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November 2003
Vol. 80 No. 11

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Chemical Education Today

Editorial
Bargain Hunting		1231
	John W. Moore

Especially for High School Teachers
It's Not the Way I Learned!		1233
	Diana S. Mason

Award Address
Using the Arts To Make Chemistry Accessible to Everybody. 2002 James Flack Norris Award, sponsored by ACS Northeast Section		1234
	Zafra M. Lerman

NSF Highlights
A Placement Examination and Mathematics Tutorial for General Chemistry		1244
	Norbert J. Pienta

Ask the Historian
The Origin of Stoichiometry Problems		1248
	William B. Jensen

Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate		1250
	Jay A. Young

Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Sodium Dichromate Dihydrate		1251
	Jay A. Young

The Information Page		1252

News & Announcements		1253

Letters
Ant Velocity Hypotheses		1257
	Todd P. Silverstein

Letters
Encouraging Science Careers—Student Inspired Research		1257
	Jane Slezak

Letters
Reactions (→) vs Equations (=)		1258
	S. R. Logan

Letters
Correlation of Boiling Point with Molecular Surface Area		1258
	Ronald L. Rich

Book and Media Reviews
The Art of Writing Reasonable Organic Reaction Mechanisms, 2nd Edition (Robert B. Grossman)		1259
	R. W. Holman

Book and Media Reviews
The Pilot Plant Real Book: A Unique Handbook for the Chemical Process Industry (Francis X. McConville)		1260
	Mike Wilson

Book and Media Reviews
Mathematics for Chemistry and Physics (George Turrell)		1261
	Andrew J. Pounds

Advertising in This Issue		1262

Out of the Editor's Basket		1263


Chemistry for Everyone

E-Mail Molecules—Individualizing the Large Lecture Class		1267
	Carl C. Wamser


In The Classroom

Playing-Card Equilibrium		1271
	Robert M. Hanson

Products of Chemistry
Protein Design Using Unnatural Amino Acids		1275
	Basar Bilgiçer and Krishna Kumar


In the Laboratory

Investigation of Model Cell Membranes with Raman Spectroscopy: A Biochemistry Laboratory Experiment		1282
	Norman C. Craig, William H. Fuchsman, and Nanette N. Lacuesta

JCE Classroom Activity
Pondering Packing Peanut Polymers		1288A
	Perry A. Cook, Sue Hall, and Jill Donahue

Allele-Specific Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based Genotyping of a Normal Variation in Human Color Vision		1289
	Beth Wilson, Ira M. Lubin, and Kathryn B. Grant

Analysis of DAPI and SYBR Green I as Alternatives to Ethidium Bromide for Nucleic Acid Staining in Agarose Gel Electrophoresis		1292
	Kevin M. Bourzac, Lori J. LaVine, and Margaret S. Rice

Photoinduced Oxidative DNA Damage Revealed by an Agarose Gel Nicking Assay: A Biophysical Chemistry Laboratory Experiment		1297
	Vladimir Shafirovich, Carolyn Singh, and Nicholas E. Geacintov

Concepts in Biochemistry
Some Like It Cold: A Computer-Based Laboratory Introduction to Sequence and Tertiary Structure Comparison of Cold-Adapted Lactate Dehydrogenases Using Bioinformatics Tools		1300
	M. Sue Lowery and Leigh A. Plesniak

Topics in Chemical Instrumentation
Palm-Based Data Acquisition Solutions for the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory		1303
	Susan Hudgins, Yu Qin, Eric Bakker, and Curtis Shannon

Analytical Chemistry Labs with Kits and CD-Based Instructions as Teaching Aids for Distance Learning		1308
	Dushyanthi Hoole and M. Sithambaresan

Comparing the Titrations of Mixed-Acid Solutions Using Dropwise and Constant-Flow Techniques		1311
	Paul Charlesworth, Matthew J. Seguin, and David J. Chesney

Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production by Direct Sunlight: A Laboratory Experiment		1314
	Atif Koca and Musa Sahin

An Experimental Determination of the Second Radiation Constant		1316
	Paul Coppens

The Microscale Laboratory
A Series of Small-Scale, Discovery-Based Organic Laboratory Experiments Illustrating the Concepts of Addition, Substitution, and Rearrangement		1319
	Judith S. Moroz, Janice L. Pellino, and Kurt W. Field


Research: Science and Education

Using Hydrocarbon Acidities To Demonstrate Principles of Organic Structure and Bonding		1322
	Andrew P. Dicks

Chemical Education Research
Students' Understanding of Solution Chemistry Concepts		1328
	Tacettin Pinarbasi and Nurtaç Canpolat

Chemical Education Research
Leveraging Technology for Chemical Sciences Education: An Early Assessment of WebCT Usage in First-Year Chemistry Courses		1333
	Paul Charlesworth and Chelley Vician

Chemical Education Research
Effects of Web-Based Multimedia Homework with Immediate Rich Feedback on Student Learning in General Chemistry		1338
	Renée S. Cole and John B. Todd


Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources

Teaching with Technology
A Web-Based Interactive Homework Quiz and Tutorial Package To Motivate Undergraduate Chemistry Students and Improve Learning		1344
	Ben Freasier, Grant Collins, and Paula Newitt

Solubility Rules: Three Suggestions for Improved Understanding		1348
	Bob Blake

JCE WebWare
Featured Molecules: Amylose and Polystyrene		1350
	William F. Coleman

JCE WebWare
Additions to Our Open Peer-Reviewed and Open Collections		1351
	William F. Coleman and Edward W. Fedosky

JCE WebWare
An Aquatic Chemistry Spreadsheet for General Chemistry Classes		1351
	Chulsung Kim

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