Lab Attendance Policy?

Submitted by Nicole Crowder / University of Mary Washington on Thu, 04/11/2019 - 15:28

I'm curious about whether your institution or department has an attendance policy for your lab-based classes?

For our courses that include a lab (i.e. - general chemistry with lab), our departmental policy is that if a student misses 3 labs, they fail the entire course.

For courses that are just lab (i.e. - inorganic lab, biochemistry lab), the policy can vary based on instructor. But if a student misses more than two labs, they probaly aren't going to do very well in the course anyways.

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3D molecules in PowerPoint: Tutorials

Hi all,

I have created short tutorials that show how 3D molecules can easily be created and inserted in PowerPoint. Combined with animations and the powerful Morph slide transition, the use of these 3D molecules can significantly enhance PowerPoint presentations. Perhaps of higher interest to VIPErs will be Tutorials #1 and #3 that show how to create 3D molecules from .cif files and from ChemDraw structures.

 

Here is a 1-minute introductory video that shows some of what can be done:

Luc Boisvert / University of Puget Sound Tue, 04/09/2019 - 02:49
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Post serious errors in Inorganic texts, not noticed by proof readers

Submitted by Poloxymetman / Canisius College on Mon, 03/04/2019 - 15:05

I am proposing that we establish a menu on Viper, where we report errors that we found in inorganic texts, so that others do not have to go through the same waste of time as we did when we were trying to understand something that eventually turned out to be incorrect.

I have just found one error recently, which took me a while to finally recognize it as an error, and then I thought about this proposal.

What do others think?

 

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Diatomic MO Theory Lab?

Submitted by Hilary Eppley / DePauw University on Thu, 01/17/2019 - 12:05

Does anyone have a good MO theory lab that they've used that gets students to calculate diatomic MO orbitals, look at them, and look at things like how sp mixing (and orbital energies) varies across the row and how electronegativity differences affect the energy and characters of the resulting orbitals?  Using spectral data and matching it to orbitals would be cool too.  We have a good place to fit this into our intro course this semester and haven't done a lab like this before.   

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Help with vibrational analysis

As I begin my 19th year of teaching I realize that I do not have a good grasp of group theory or how to formally use it to determine the number of IR active vibrations in a species. I am trying to come up with a good exercise for my students that could introduce them to point groups and character tables.

Anthony L. Fernandez / Merrimack College Wed, 09/26/2018 - 18:45
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Request for faculty to trial test concept inventories for General Chemistry

Submitted by Flo / Slytherin' State on Thu, 09/06/2018 - 19:03

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to invite you to participate in a chemistry education research project to learn more about your students’ conceptual understanding of important chemistry topics.

Through a grant from the National Science Foundation, my graduate students and I have developed two concept inventories for use in college chemistry classrooms. These assessments are suitable for general chemistry, physical chemistry, and biophysical chemistry. Brief descriptions of these multiple-choice assessments can be found below.

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