Program for the Division of Chemical Education: New Orleans, March

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Program for the Division of Chemical Education: New Orleans, March 23–27, 2003 by Frank Torre, Laura E. Pence, and Harry E. Pence photo Richard Nowitz

CHED technical sessions will be held in the Morial Convention Center with the exception of the High School Program and the High School/College Interface Luncheon (ACS event #103, $30), which will be will be held Sunday, March 23, at the Embassy Suites Hotel. Unless otherwise noted, morning sessions begin at 8:30 a.m., afternoon sessions at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 22

Evening, 6:00 p.m. Division Social Hour and Dinner

The CHED dinner will be held at Mulate’s Restaurant, 201 Julia Street. The social hour will begin at 6 p.m., fol-

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lowed by the dinner. Tickets (ACS #101, $33) must be purchased in advance through ACS—not on site.

New Orleans Meeting Information

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Meeting Program: All ACS Divisions • Preliminary program, including forms for registration, hotel reservations, and ordering tickets to social events (luncheons, dinners, etc.): Chemical & Engineering News, January 27, 2003, and at the ACS Web site, http://www.acs.org/, under -choose a page- choose New Orleans Mtg.

Sunday, March 23

Morning A. NSF-Catalyzed Curriculum Development I. B. Nejad, Presiding

• Final program with complete program and all session locations: will be sent with the March 3, 2003 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, and will appear on the ACS Web site (address above).

This symposium will feature speakers from projects funded by NSF that are developing educational materials that incorporate practices that are effective in improving the chemistry learning of undergraduates with diverse backgrounds and career aspirations.

Program and Activities: CHED

B. Designing and Building New and Renovated Chemistry Labs Donald Wink, Organizer

• CHED technical sessions will be in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center; morning sessions will begin at 8:30 a.m. and afternoon sessions at 1:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted here or in the final program. A list of CHED committee and task force meetings appears on p 241. Tickets to the CHED dinner (Saturday evening, March 22; event #101, $33) and the High School/College Interface Luncheon (Sunday, March 23; event #103, $30) are available from ACS (see above). Abstracts of CHED sessions will be mailed to all Division members prior to the meeting, accompanying the Spring 2003 CHED Newsletter. CHED expects to be able to make all abstracts available for download as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file from the Division’s Web page, http://DivCHED.chem.wisc.edu/ index.html, prior to the meeting. Non-members may contact the Division Secretary (see Information Page, p 260). General information about New Orleans such as museums, parks, other attractions, and program highlights appears in the CHED Newsletter, in issues of Chemical & Engineering News, or as part of the information and Web sites listed on p 243.

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Presentations will be by those who have recently designed and built new or renovated laboratories for teaching and research—from modifying existing spaces to entire buildings. C. Chemistry for Non Majors: Teaching in Never, Never Land—Chemistry in Context Koni Stone, Organizer, Presiding Jeffrey Paradis, Organizer

Chances are very good that students in a liberal studies chemistry class have not had a chemistry class before and will probably never take another. This is our chance to educate future teachers, lawyers, lawmakers, and business leaders. What methods have been tried? What works? Can we alter their perspective of chemistry in just one semester? Chemical Information Literacy—Is It Affordable?

Cosponsored with Division of Chemical Information. Frank Torre ([email protected]) is the chair of the Division of Chemical Education’s Program Committee; Harry E. Pence ( [email protected] ) and Laura E. Pence ([email protected]) are the Meeting Co-Chairs for the New Orleans ACS Meeting.

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Sunday, March 23 (continued)

Noon High School/College Interface Luncheon, Embassy Suites Hotel

Purchase tickets (ACS #103, $30) in advance.

Afternoon A. Demonstrating Chemical Laws and Principles, Noon William C. Deese and John J. Fortman, Organizers, Presiding

Demonstrations using chemicals and supplies available at grocery, hardware, garden, or drug stores and demonstrations explaining the chemistry of everyday technology are featured. B. Teaching Safety at the High School, College, and University: Honoring Jay Young’s 80th Birthday George H. Wahl, Organizer, Presiding

Cosponsored with Division of Chemical Health and Safety. Papers focus on two primary objectives: providing a thorough review and discussion of safety assistance readily available to chemistry faculty, and where and how—in a typical chemistry curriculum—safety might best be taught. C. Chemistry for Non-Majors: Teaching in Never, Never Land—Technology- and Laboratory-Based Approaches Jeffrey Paradis, Organizer, Presiding Koni Stone, Organizer D. James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching Honoring Linda K. Ford, Embassy Suites Hotel (High School Program) Frank J. Torre, Organizer

Cosponsored with Women Chemists Committee. Worthwhile lessons from my classroom. Librarian Watch: Introduction to New Hot Areas in Chemistry

Cosponsored with Division of Chemical Information.

Evening, 7:30–9:30 p.m. A. General Poster Papers Jeremy Miller, Organizer

The breadth and depth of chemistry education will be illustrated with 90 posters.

Morning

Monday, March 24

A. Can We Talk?: Communication in Chemistry Education, 8:10 a.m. Thomas Holme, Organizer

Cosponsored with Presidential Event. This symposium will look at the importance of communication in a variety of ways—communicating with colleagues in other departments (biology, education, engineering), communicating with students in large lecture sections, students communicating with each other, and the effect of technology on communication patterns in courses. B. The Cutting Edge: Use of Computers in Teaching and Learning Chemistry—Computer Technology for Classroom and Laboratory Use Clare Muhoro, Organizer, Presiding Tracy A. Schoolcraft, Organizer

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Email, presentation software, and the Internet were considered innovative instructional technologies a few years ago; now they are used in many classrooms. Rapid changes in instructional technology suggest that methods currently being developed will have a similar impact in the decade ahead. This symposium will focus on some new uses of computing technology and investigate how they may shape chemistry instruction in the next decade. C. Chemistry for Non-Majors: Teaching in Never, Never Land—Courses for Poets, Nurses, Teachers, Inmates, and More! Jeffrey Paradis, Organizer, Presiding Koni Stone, Organizer D. Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Analytical Chemistry, 11:15–1:15 LaTrease E. Garrison, Organizer

Cosponsored with Division of Analytical Chemistry, and Society Committee on Education. On display will be 109 posters in the area of analytical chemistry. E. Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Chemical Education, 11:15–1:15 LaTrease E. Garrison, Organizer

Cosponsored with Society Committee on Education. On display will be 29 posters in the area of chemical education. F. Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Environmental Chemistry, 11:15–1:15 LaTrease E. Garrison, Organizer

Cosponsored with Division of Environmental Chemistry, and Society Committee on Education. On display will be 62 posters in the area of environmental chemistry. G. Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Medicinal Chemistry, 11:15–1:15 LaTrease E. Garrison, Organizer

Cosponsored with Society Committee on Education. On display will be 28 posters in the area of medicinal chemistry. H. Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Organic Chemistry, 11:15–1:15 LaTrease E. Garrison, Organizer

Cosponsored with Society Committee on Education. On display will be 227 posters in the area of organic chemistry. Chemical Careers in the Federal Government

Cosponsored with Society Committee on Education and Younger Chemists Committee.



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Monday, March 24 (continued)

Afternoon

display will be 89 posters in the area of physical chemistry.

A. Can We Talk?: Communication in Chemistry Education, 1:00 p.m. Thomas Holme, Organizer

G. Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Biochemistry, 2:00–4:00 p.m. LaTrease E. Garrison, Organizer

Cosponsored with Presidential Event; see p 242. B. The Cutting Edge: Use of Computers in Teaching and Learning Chemistry—Applications L. J. Anna, Presiding Tracy A. Schoolcraft and Clare Muhoro, Organizers C. Speaking Truth to Power: The Role of Chemists in Government Decision Making, 1:00 p.m. Kristen M. Kulinowski, Organizer, Presiding

Cosponsored with Committee on Environmental Improvement. Chemistry plays a key role in many types of governmental decisions, including trade agreements, economic development, and homeland security and terrorism—as demonstrated by recent history. Chemists may become personally involved in this process, in roles ranging from informed citizen to policy maker, and students need to become more aware of the role chemistry plays in decision making within the government. This symposium will consist of case studies that illustrate common factors that influence how chemistry is used in policy making. D. Program Impact of a One-Semester General Chemistry Requirement, 1:00 p.m. Amy Witter and Linda H. Doerrer, Organizers, Presiding

An increasingly common trend in chemistry curricula is to reduce the traditional two-semester general chemistry sequence to a single foundation course that precedes organic chemistry. The impact of the single-semester general chemistry course on the rest of the program will be explored. E. Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Inorganic Chemistry, 2:00–4:00 p.m. LaTrease E. Garrison, Organizer

Cosponsored with Society Committee on Education. On display will be 90 posters in the area of inorganic chemistry. F. Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Physical Chemistry, 2:00–4:00 p.m. LaTrease E. Garrison, Organizer

Cosponsored with Society Committee on Education. On

Cosponsored with Society Committee on Education. On display will be 160 posters in the area of biochemistry. H. Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Computational Chemistry, 2:00–4:00 p.m. LaTrease E. Garrison, Organizer

Cosponsored with Society Committee on Education. On display will be 32 posters in the area of computational chemistry. I. Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Green Chemistry, 2:00–4:00 p.m. LaTrease E. Garrison, Organizer

Cosponsored with Society Committee on Education. On display will be 17 posters in the area of green chemistry. J. Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Polymer Chemistry, 2:00–4:00 p.m. LaTrease E. Garrison, Organizer

Cosponsored with Society Committee on Education. On display will be 28 posters in the area of polymer chemistry. Analytical Chemistry Workforce of the 21st Century

Cosponsored with Division of Chemical Education. Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences Symposium in Honor of Isiah M. Warner

Cosponsored with Division of Business Development and Management, Division of Chemical Education, Women Chemists Committee, and Younger Chemists Committee.

Evening, 8–10 p.m. A. Sci-Mix: General Posters Frank Torre, Organizer

Thirty-nine posters on chemical education will be presented. B. Sci-Mix: Successful Student Affiliates Chapter Posters LaTrease E. Garrison, Organizer

Cosponsored with Society Committee on Education. This session features 85 posters.

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ACS National Meeting Morning

Tuesday, March 25

A. Advances in Chemical Education Research—Symposium in Honor of George Bodner, 2003 George C. Pimentel Award Winner Gabriela C. Weaver, Organizer

George Bodner, Purdue University, will present the award address. B. The Cutting Edge: Use of Computers in Teaching and Learning Chemistry—General Papers R. McCann, Presiding Tracy A. Schoolcraft and Clare Muhoro, Organizers C. Research in Chemical Education: Investigating Attitudes Vickie M. Williamson, Organizer, Presiding Diana Mason, Organizer

Sponsored by the CHED Committee on Chemistry Education Research, this is a forum for exploration of research conducted on the teaching and learning of chemistry. Three aspects of chemistry education research will be addressed: the motivation for the research and type of problems investigated; the methodology used to gather and interpret the data; the findings and significance of the data’s interpretation. D. State of the Art in Environmental Chemistry, 8:10 a.m. Cindy M. Lee and Melanie M. Cooper, Organizers, Presiding Alan Elzerman, Organizer

Cosponsored with Division of Environmental Chemistry. Environmental chemistry has become an integral aspect of many chemistry programs for a number of reasons: students can apply the chemistry to real world systems; problem solving is embedded in the nature of the subject; students are interested. This symposium will focus on current research projects in the areas of soils, sediments, and aquatic environments that could be adapted for teaching and learning. Incorporating Chemical Safety into the Academic Curriculum, a Tribute to Jay Young, Part One

Cosponsored with Division of Chemical Health and Safety.

Afternoon A. Advances in Chemical Education Research— Symposium in Honor of George Bodner, 2003 George C. Pimentel Award Winner Gabriela C. Weaver, Organizer

C. Research in Chemical Education: Learning through Applied Chemistry Diana Mason, Organizer, Presiding Vickie M. Williamson, Organizer D. ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences Honoring Madeleine Jacobs, 1:45 p.m. Valerie Barrett, Organizer, Presiding

Wednesday, March 26

A. Distance Learning in Chemistry Doris R. Kimbrough, Organizer, Presiding

Different methods and approaches to offering chemistry courses to students who do not (or cannot) attend onsite lectures and laboratories will be explored. Both successes and failures will be examined, and the singular challenges of the chemistry laboratory will receive particular attention. B. Best Practices in Undergraduate Research S. M. Baker, Presiding John G. Stevens, Organizer C. Research in Chemical Education: New Technologies That Aid Learning Vickie M. Williamson, Organizer, Presiding Diana Mason, Organizer

Afternoon A. Preparing Future Faculty, 1:00 p.m. Arlene Russell, Organizer, Presiding B. New Models for Conducting Research at Undergraduate Institutions T. J. Wenzel, Presiding John G. Stevens, Organizer C. Research in Chemical Education: New Strategies to Improve Student Learning J. E. Lewis, Presiding Diana Mason and Vickie M. Williamson, Organizers

Morning

Thursday, March 27

A. Alternative Assignments: Assessment and Evaluation Debra Bautista, Organizer, Presiding Abby Parrill-Baker, Organizer

Development of alternative assessment techniques is increasingly common in chemistry courses. This symposium will focus on development of alternative assessment tools, incorporation of those techniques in chemistry classes, student and instructor reactions, and accurate evaluation of the results. B. General Oral Papers: I. Laboratory Experiences Kurt R. Birdwhistell, Organizer, Presiding C. Research in Chemical Education: Conceptual Understanding/ Inquiry Diana Mason, Organizer, Presiding Vickie M. Williamson, Organizer

Afternoon, 1 p.m. A. General Oral Papers II T. G. Spence, Presiding Kurt R. Birdwhistell, Organizer B. General Oral Papers III M. A. Tarr, Presiding Kurt R. Birdwhistell, Organizer C. General Oral Papers IV W. F. Walkenhorst, Presiding Kurt R. Birdwhistell, Organizer

Cosponsored with Women Chemists Committee. Incorporating Chemical Safety into the Academic Curriculum, a Tribute to Jay Young, Part Two

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B. The Cutting Edge: Use of Computers in Teaching and Learning Chemistry—Molecular Modeling and Computational Chemistry A. H. Predecki, Presiding Tracy A. Schoolcraft and Clare Muhoro, Organizers

Morning

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