek-Lopez, Organizer
C. Busted: Myths of a Chemical Nature Carmen Guinta, Organizer
As chemistry educators are well aware, misconceptions about chemistry and chemicals abound in our students and in the public at large. This symposium examines several such misconceptions, both historical and persistent. Julianne M. Smist, DivCHED program committee chair, is in the Department of Biology and Chemistry, Springfield College, Springfield, MA 01109;
[email protected]. Boston Meeting Co-Chairs are Nicole L. Snyder, Department of Chemistry, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 13323,
[email protected]; and Carmen Valdez Gauthier, Department of Chemistry and Physics, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL 33801, cgauthier@ flsouthern.edu.
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