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  Home > JCE Print > Journal of Chemical Education > Issues > 1998  > June  >
Table of Contents
 
Cover
 June 1998
Vol. 75 No. 6

 Chemical Education Today
From Past Issues: The More Things Change...650
In This Issue: Celebrating 75 Years!651
Editorial
Are All of the Children Below Average?655
John W. Moore
News656
Especially for High School Teachers657
J. Emory Howell
Letters to the Editor658
Announcements660
High School Report
The Periodic Table as a Fund-Raiser: A Project to Provide State-of-the-Art Equipment and Software to Oregon High School662
Caren Daniel
Reports from Other Journals
The Science Teacher: Summer Reading663
Steve Long
Challenges for Chemistry in the 21st Century: Report on the American Chemical Society Presidential Event665
Nancy S. Gettys
Highlights of the Dallas ACS Meeting669
Thomas R. Wildeman, Mark Freilich, and Paul B. Kelter
Outline of Meeting Sessions and Workshops: 15th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education671
Anna M. Wilson
Report
Award Data Searches at the NSF Web Site677
Donald J. Wink
Logic, History, and the Chemistry Textbook: I. Does Chemistry Have a Logical Structure?679
William B. Jensen
Experiential, Cooperative, and Study Abroad Education
A Cooperative Approach to Chemical Education688
Diana A. Phillips
Book and Media Reviews
Spectra Interpretation of Organic Compounds (by Erno Pretsch and Jean Thomas Clerc)695
Phyllis A. Leber
Book and Media Reviews
NMR Spectroscopy: Processing Strategies (by Peter Bigler) 696
Nancy S. Mills
Book and Media Reviews
Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry (by Geoff Rayner-Canham)697
Daniel Rabinovich
Book and Media Reviews
Multiply Bonded Main Group Metals and Metalloids (edited by Robert West and F. Gordon A. Stone)698
Paul S. Poskozim
Book and Media Reviews
Electron Transfer Reactions: Inorganic, Organometallic, and Biological Applications (edited by Stephan S. Isied) 698
Richard G. Scamehorn
Book and Media Reviews
A History of Chemistry (by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Isabelle Stengers)699
George B. Kauffman

 Viewpoints
Viewpoints
Bioorganic Chemistry: A Natural and Unnatural Science705
Ronald Breslow

 Chemistry Everyday For Everyone
Rohypnol: Profile of the "Date-Rape Drug"719
Dominick A. Labianca
Applications and Analogies
Why Do Alcoholic Beverages Have "Legs"?723
Todd P. Silverstein
Applications and Analogies
Audience-Appropriate Analogies: Collision Theory724
Kent W. Piepgrass
Applications and Analogies
Using Balls of Different Sports To Model the Variation of Atomic Sizes725
Gabriel Pinto
Why Does Helium Have 92% of the Lifting Power of Hydrogen if It Has Twice the Density?726
David W. Ball

 In The Classroom
View from My Classroom
The Convergent Evolution of a Chemistry Project: Using Laboratory Posters as a Platform for Web Page Construction727
Sally Ann Rigeman
Teaching with Technology
Structural Analysis and Modeling of Proteins on the Web: An Investigation for Biochemistry Undergraduates731
Darryl León, Sarah Uridil, and James Miranda
The Teaching of Biochemistry: An Innovative Course Sequence Based on the Logic of Chemistry734
Henry V. Jakubowski and Whyte G. Owen
Introductory Chemistry and Biology Taught as an Interdisciplinary Mini-Cluster737
Adele J. Wolfson, Mona L. Hall, and Mary M. Allen
Curricular Change Digests
Applications of Inorganic Chemistry in Biology: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Course739
Nicholas Farrell, Paul Ross, and Rosette M. Roat
NSF Highlights
The New Traditions Consortium: Shifting from a Faculty-Centered Paradigm to a Student-Centered Paradigm741
Clark R. Landis, G. Earl Peace Jr., Maureen A. Scharberg, Steven Branz, James N. Spencer, Robert W. Ricci, Susan Arena Zumdahl, and David Shaw
Process Development in the Teaching Laboratory745
Leonard C. Klein and Susanne M. Dana
Overhead Projector Demonstrations
Slide Projector Corrosion Cell747
Silvia Tejada, Estela Guevara, and Esperanza Olivares
Tested Demonstrations
Sugar Dehydration without Sulfuric Acid: No More Choking Fumes in the Classroom!748
Todd P. Silverstein and Yi Zhang
Tested Demonstrations
Photocatalytic Degradation of a Gaseous Organic Pollutant750
Jimmy C. Yu and Linda Y. L. Chan

 In the Laboratory
Demonstrating Electron Transfer and Nanotechnology: A Natural Dye-Sensitized Nanocrystalline Energy Converter752
Greg P. Smestad and Michael Gratzel
Saving Your Students' Skin. Undergraduate Experiments that Probe UV Protection by Sunscreens and Sunglasses757
James R. Abney and Bethe A. Scalettar
Working with Enzymes - Where Is Lactose Digested? An Enzyme Assay for Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratories761
Sandi R. Pope, Tonya D. Tolleson, R. Jill Williams, Russell D. Underhill, and S. Todd Deal
Concepts in Biochemistry
Detection of Non-B-DNA Secondary Structures by S1 Nuclease Digestion762
Marcel.li del Olmo, Agustin Aranda, Jose E. Perez-Ortin, and Vicente Tordera
Synthesis of a Ferrocene-Based Polymer via Ring-Opening Polymerization766
Yizeng Ni, Ian Manners, John B. Sheridan, and Richard T. Oakley
Digital Capacitance Meters in the Physical Chemistry Lab768
Roy W. Clark and Michael J. Smith
A Convenient Apparatus for Small-Scale Dyeing with Indigo769
David W. Boykin
A Microscale Synthesis of Mauve769
Rhonda L. Scaccia, David Coughlin, and David W. Ball
An Efficient Microscale Procedure for the Synthesis of Aspirin770
Sangeeta Pandita and Samta Goyal
Modified Carbon Electrodes for Microscale Electrochemistry771
Enrico Mocellin and Teresa Goscinska
The Microscale Synthesis and Electrochemistry of Low-Valent Mononuclear Complexes (h3-C3H5)Fe(CO)3 X (X = I, Br, Cl)773
Enrico Mocellin, Richard Russell, and Mauro Ravera
A Variety of Electrochemical Methods in a Coulometric Titration Experiment775
Albert Lotz

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
Representing Numbers in the Computer: A Laboratory Exercise778
Leslie Glasser
JCE Online
JCE Internet779
Jon L. Holmes
JCE Online
Animated Vibrational Models of Triatomic Molecules779
Giles Henderson and Christine Liberatore
Implementing CAL in Chemistry: Practical Issues781
Michael A. Bell, Roger P. Gladwin, and T. Adam Drury
Teaching with Technology
Teaching Computer Concepts to Undergraduate Chemists785
Ronald S. Haines
Vapor Pressure Lowering by Nonvolatile Solutes787
Gavin D. Peckham

 Research: Science and Education
Topics in Chemical Instrumentation
A Standardized Approach to Collecting and Calculating Noise Amplitude Spectra788
Norman N. Sesi, Mathew W. Borer, Timothy K. Starn, and Gary M. Hieftje
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 June 23, 1999
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