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Association Report: ACS Division of Chemical Education
Executive Committee Report, April 2002 by Marcy Towns, Jerry L. Sarquis, Mickey Sarquis
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CHED Web site, http://divched.chem.wisc.edu/ The agenda for the Fall Executive Committee Meeting will be distributed as an Adobe Acrobat pdf file that will be posted on the CHED Web site by August 1, 2002. The tentative plan is to have the abstracts that are part of the CHED Newsletter posted at the CHED Web site as well. Plans are underway to have CHED committees submit semi-annual reports that will be available for viewing at the CHED Web site, http://divched.chem.wisc.edu/. Outreach Office In August 2001, the Executive Committee authorized an Outreach Office to coordinate new member recruiting. Betty Moore, who will be in charge of this effort, may be reached at
[email protected]. The Outreach Office will be responsible for providing materials about all CHED activities to those running teacher workshops or attending meetings, such as ACS regional, NSTA, and state teachers’ associations conferences, etc., as well as for processing new CHED membership applications. If you wish to distribute CHED promotional materials, please contact her. Recognition Committee The Executive Committee authorized the Recognition Committee to select a CHED member for recognition of long-term contributions to the Division. The annual award will be presented at the Fall CHED banquet. Be an Active CHED Member Do you wish to become involved with a CHED committee? Make your interest known by contacting the com-
mittee chair. A list of those serving on CHED committees may be found on the CHED Web site: http:// divched.chem.wisc.edu/, click on Committees/Activities, and then click here at the end of the paragraph at the top of the page. This will lead to an Adobe Acrobat pdf file of the Totem Pole that has the names and contact information for all committees. Are you interested in Safety? The ACS Safety Committee wishes to have a joint committee with CHED with the goal of getting more safety into the curriculum at the college and pre-college level. For more information or to volunteer, contact the CHED Safety Committee Chair, Doug Mandt,
[email protected]. ACS Awards Presented at CHED Sessions Recipients of four ACS awards for 2002 presented their award addresses as part of the CHED Program at the Spring meeting in Orlando (see their photographs below). Theresa R. Corley (Conant Award) spoke on “Excellence in Science Teaching: Critical Issues in the Classroom”. Michael P. Doyle’s title (Pimentel Award) was “Academic Excellence: The Role of Research”. “Some Perspectives and Results from Four Decades of Undergraduate Research” was the title of Thomas C. Werner’s talk (Research at an Undergraduate Institution). Barbara A. Sawrey’s title (Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences) was “Motivating Students Is a Kinetically Controlled Process.” Report from the ACS Council A number of actions were carried out during the Council meeting at the 223rd National ACS meeting in Orlando. By voice vote the council approved yearly dues of $116 for 2003. From the four nominees for 2003 president-elect of ACS, Charles P. Casey of the University of Wisconsin–Madison,
Photos by Morton Z. Hoffman
2002 ACS Award Winners Theresa R. Corley, Mountain Brook High School, Birmingham, AL, received the James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching sponsored by Albemarle Corp. She is flanked by Charles Eberly (left, Albemarle Corp.) and Lee Summerlin (right, University of Alabama-Birmingham).
Michael P. Doyle, University of Arizona and Research Corp. (left), recipient of the George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education, sponsored by Dow Chemical Co. He is shown receiving the award citation from Robert Lichter, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
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Association Report: ACS Division of Chemical Education and Alvin L. Kwiram of the University of Washington, won a written vote among councilors and will be the two nominees running for election this fall. The nominees for ACS Directors for 2003–2005 are: Maureen Chan and Madeleine Joullie, District III; Howard Peters and Stephen Rodemeyer, District IV; James Burke, Daryle Busch, Merle Eiss, and C. Gordon McCarty for Director at Large. In his address to the council, ACS president Eli Pearce discussed regional meetings: “The goal is for regional meetings to have the same stature as national meetings.” Thus the inclusion of chemical education programming at regional meetings supported by Mort Hoffman and the CHED Regional Meetings Committee is of vital importance. Pearce discussed leadership development as a key activity for the society in light of the fact that the percentage of members under the age of 40 is increasing while the percentage of officers over the age of 40 is also increasing. Pearce indicated that he had asked the Society Committee on Education (SOCED) to look at a reinvented chemistry curriculum for both graduate and undergraduate chemistry education: What would the curricula look like if they were developed from scratch? He also emphasized the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of chemistry and the need for interdisciplinarity to be part of the curriculum. The Board of Directors announced that Zafra M. Lerman had been selected as the 2003 recipient of the Charles Lathrop Parsons Award in recognition of her outstanding public service to chemistry. Nina McClelland, chair of the Board of Directors, reported that the Board adopted the 2002 operating expense budget recommended by the Committee on Budget and Finance with a not-to-exceed $2 million deficit. She also stated that they hoped the 2003 budget would cut this number in half, and that the 2004 operating expense budget would have no deficit. In other actions and announcements, the Council approved a change in status for the Women’s Chemist Committee from an “other” committee to a joint board-council
committee. The petition to increase the size of society committees was postponed to the Boston meeting. The petition to modify Local Section and Division support was withdrawn and not discussed. The theme for National Chemistry Week (NCW) 2002 will be “Chemistry Keeps Us Clean”; the theme for NCW 2003 will be “Chemistry of the Atmosphere”. The Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs announced that the National Employment Clearinghouse at the Boston meeting would be paperless and fully automated, allowing registration until just before the meeting itself. (On-site registration will not be allowed.) For those interested in making travel plans early, the Meetings and Expositions Committee (M&E) announced that in 2003 the spring meeting will be in New Orleans and the fall meeting in Indianapolis. M&E also announced that more than 12,000 members had registered for the spring 2002 ACS meeting in Orlando, exceeding the “expected” number in the current budget. M&E also anticipates implementing a new A/V policy for 2003, but did not announce what that policy will be. The policy guiding Sci-Mix will also be revised, but no details were provided. Jeanne Pemberton, Chair of the Committee on Professional Training (CPT), presented highlights of the library survey recently completed and published in the CPT Newsletter. In particular she stated that the increase in subscription costs coupled with declining financial resources devoted to library holdings at many B.S. and M.S. institutions may result in chemistry undergraduates not receiving adequate experience in using the chemical literature. CPT asked that the Committee on Publications be aware of this issue and consider it when setting the price structure for ACS journals. Pemberton also discussed the ACS-approved Chemistry Education option for majors and the development of a chemistry education minor. The Committee on Minority Affairs noted that the Scholars Program, along with Project SEED, was awarded a 2001 U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in SME mentoring.
Photos by Morton Z. Hoffman
We Salute Them! Barbara A. Sawrey of the University of California–San Diego (right), recipient of the ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences, sponsored by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. She is shown receiving the award citation from her colleague, Marjorie Caserio. Thomas C. Werner poses with some of his students from Union College. Werner received the ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution, sponsored by Research Corp.
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Association Report: ACS Division of Chemical Education ACS Division of Chemical Education 2002 Election of Officers Candidates for the 2002 annual election of Division officers for 2003 appear below. Ballots will be mailed in late July; completed ballots must be received by the Secretary by October 1, 2002. Both ACS and affiliate members of the Division may vote for the offices of Chair-Elect and Treasurer; only ACS members may vote for Councilor/Alternate Councilor, since these are ACS as well as DivCHED offices.
Chair-Elect (Chair in 2004) •
John Clevenger, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, NV
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Richard Jones, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH
Treasurer (2003–2005) •
Mark Cracolice, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
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Anna Wilson, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Councilor/Alternate Councilor (2003–2005) •
Claire A. Baker, Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School, Indianapolis, IN
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Laura Pence, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
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Susan Shadle, Boise State University, Boise, ID
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Marcy Towns, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
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Carol White, Athens Area Technical Institute, Athens, GA
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Donald J. Wink, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
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