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Association Report: ACS Division of Chemical Education
Executive Committee Report, April 2003 by Richard F. Jones, Thomas A. Holme, and Jerry L. Sarquis
Executive Committee Agenda, New CHED Web Site The Executive Committee agenda for the ACS New York City meeting will be distributed as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. It will be posted on the new CHED Web site, http://www.divched.org/ by August 30. Semi-annual reports of CHED committees will be available at this site. Get Involved! Do you wish to become involved with a CHED committee? Make your interest known by contacting the committee chair. A list of those currently working on CHED committees can be found at the CHED Web site. Click on Committees/Activities. There are links to descriptions of the role of each committee (described fully in the Operations Manual) and to contact information for Officers, Committee Chairs, and members (the Totem Pole) at http:// www.divched.org/CHED-committees.html. In addition, some of committees have their own Web sites and links, which are found on the same page. Outreach Office The Outreach Office, established in 2002, continues to coordinate new member recruiting. Betty Moore (608/2625155;
[email protected]) and Lin Morris (608/2625153;
[email protected]) are in charge of this effort. The Outreach Office is responsible for processing new
Candidates for CHED Chair-Elect pose at the Division of Chemical Education/Journal of Chemical Education booth at the Exposition: Allene Johnson (Summit High School, left) and Morton Hoffman (Boston University, right)
CHED membership applications and providing materials about CHED to those running teacher workshops or attending meetings, such as ACS regional, NSTA, and state teachers association meetings. If you wish to distribute CHED promotional materials, please contact Betty or Lin.
2003 Election of Officers A slate of officers for the 2003 election was approved; it appears below. ACS Awards Presented at CHED Sessions Recipients of three ACS awards for 2003 presented their award addresses as part of the CHED program at the Spring meeting in New Orleans. Their photographs appear at the
ACS Division of Chemical Education 2003 Election of Officers Candidates for the 2003 annual election of Division officers for 2004 appear below. Ballots will be mailed in August; completed ballots must be received by the Secretary by October 1, 2003. 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.
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Morton Z. Hoffman, Boston University, Boston, MA
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Allene Johnson, Summit High School, Summit, NJ
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Mark Freilich, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN
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Doris R. Kimbrough, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO
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Laura Pence, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
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Adele Salerno, Milford, OH
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Arlyne (Mickey) Sarquis, Miami University at Middletown, Middletown, OH
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Susan Shadle, Boise State University, Boise, ID
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WE SALUTE THE 2003
Notes from the ACS Council The slate of nominees for ACS president-elect was finalized following three-minute speeches by the four candidates. William F. Carroll, Jr. and Michael E. Strem were elected as the nominees. President Elsa Reichmanis acknowledged the current war, the opposition of ACS to chemical warfare, and our profession’s contribution to homeland security. She and president-elect Charles Casey expressed the importance of long-range research to the future of the United States. Eli Pearce, Past President, outlined his three challenges to the society: to increase diversity, to re-invent chemical education, and to increase the interactions between ACS Divisions and Local Sections. The petition to amend the ACS Constitution and Bylaws with respect to Division and Local Section funding was discussed for more than 45 minutes but passed with a voice vote. The proposed changes will be submitted to the general membership for approval prior to the next election. There will be an extensive education campaign to explain the details of this proposal. While the American Chemical Society has lost money recently ($1.87 million in 2002), we are in far better shape than most professional societies. Adjustments to fees are being made to offset the losses. The Council approved dues of $120 for 2004. The Society Committee on Education (SOCED) will host an invitational conference in June to address the challenge to re-structure chemical education along more interdisciplinary lines than the historic ones of organic, physical, analytical, inorganic, and biochemistry. Also, SOCED is working with NSTA to develop new standards for new K–12 teacher preparation, and is also concerned with poor retention in the teaching profession of K–12 teachers. Examinations Institute
ACS AWARD WINNERS photos by Morton Z. Hoffman
right. Linda Ford (Conant Award) spoke on “Worthwhile Lessons from My Classroom”. Madeleine Jacobs (ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences) had as the title of her award address, “Opening the Doors for Women in Chemistry: Why We Need Keys to the Doors”. The title of George Bodner’s Pimentel Award address was “Twenty Years of Learning How To Do Research in Chemical Education”. Also honored were Jay Young (belatedly, celebrating his 80th birthday) and Zafra Lerman (as the recipient of the Parsons Award); their photographs appear on p 726.
Madeleine Jacobs (editor, Chemical & Engineering News), winner of the ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences sponsored by The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., presenting her award address.
Linda Ford (Seven Hills School, Cincinnati, OH, at right), winner of the James Br yant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching sponsored by Albemarle Corporation, receives her award certificate from Charles Everly of Albemarle Corporation.
George Bodner (Purdue University, at right), winner of the George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education, with his colleague, Gabriela Weaver.
Compromised Exams The Examinations Institute has been busy this spring. The 1994 and 1998 Organic Exams were posted on the JChemEd.chem.wisc.edu • Vol. 80 No. 7 July 2003 • Journal of Chemical Education
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Host the 2008 BCCE The ACS Division of Chemical Education requests bids to host the 20th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE) in 2008. To explore the possibility of hosting a BCCE, please request a copy of the “Biennial Conference Planning Guide” that has been designed to assist you in determining whether adequate support and resources are available at your institution for hosting a successful conference.
Linda Ford presenting her Conant Award Address, “Worthwhile Lessons from My Classroom.”
Internet without the Institute’s permission. Because security of the exams had been compromised, the Institute attempted to contact all who had purchased these exams and offered a one-for-one swap with the 2002 Organic Exam at no cost to anybody who had not already purchased the 2002 Exam. If you had these compromised exams and were missed in the mailing about the swap program, you can contact Tom Holme, the Director, at
[email protected] to request information about the replacement program. As authorized by the Board of Trustees of the Exams Institute, this program expires on June 30, 2003, but if you were missed the Exams Institute will handle the situation on a case-by-case basis. The Institute wishes to thank the chemical education community for its patience with the replacement program. The Institute is doubling its efforts to prevent any future security compromises on any scale.
Volunteer! Aside from this unusual event, the Institute continues in its usual pattern. We always need volunteers to work on exam development, so if you are interested there will be committees forming over the summer. Go to the Web site at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/chemexams/ and click on the “Volunteering” button on virtually any page to get to the forms where you can sign up.
BCCE Objectives The goals of the BCCE conferences are to facilitate the exchange of ideas and to create and maintain contacts among all those interested in chemical education. Since each site has its own unique attractions, the conferences also seek to create an informal setting where families may enjoy the various peripheral amenities. We encourage you to think about the possibility of hosting the 2008 BCCE. Benefits of Hosting the BCCE Each BCCE offers its organizers an extraordinary opportunity for personal and professional growth. The host institution is able to bring its chemistry program, in both chemical education and traditional research, to the focused attention of more than 1400 teachers of high school and undergraduate chemistry nationwide and beyond. Hosting the BCCE may enhance your ability to recruit undergraduate and graduate students as well as new faculty. The BCCE has been shown to have a positive influence on local K–12 teachers, which can help establish or strengthen cooperative local programs. Although hosting the BCCE provides its organizers with significant administrative experience, it is the organizers who provide us all with the most precious commodity… an invaluable service to the profession. For more information contact George Kriz, BCCE Committee Chair-Elect, Western Washington University, Department of Chemistry, MS 9150, Bellingham, WA 98225;
[email protected]; phone: 360/650-3126; fax: 360/650-2826.
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HONORED AT THE NEW ORLEANS ACS MEETING
Incorporating Chemical Safety into the Academic Curriculum: A Tribute to Jay Young. The honoree, Jay Young, (left) is shown with George Wahl (North Carolina State University), the symposium organizer.
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Zafra Lerman (Columbia College, Chicago, at left) is shown receiving the Charles Lathrop Parsons Award from Nina McClelland, Chair of the ACS Board of Directors. The award is sponsored by the American Chemical Society.
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