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Association Reports: ACS Division of Chemical Education
From Our Roving Reporter by Morton Z. Hoffman
20th ICCE, Mauritius
Sunset, Mauritius.
in Glasgow, Scotland in August 2009; see www.iupac2009.org (accessed Oct 2008) for more information. The 21st ICCE will be held August 8–13, 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan, with the theme Chemistry Education and Sustainability in the Global Age.
91st Canadian Chemistry Conference (CCC) Edmonton, Alberta, was the location of the 91st CCC on May 24–28, 2008. The chemical education program was organized by Glen Loppnow with assistance from Peter Mahaffy, Frances Sutherland, and Margaret-Ann Armour. The chemical education program included symposia on best practices in teaching, career choices, introductory chemistry, creating and supporting a positive teaching culture, and innovative teaching technologies; there was a workshop on achieving a balance between teaching and research. Invited speakers included Cathy Middlecamp, Jan Hayes and Pat Perez, and Morton Hoffman. College Chemistry Canada (C3), the Canadian equivalent
of 2YC3, met just prior to the CCC. Participants had access to CCC sessions as well as those of C3. The Chemical Institute of Canada Award for Chemical Education was presented to Geoffrey Rayner-Canham of Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland; his award address was titled General Chemistry: Fossilized or Futurized? Awards were also presented to undergraduates from the University of Alberta and the University of Toronto for the quality of their chemical education poster presentations. The 2009 CCC will be held in Hamilton Ontario; the 2010 CCC in Toronto.
Report from Istanbul: 9th ECRICE More than 250 chemical educators from Europe, the Middle East, and other parts of the world gathered in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 6–9, 2008, for the 9th European Conference on Research in Chemical Education. The conference was organized by Mehmet Mahramanlioglu of Istanbul University. There were eight plenary lectures as well as 71 oral presentations, 141 poster papers, and four workshops. Sessions were organized around European-centered and global topics in chemical education practice and research: teaching and learning
in secondary and post-secondary schools, history of chemistry, textbooks, teacher education, green chemistry and environmental education, relationship with industry, and ethics. One overriding issue of concern throughout the entire conference was the challenge facing the community to translate the well-established results of chemical education research into broad practice on a reasonable timescale. Supporting JCE Online Material
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Sunset over the Bosphorus. An excursion by boat on the Bosphorus Strait was part of the ECRICE program.
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Morton Z. Hoffman is an emeritus faculty member at Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215;
[email protected]. He is the U.S. national representative to IUPAC-CCE, the CHED and SOCED liaison to IUPAC, and was a member of the International Advisory Committee of ICCE-2008.
Journal of Chemical Education • Vol. 85 No. 12 December 2008 • www.JCE.DivCHED.org • © Division of Chemical Education
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In August 2008 the island of Mauritius was the site of the 20th International Conference on Chemical Education (ICCE). With the theme Chemistry in the Information and Communications Technology Age, the conference attracted about 200 attendees. Henri Li Kam Wah and Ponnadurai Ramasami of the University of Mauritius were the organizers. There were nine plenary lectures: Roald Hoffmann, Peter Mahaffy, Loretta Jones, Henry Schaefer III, Arthur Olson, Peter Atkins, Vandana Hunma, John Bradley, and Shalini Baxi. Program details are at http://www.uom.ac.mu/icce/index.asp (accessed Oct 2008). The conference was also the occasion of the annual meeting of the IUPAC Committee on Chemistry Education, which heard reports from its subcommittees with regard to chemical education around the globe. The Committee will meet next
