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CHED Events CHED-Sponsored Workshops High School Program Time: Sunday, March 28, 8:30 a.m–3:45 p.m. Location: Coastline Community College, Garden Grove Center, Garden Grove Fee: $30 Description: The Chemistry Classroom Today, Visions for Tomorrow is the theme for High School Chemistry Teachers’ Day. The keynoted address will be given by Patrick Wegner, California State University, Fullerton, titled “Chemistry Teaching in the 21st Century”. Arlene Russell, UCLA, will give the luncheon address. Other participants include Steven and Susan Zumdahl and representatives from the Terrific Science program, Vernier Scientific, and the ACS Education Division. Registration forms for this event are available at the workshop’s Web site, http:// dl.ccc.cccd.edu/faculty/dlicata/HSDay (accessed Jan 2004), or contact the organizer, David Paul Licata at
[email protected]. Program details are also available on the Web site. Quantum Explorations in a PLTL Setting Time: Monday, March 29, 1–4 p.m. Location: Clarion Hotel, California 1 Room Fee: none Description: Participants will be introduced to the use of Quantum Explorer software (http://quantumconcepts.bu.edu) structured to support PLTL explorations of quantization, wave functions, atomic structure, hybridization, and spectroscopy. Participants are expected to bring a PC laptop computer with a CD-ROM drive. For further information or to register for the workshop, contact Dan Dill, Department of Chemistry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215; 617/353-2500;
[email protected].
CHED Committee and Task Force Meetings The CHED committee meetings that are planned for the Spring 2004 ACS Meeting in Anaheim will take place in the Clarion Hotel, 616 Convention Way. The exception is the CHED Business Meeting, which will be held in the Convention Center. These are open meetings, and all CHED members are invited to attend. Saturday, March 27 Executive Committee: 8 a.m.–1:15 p.m., Orangewood 1 Room; John Clevenger, Chair Board of Publication: 1:30–6 p.m., Orangewood 2 Room; John Gelder, Chair Program Committee: 2–4 p.m., Orangewood 1 Room; Frank Torre, Chair Sunday, March 28 Board of Publication: 8:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m., California 2 Room; John Gelder, Chair Examinations Institute Board of Trustees: 1–5:30 p.m; California 3 Room; Uni Susskind, Chair Long-Range Planning Committee: 1–5:30 p.m; California 2 Room; Sue Nurrenbern, Chair CHED Business Meeting: 7:30–8 p.m., Room 210 D of the Convention Center; John Clevenger, Chair (Note the new time for the Business Meeting, which will immediately precede the Sunday Evening Poster Session, also in the Convention Center.) Monday, March 29 Chemical Education Research Committee: 3–4:00 p.m., California 2 Room; Amy Phelps, Chair
CHED Booth at the Exposition Booth 546 will represent JCE and JCE Software, the CHED Examinations Institute, and CHED Outreach efforts.
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Journal of Chemical Education
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Vol. 81 No. 3 March 2004
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