News from Journal House
Coming in June...Report from ACS Meeting
In this issue we have ample coverage of the
coming Spring ACS Meeting. Those of you attending will have
found lots of pointers to symposia of interest. However we
have good news for the majority of our readers, those who
will not be attending: our June issue will have a report on
the two Presidential Plenary Sessions, "Beyond the
Technology of Biotechnology--Government Regulation and
Consumer Acceptance" and "Chemistry in the 21st Century: The
partnership Between Education, Industry, the Media, and
Science Policy--The Four-Legged Stool". Regular
Journal readers will recall the report on Color Chemistry from the
Spring 1999 ACS Meeting (June 1999, p 737) and that on
Challenges for Chemistry in the 21st Century from the
Spring 1998 ACS Meeting (June 1998, p 665). Nancy Gettys
will again be our reporter.
In addition, photo coverage of a number of
meeting events is scheduled for the June issue--from the session
"Doing Science with Chemists of the Future" for students
in grades 4 through 6 to the several award addresses listed
on pages 283-288.
Back Issues for JCE Online
Many subscribers have sent us messages telling us
how wonderful it is to search and use Journal
issues on JCE Online--and then asking when we will have available
issues earlier than 1995.
The answer is, we are working on it! There is a
project underway to scan past issues. A few years have been
scanned, and, equally important, are being catalogued in such a
way that they can be accessed. However, this is not an
instant process. We will put blocks of issues online when they
are ready, and we will announce this in News from Journal
House and other places when we do so. The Journal
has so much good information in previous issues that we regard this as
a very important effort.
Readers who need to see something from an early
issue before it gets online can contact us. For a modest fee to
cover costs we will make photocopies to either mail or fax to you.
Awards Announced
Research Corporation Fall 1999 Awards in Chemistry
Research Corporation has announced 81 awards,
totaling $2,762,318, to fund research in chemistry, physics,
and astronomy proposed by college and university
investigators. Of these awards, 55 went to faculty in departments of
chemistry. Chemists received 20 of 30 Cottrell College
Science Awards, 32 of 46 Research Innovation Awards, and 3 of
4 Research Opportunity Awards. A list of grantees appears
as supplemental material for this article on JCE Online,
http://JChemEd.chem.wisc.edu/Journal/Issues/2000/Mar
/abs307.html. For further information about Research
Corporation and complete guidelines for all awards programs,
see the Research Corporation Web site at http://www.rescorp.org.
NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Program Awards, FY1999
The Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) of
the National Science Foundation announces awards in
chemistry made under the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory
Improvement (CCLI) Program for FY1999. These awards
represent the first round of competition for this new
program. Awards were made in three areas.
The Educational Materials Development
(CCLI-EMD) track represents projects that are to develop innovative
materials that incorporate effective educational practices to
improve student learning in chemistry at the
undergraduate level. The materials are expected to be appropriate for
national dissemination and implementation. Although
proposals are allowed that might request funds up to $75,000
in order to develop an initial test or proof-of-concept for
an idea, no proof-of-concept proposals were funded in
chemistry in FY1999. Rather, five awards were made for full
development projects and are listed below. A total of 36
proposals in chemistry were submitted to this track.
Awards in the Adaptation and Implementation
(CCLI-A&I) track represent projects that are expected to result
in improved undergraduate chemistry education at
institutions through adaptation and implementation of exemplary
materials, laboratory experiences, and educational practices in
such a way that further curricular change will be catalyzed at
the institution. In chemistry, the large majority of the
CCLI-A&I proposals and awards were instrument-based
projects; of the 139 chemistry proposals, 64 awards were made. A
list of CCLI-A&I grantees, their institutions, the titles of
their proposals and the award amounts appears as
supplemental material for this article on JCE Online,
http://JChemEd.chem.wisc.edu/Journal/Issues/2000/Mar/abs307.html.
Finally, awards were made in the Systemic Changes
in the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum-Adapt and
Adopt (CCLI-AA) emphasis. These projects are adapting and
adopting materials and methods that come from the five
major projects funded through NSF's Systemic Chemistry
Initiative. Four awards, which are listed below, were made from
among 12 proposals. Starting with the FY2000
competition, proposals for such projects should be submitted through
the regular CCLI-A&I track.
Awards for the FY2000 round of the CCLI
competition (from proposals submitted to the June 7, 1999,
deadline) are in the process of being completed. The next
deadline for those interested in submitting proposals is June
5, 2000. Further information about the CCLI program is
available through the existing Program Announcement (NSF
99-53). A new CCLI Program Announcement, effective for
the June 5, 2000, deadline, will be issued early in 2000.
Information about CCLI or other programs and activities
supported by DUE can be found on the DUE web site (
http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/DUE/start.htm), by phoning DUE at 703/306-1666,
or by sending an email message
to undergrad@nsf.gov.
Current information about
projects funded by DUE is available on the Project Information
Resource System (PIRS) at http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/PIRStart/.
Mark Claire, Science Education Analyst in DUE,
provided assistance in gathering the data found in this report.
CCLI Awards in Chemistry Educational Materials Development (EMD) Track
- LUCID-A New Model for Computer-Assisted
Instruction in Chemistry, David Hanson, SUNY Stony
Brook; DUE-9950612; $330,702
- A Flexible Networked Laboratory Simulation for
Use in Introductory Chemistry Courses, David
Yaron, Carnegie Mellon University; DUE-9950673; $420,000
- Physical Chemistry On-line, Establishment of
Multi-Institutional Learning Environment for Physical
Chemistry Students, Theresa Zielinski, Monmouth
College; DUE-9950809; $307,418
- Virtual Mass Spectrometry Laboratory,
Joseph Grabowski, University of Pittsburgh;
DUE-9950867; $425,899
- An Organic Chemistry Text for Freshmen,
I. David Reingold, Juniata College; DUE-9972297; $142,725
CCLI Awards in Chemistry Adaptation and Adoption (CCLI-AA) Track
- Bringing Systemic Change to Community
College Chemistry, Carolyn Collins, Community College
of South Nevada; DUE-9950320; $227,621
- Adaption and Adoption of Workshop Chemistry,
Jerry Sarquis, Miami University of Ohio;
DUE-9950575; $272,162
- Implementation of a Writing-Intensive
Chemistry Laboratory Curriculum, Michael Mosher, University
of Nebraska-Kearney; DUE-9950674; $128,734
- Improving Student Learning in Introductory
Chemistry: Building on the New Traditions
Project, Laurence Boucher, Towson University; DUE-9950952; $99,993
Award Deadlines
Analytical Chemistry Starter Grant
The Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh
will award one grant of $20,000 to an assistant professor in
the field of analytical chemistry. The purpose of the grant is
to encourage high-quality, innovative research by a new
analytical chemistry professor and to promote the training
and development of graduate students in the field. Assistant
professors who have accepted an appointment in a U.S.
college or university since December 31, 1996 are eligible.
Application forms available from James Chadwick, Chairman,
Starter Grant Committee, Society for Analytical Chemists of
Pittsburgh, 300 Penn Center Boulevard, Suite 332,
Pittsburgh, PA 15235; phone: 1-800/825-3221, ext. 208; fax:
412/825-3224. Completed applications must be received by
February 29, 2000.
Courses, Seminars, Meetings, Opportunities
Student-Centered Active Learning: Faculty Workshops
NSF has recently announced an award of
additional funding to promote further dissemination of the
teaching and learning innovations developed by the five grants in
the Systemic Changes in the Undergraduate Chemistry
Curriculum Initiative projects that were awarded in 1994-95.
Faculty who choose to attend a two-day workshop will
participate in a general seminar to gain broad exposure to the
products available through each project followed by
participation in one of the specific workshops as listed below. The
workshops will engage attendees in in-depth, hands-on
activities with faculty from one of the projects, providing direct
experience with an active-participation, student-centered
pedagogy and sharing ideas and experiences with other
instructors in a collaborative setting.
Specific topics of the concurrent workshops and
the projects whose work they are based on are:
- Active, Student-Centered Teaching and Learning
by Adapting Real-World Based Modules to your
Classroom (ChemLinks./Modular Chemistry Consortium)
- Active Learning as a Supplement to Lectures and
Guided Inquiry Laboratory Experiments (New Traditions)
- Server-Based Learning Units and Calibrated Peer
Review of Writing (Molecular Science)
- Peer-Led Team Learning in Problem Solving
Workshops (Workshop Chemistry)
The five projects, each of which involves a
consortium of other institutions, and their respective lead institutions
are the ChemLinks Coalition (Beloit College, http://chemlinks.beloit.edu/),
the Modular Chemistry Consortium
(University of California at Berkeley, http://mc2.cchem.berkeley.edu/
), the Molecular Science Project (UCLA, http://server2.nslc.ucla.edu
/ms/), the New Traditions Project (University of
Wisconsin-Madison, http://newtraditions.chem.wisc.edu/
), and the Workshop Project (City College of New York, http://www.sci.
ccny.cuny.edu/~chemwksp/). Each of the supported projects
was designed to make fundamental changes in chemistry
instruction, including better integration with curricula in related
disciplines such as biology, physics, geology, materials
science, engineering, computer science, and mathematics.
The changes are expected to affect all levels of undergraduate
instruction.
The workshops are free but participants will be
expected to pay their own travel expenses. For information about
the workshop schedule, attending a workshop, or
volunteering to host a workshop contact G. Earl Peace, Jr.,
Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101
University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706-1396; phone:
608/262-8647; fax: 608/265-8094; email:
gpeacejr@facstaff.wisc.edu.
Workshop: Research Sites for Educators in Chemistry
A Workshop on Program Objectives, Challenges,
and Proposal Preparation is the title of a workshop addressing
the objectives, challenges, and opportunities involved in the
National Science Foundation Research Sites for Educators
in Chemistry (RSEC) program that is planned for the
ACS meeting in San Francisco on March 25, 2000. The aims
of the Workshop (sponsored by the NSF and the Division
of Chemical Education) will be to inform the academic
research community of the needs and challenges confronting
chemical researchers at primarily undergraduate institutions
(PUIs), the prospective benefits to the broader chemical
community (graduate schools and industrial employers) that may
accrue from enhanced research activity at PUIs, and the
opportunities for achieving such enhancement through the RSEC
Program. It is expected that the sharing of ideas will both
enhance the existing RSEC sites and stimulate/facilitate
proposals for new ones with both broader geographic and
disciplinary representation. Both prospective RSEC Fellows
and prospective RSEC PIs are encouraged and welcome to
attend. For further information contact Kelsey D. Cook,
Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
TN 37996-1600; phone: 865-974-8019; fax:
865/974-3454; email: kcook@utk.edu.
Searching Scientific Literature: PubScience
The U. S. Department of Energy, Office of
Scientific and Technical Information, announces PubScience,
which enables free searching of more than 1,000 peer-reviewed
scientific and technical journals in the physical sciences
and other energy-related disciplines. The site location is
http://www.osti.gov/pubsci.
Proposal Deadlines
National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate
Education (DUE)
For further information about NSF DUE programs consult the
DUE Web site,
http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/DUE/start.htm.
To contact the DUE Information Center, phone: 703/306-1666;
email: undergrad@nsf.gov.
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
- Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program:
November 15, 2000
- Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program:
June 30, 2000
- New Faculty Awards Program: May 15, 2000
- Faculty Start-up Grants for Undergraduate Institutions: May 15, 2000
- Scholar/Fellow Program for Undergraduate Institutions: June 30, 2000
- Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences:
Preliminary Proposals: June 15, 2000
Complete Proposals: September 1, 2000
- Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry: March 1, 2000
- Senior Scientist Mentor: September 1, 2000
Further information may be obtained from The Camille and
Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., 555 Madison Avenue, Suite 1305,
New York, NY 10022; phone: 212/753-1760;
email: admin@dreyfus.org;
WWW:http://www.dreyfus.org/
Research Corporation
- Cottrell College Science Awards: May 15 and November 15
- Cottrell Scholars: First regular business day in September
- Research Opportunity Awards: May 1 and October 1
- Research Innovation Awards: May 1
Further information may be obtained from Research
Corporation, 101 North Wilmot Road, Suite 250, Tucson, AZ
85711-3332; phone: 520/571-1111; fax: 520/571-1119; email:
awards@rescorp.org;
WWW:http://www.rescorp.org
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