National ACS Award Winners 2022 LO Collection

Submitted by Shirley Lin / United States Naval Academy on Sat, 03/12/2022 - 07:01

This collection of learning objects was created to celebrate the National ACS Award Winners 2022 who are members of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry. The list of award winners is shown below. 

Developing student learning goals and assessments for VIPEr learning objects
Description

All VIPEr learning objects are supposed to include clear student learning goals and a suggested way to assess the learning. This "five slides about" provides a brief introduction to the "Understanding by Design" or "backward design" approach to curriculum development and will help you develop your VIPEr learning object.

Joanne Stewart / Hope College Sat, 06/20/2009 - 07:47
SLiThEr #65: Publishing at a PUI
Description

Kyle Grice (DePaul) and Jacob Lutter (University of Southern Indiana) will present on how they have been successful in designing and publishing research at their respective PUI.

Chip Nataro / Lafayette College Mon, 07/28/2025 - 07:52

SLiThEr #64: Developing ACS Guidelines for Undergraduate Chemistry Programs

Submitted by Chip Nataro / Lafayette College on Mon, 07/28/2025 - 07:41
Description

A discussion about the 2023 ACS Guidelines for Undergraduate Chemistry Programs with Michelle Brooks (Assistant Director of the Office of Higher Education at ACS), Cora MacBeth (Emory University) and Barb Reisner (James Madison University). Additional discussion is available to registered faculty users.

SLiThEr #63: Catching up with Reilly and Sydney

Submitted by Chip Nataro / Lafayette College on Mon, 07/28/2025 - 07:25
Description

This goes back to SLiThEr #14 when we interviewed two senior undergraduates in the midst of the COVID pandemic. At the time of this SLiThEr, both are in graduate school and getting close to their PhD.

Reilly Gwinn (Virginia Tech) and Sydney Towell (UNC - Chapel Hill) update us on their career paths.

Interpreting Tanabe-Sunago diagrams

Submitted by Adam Johnson / Harvey Mudd College on Mon, 03/24/2025 - 17:27
Description

I was lecturing along today, teaching the basics of the theory and how to interpret Tanabe-Sunago diagrams, and I got to my slides where I show them how to calculate ∆o from Co(en)3, and it just fell apart. I had done V(III) as a first example, and then I wanted the students to practice the calculations, but my slides were not up to the task. I thought to myself, in the moment, this would be a good opportunity to do an in-class activity, I should write it. So, in the spirit of making next year easier, I did. I have not used this in class, but I wish I had had it this morning. 

3D Printed Crystal Structure Activity

Submitted by Chris Stromberg / Hood College on Wed, 03/19/2025 - 18:49
Description

This exercises uses beads to help show how different crystal structures are formed.  The exercise includes 3D-printed boxes with starting structures incorporated in the bottom to increase the stability of structures that students build.  The exercise also includes a number of additional 3D-printed manipulatives to help students visualize the unit cells and other properties of different crystal structures.  These include unit cells with accurate atomic and hold dimensions and several different ways to visualize the layer structures in close-packed structures.

Scandium Carbonyls - mysterious myth or legendary legend?

Submitted by James F. Dunne / Central College on Thu, 03/06/2025 - 14:36
Description

This literature discussion is based on a short JACS communication reporting the first isolable Sc(II) carbonyls (not a typo) and isocyanides.  The paper discusses some standard synthesis and characterization while exploring a more fundamental question regarding why Sc, a d-block metal, is considered a rare-earth and when it stops reacting analogously to the rare-earth metals.  The LO focuses on ye olde carbonyl stretching frequencies and back-bonding and makes a nice follow up to an introduction to that concept.  It tries to make students explicitly connect electron configuration to changes