VIPEr Screencast
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This screencast is a brief introduction to some of the features of VIPEr.
Marie Curie
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This is written for a freshman seminar course, "Nuclear Chemistry and Medicine," open to all majors. It meets once per week for one hour, and is meant to facilitate the transition into college for first-year students by providing an informal educational experience.
Letters of recommendation
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This is a document that I hand out to every student I have, outlining what I
Geochronology: radiocarbon dating
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This is written for a freshman seminar course, "Nuclear Chemistry and Medicine," open to all majors. It meets once per week for one hour, and is meant to facilitate the transition into college for first-year students by providing an informal educational experience. It should be adaptable to a lecture-format course, and I will try to do this for my Junior-year Inorganic Chemistry.
Communication-style lab reports
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For the past four years, I have required my inorganic students to write short 3-page formal lab reports in the form of communication to the Journal of the American Chemical Society. This exercise has relieved some of the stress on my students who are writing reports of other science classes and simplified my grading. Using Jeffrey Kovac's Writing Across the Chemistry Curriculum: An Instructor's Handbook as a starting point, I have developed a rubric to provide qualitative feedback to the stu
Exploring Photographic Chemistry
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This set of experiments is a fun way for students to be experience interesting redox chemistry. I have taught this series of experiments in my first semester junior level inorganic class for the past 5 years. In part 1, students create salted paper prints with different binders. Part 2 involves the synthesis of Prussian blue as cyanotypes are formed on paper and cloth. In part 3, students design t
Pigment Syntheses and Qualitative Analysis
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This set of experiments provides an introduction to simple inorganic synthesis and qualitative analysis of inorganic pigments. I have taught this series of experiments in my first semester junior level inorganic class for the past 5 years. In part 1, students synthesize five inorganic pigments. Part 2 involves identifying an unknown inorganic white pigment by chemical and physical tests. These
The History of the 18-Electron Rule
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This learning object focuses on fundamental concepts of organometallic chemistry. I use an article published in the Journal of Chemical Education (Jensen, W.B. "The Origin of the 18-Electron Rule," J. Chem. Educ.
Student Literature-Based Organometallic Lecture
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I taught an advanced inorganic chemistry course for the first time this past fall. I focused strictly on organometallic chemistry and we used Spessard and Miessler's book. Because this book is focused on transition metal organometallics, I wanted the students to appreciate some of the organometallic chemistry of the s- and p-block (and zinc). Students worked in pairs (the class size was 12) and had most of the semester to research the literature and develop a 40-50 minute lecture. I also had them develop homework questions and an in class activity to help engage the other students.
12 Slides About African American Contributions to the Chemical Sciences
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This presentation provides a brief overview of the contributions of five AfricanAmerican chemists, including two inorganic chemists. George Washington Carver is quite often themost celebrated African American chemist (soil chemist), but he is only one individual! There are many other African Americans that have made important and significant contributions to the chemical sciences. The profiles include inorganic chemists, namely, Professor Gregory H. Robinson, University of Georgia and Dr. Novella Bridges, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).