News from Journal HouseIntroducing JCE ChemInfo: OrganicThis issue introduces JCE ChemInfo: Organic, a collection of Web pages containing a wealth of information useful to teachers, researchers, and students in organic chemistry. Descriptive information and a list of URLs is available, but actually visiting the sites is the best way to realize the breadth and depth of the resources. The collection is divided into three main categories: Nomenclature, NMR Spectroscopy, and pKa Values. JCE ChemInfo: Organic has collected in one place a variety of useful information that is not available anywhere else. Honoring Great Teaching: The DivCHED Teaching Excellence Endowment CampaignThe Division of Chemical Education Teaching Excellence Endowment is still soliciting contributions to support great science teaching at the high school level. To date, more than $35,000 has been raised toward the goal of a $300,000 endowment that will support awards for high school science teachers in every Region of the ACS. With these funds, each ACS region will be able to award $1000 annually to an outstanding high school teacher. To encourage contributions and underscore its commitment, the Division of Chemical Education Executive Committee has authorized a challenge grant through which the first $100,000 in contributions will be matched on a 1:1 basis. Contributions to fund the awards, to be known as the Division of Chemical Education Regional Award in High School Teaching, can be made by sending a check, payable to the American Chemical Society, to the ACS Department of Meetings and Expositions Services, c/o CHED HS Fund, ACS, 1155 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036. A downloadable donation form is available (accessed Jan 2005). Most of us know that without that special teacher our lives would be very different. Here is an opportunity to provide awards for our great teachers—and you may make your donation in honor of your own special teacher. Help with OutreachIf you are planning outreach activities this spring or during the summer that are large or small in scope, at your home institution or at a meeting or conference, get in touch with the CHED Outreach Office. We can help you make the event a success by sending you a selection of pertinent and teacher-tested materials to your participants. In addition to free materials, there will be information that will enable those participants to get connected with what is going on in chemical education—for instance joining the Division of Chemical Education, getting information about the standardized tests from the Examinations Institute, getting JCE in print and online, learning about CLIC (the special JCE portal for high school teachers), knowing about upcoming conferences. The Outreach Office can make your life easier and the event a success—just give us a lead time of about three weeks.
Photos from 2004 ACS Regional Meetings
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| ACS president (2005) Bill Carroll is flanked by Barbara Sawrey (left,
University of California–San Diego) and Maureen Scharberg (right, San Jose
State University), co-organizers of the symposium, Preparing for Teaching
Chemistry: A First or Second Career, at the Western Regional Meeting in
October 2004. |
Bill Carroll (2005 ACS president), Helen Free (former ACS president),
and Boyd Earl (University of Nevada–Las Vegas) at the CHED Outreach display
table at the Western Regional Meeting in October 2004. Earl was the CHED
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| Allene Johnson, CHED facilitator at the CHED Outreach display table at
the Northeast Regional Meeting. |
Charles Casey (2004 ACS president) presents the 2004 Northeast Region
Award for Excellence in High School Chemistry Teaching to Jamie Cucinotta
of Fayetteville-Manlius High School, Manlius, NY) at the Northeast Regional
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Award DeadlinesApplications Being Accepted for the Dorothy and Moses Passer Education FundThis Fund was established by a generous donation from Dorothy and Moses Passer. Moses (Mike) Passer was for many years the head of the ACS Education Division. The Fund is to be used for grants that provide support for teachers in programs at two- and four-year colleges or universities that do not have advanced degree programs in the chemical sciences. The awards are to support continuing education activities that must be directly related to the applicant’s teaching and that must take them away from their campus. The applicant must be a full-time faculty member at his or her institution. The applications are reviewed by a committee. There is no application form but the application must include a description of the proposed activity and how it relates to the applicant’s teaching with dates, locations, titles, and contacts; a brief description of the applicant’s institution and department; a short curriculum vitae; an itemized estimate of expenses, amount of aid requested including applicant’s own funds, and sources of all supplemental funds. No support will be given for general attendance at national, regional, or local ACS meetings nor for any sabbatical leaves. Closing dates are three times each year: January 1, April 1, and September 1. Electronic applications are much preferred. For further information or inquiries, contact Donald E. Jones; 3726 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Apt. 108, Washington, DC 20008. Courses, Seminars, Meetings, Opportunities2005 Schedule of Free NSF-Sponsored WorkshopsThe NSF-sponsored Center for Workshops in the Chemical Sciences (CWCS) announces its 2005 program. These week-long workshops are designed for faculty and staff with instructional responsibilities at the undergraduate-level at universities, colleges, community colleges, and other educational institutions. Individuals who plan to embark on a career in college teaching (advanced graduate students and post-docs) are also welcome. The workshops are designed to provide a background and modern perspective on various topics in the chemical sciences along with methods to introduce these topics into the college curriculum. They all involve extensive hands-on activities. Registration, housing, and a per diem for food are provided at no cost to participants. Some support might also be available to cover the cost of travel to the workshops. The workshops engage faculty in new areas and provide great support for enhancing the curriculum at a variety of institutions. - Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT: May 15–20, 2005 - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Washington State University, Pullman, WA: May 22–27, 2005 - Practical Aspects of Process Analytical Chemistry
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN: June 11–16, 2005 - Surface Analysis
Kettering University, Flint, MI: June 19–24, 2005 - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
The University of Georgia, Athens, GA: June 19–24, 2005 - Modern Biomolecular Crystallography 1
California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton, CA: June 23–28, 2005 - Green Chemistry
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR: July 24–29, 2005 - Teaching Guided-Inquiry Organic Chemistry Labs
University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA: July 31–August 5, 2005 - Solid Phase Synthesis and an Introduction to Combinatorial Chemistry
Miami University, Oxford, OH: July 31–August 5, 2005
Further information about CWCS, descriptions of individual workshops, and an application form are available (accessed Jan 2005). Materials AvailableCosmos in the Classroom 2004 Available
The non-profit Astronomical Society of the Pacific announces the publication
of Cosmos in the Classroom—papers, handouts, and resource guides
from a national meeting held in July 2004 to consider how to improve the teaching
of astronomy for non-science majors. There are 68 contributions in these categories:
Astronomy Education Research and the Introductory Astronomy Classroom Going Beyond the Lecture: New Ways of Teaching New Technology and the Astronomy Classroom Laboratory and Observing Experiences for Non-science Majors Interdisciplinary Approaches to Astronomy Teaching Training Future K–12 Teachers in Astronomy Organizations and Web Sites for Astronomy Instructors Special Projects, Special Needs, and Special Places to Teach
Designed for university, small-college, and senior high-school faculty who teach introductory astronomy, the volume is full of practical advice, activities that can be put to direct use, and hands-on resources for teaching more effectively. The cost is $39.95. A table of contents is available; to place an order, go to the AstroShop online store (both sites accessed Jan 2005).
2005 ACS Academic Employment Initiative
Spring 2005 ACS Meeting
“Academic Hiring: How Do You Get the Job?” kicks
off the second year of the ACS Academic Employment Initiative (AEI)
on Sunday, March 13. The format will be an interactive panel discussion
from 8=–11 a.m. followed by a networking reception over light
refreshments to allow for informal communication among the audience,
panelists, and moderators. Panelists will respond to specific questions
from the audience and from the session moderators, Cynthia Burrows
(University of Utah) and Charles Casey (University of Wisconsin–Madison).
All types of institutions that recruit Ph.D. chemists for faculty positions
are represented on the panel: three faculty members who have experience
in hiring faculty—Joe Francisco (Purdue University), Kerry Karukstis
(Harvey Mudd College), and Carlos Guiterriez (California State University–Los
Angeles)—and four faculty who have recently gone through the application/hiring
process—Jerry Yang (University of California–San Diego), Mat Sigman (University
of Utah), Milton Brown (University of Virginia), and Cinzia Muzzi (DeAnza
College).
Fall 2005 ACS Meeting
The AEI will continue activities at the Fall 2005
ACS Meeting in Washington, DC, sponsoring a Sci-Mix poster session
at which candidates for faculty positions will present posters representing
their research and/or teaching backgrounds and interests. This provides
an informal opportunity for the candidates and for faculty from departments
seeking new faculty to meet and learn more about one another. More
information appears in the report on the first AEI Sci-Mix poster session
at the Fall 2004 ACS Meeting (1). Those who
are interested in presenting a poster—or know of a candidate who might
be—should send an email to the ACS Office
of Graduate Education for
more information. The closing date for submission of abstracts for the
AEI poster session at the Fall 2005 meeting is at the end of April 2005.
AEI
Workshops
At each of the ACS meetings there will be (free) workshops
sponsored by the ACS Office of Career Services that will include topics
such as preparing your CV, presenting your research and teaching,
and preparing for the academic interview. These workshops are
announced in C & E
News or get more information by sending an inquiry to AEI.
Literature
Cited
- J. Chem. Educ. 2004, 81, 1697
(accessed Dec 2004).
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The following NSF deadlines have been established or are anticipated.- Robert Noyce Scholarship Program
Letters of Intent (optional) February 28, 2005
Formal Proposals March 31, 2005 - Advanced Technology Education (ATE)
Preliminary Proposals April 26, 2005
Formal Proposals October 18, 2005 - National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL)
Letters of Intent (optional) March 9, 2005
Formal Proposals April 11, 2005
Official deadline dates for proposals will be specified in the new program solicitation for each program, to be published at least three months before the relevant deadline date. Other Funding Opportunities for STEM Education are available. Program solicitations are available electronically through NSF's Online Document System and through the NSF DUE site; phone: 703/292-8670; email.
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- Henry Dreyfus Teacher–Scholar Awards Program: June 30, 2005
- New Faculty Awards Program: May 12, 2005
- Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry: May 26, 2005
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Preliminary Proposals: June 2, 2005
Completed Proposals: August 25, 2005
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