Chemical Education Today
News & Announcements News from Journal House Recent Releases, JCE Software Journal of Chemical Education on CD-ROM has been released by JCE Software and shipped to those who have placed orders. See http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/Journal/Issues/ 2002/Jan/abs136.html for more information about this as well as other new and upcoming issues from JCE Software. •
Journal of Chemical Education on CD-ROM, 2001 contains two full years of JCE Issues (January–December 2001 and January–December 2000) on one small CD-ROM. It works on both Macintosh and Windows computers and contains the full text, graphics, tables, abstracts, and color for everything published in the Journal, including supplemental materials and annual index. This annual CD is formatted so that the articles retain their original printed appearance and are easy to find and view: with a few mouse clicks you can easily locate, read, and print an article from your computer. Full-text searching for any author, title, word, or phrase enables you to find what you are looking for, quickly. A complete description appears in J. Chem. Educ. 2002, 79, 136 or in JCE Online at http://jchemed.chem. wisc.edu/Journal/Issues/2002/Jan/abs136.html.
Courses, Seminars, Meetings, Opportunities 17th BCCE The 17th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE) will be held July 28–August 1, 2002 at Western Washington University, Bellingham. The deadline for submission of abstracts for papers and poster papers was February 25, 2002. The conference Registration book will be available in March, at which time the outline of the program will be available on the BCCE Web site at http://chem.wwu.edu/acs/ bcce/index.html. A conference brochure has been mailed to all members and affiliate members of the ACS Division of Chemical Education. Information may also be found on the BCCE Web site, including that about travel and vacations. Conference attendees will find the Bellingham area a convenient place to coordinate with a summer vacation in the Pacific Northwest. If you have ideas for a Birds-of-a-Feather session, please send them to Sara Selfe (
[email protected]). If you want to be sure that your name is on the BCCE mailing list or if you have any questions about the conference—how to get there,
where to stay, what to do, or how much it will cost—contact the General Chair, George S. Kriz:
[email protected], phone 360/650-3126. CUR, Ninth National Conference The Ninth National Conference of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) will be held June 19–22, 2002, at Connecticut College, New London, CT. CUR, founded in 1978 by chemists at primarily undergraduate institutions, has as its mission to support and promote highquality undergraduate student/faculty collaborative research and scholarship. Membership in the organization, from more than 870 colleges and universities, includes the natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, and social sciences. This year’s conference features 15 concurrent sessions of presentations, panel discussions, and workshops that address both general issues on undergraduate research and disciplinespecific topics. The conference also offers opportunities for informal interactions and has a child care program (CUR Kids) during the conference. Further information as well as online registration may be accessed from the CUR Web site at www.cur.org. Environmental Chemistry Symposium A Symposium on Environmental Chemistry will be held Friday, May 17, 2002, at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada. The primary purpose of the symposium is to enable chemical educators, chemistry students, chemists, and environmental scientists to hear outstanding speakers on a wide range of current topics in environmental chemistry. Details of the symposium can be found at www.swgc.mun.ca/chem/chemsymposium.html. Other events accompany the symposium: a one-day excursion to Gros Morne National Park is planned for Thursday, May 16; following this symposium the Atlantic Region Student Chemistry Conference—ChemCon2002—and the Annual General Meeting of the Atlantic Region of the Chemical Institute of Canada will be held. For more information contact Geoff Rayner-Canham, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Corner Brook, NF, A2H 6P9, Canada; phone: 709/ 637-6200, ext. 6327; email:
[email protected]. Proposal Deadlines Proposal deadlines will not appear this month. Readers should consult page 160 of the February 2002 issue or JCE Online (http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/Journal/Issues/2002/Feb/ abs159.html).
Here’s your chance to meet the JCE staff: July 28–August 1, 2002, Exposition
17th BCCE, Bellingham, Washington
Booth 559 at the Exposition
Spring ACS Meeting in Orlando
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