News from Journal House

Journal of Chemical Education on CD-ROM, 2003

The 2003 edition of Journal of Chemical Education on CD-ROM has been released by JCE Software and shipped to those who have placed orders. For more information about JCE on CD 2003, see this Web site or see the abstract as it appeared in the February 2004 issue of JCE.

• JCE CD 2003 contains a full year of JCE issues. It includes the full text, graphics, tables, and abstracts for every article published in 2003, as well as the supplemental materials and annual index, formatted to retain their original printed appearance. Articles are easy to find and view, so that with a few mouse clicks you can locate, read, and print an article from your computer. Full-text searching for any author, title, word, or phrase enables you to find what you are looking for, quickly.
  
  To purchase this CD-ROM or for information about its use by a library or Wide Area Network (WAN) including WWW, contact JCE Software.

Biographical Snapshots

A popular JCE Online column is Biographical Snapshots of Famous Women and Minority Chemists. Six snapshot bios have just been added to the collection:

• Gladys Ludwina Anderson Emerson
• Joyce Jacobson Kaufman
• Norbert Rillieux
• Mary Lura Sherrill
• Florence Emeline Wall
• Isiah M. Warner

bringing the total number of biographies to 60. The brief biographies in this feature aim to inspire and enlighten with personal information about chemists who have made important contributions to chemistry and society.

Biographical “snap shots” tell about a person’s chemical work, gender, ethnicity, and cultural background; there are links to WWW sites for further exploration. The information in this column is available to incorporate into your teaching and share with your students.

JCE Author Workshop, June 2004

Do you have great ideas you’d like to submit to JCE? Have you always hoped to share your ideas with colleagues near and far? Need help getting those ideas into shape?

Then the JCE Author Workshop is for you! Plans are for a week-long workshop June 14-18, 2004, for teachers interested in submitting manuscripts to JCE. Participants will visit Journal House on the UW-Madison campus. They will see how a manuscript progresses from submission to review to publication and they will also develop their own ideas for submission and review, with guidance from their peers and Journal staff.

CEUs will be available. Participants will need to pay for travel, room, and board; no stipend will be available. Space is limited and preference will be given to high school teachers. For a workshop brochure and application, contact Erica Jacobsen at or visit this Web site. The deadline for applications is May 2, 2004.

National Chemistry Week 2004:
Health & Wellness

National Chemistry Week (NCW) celebrations will take place October 17-25, 2004 around the theme of Health & Wellness—which means that JCE’s October issue will take this theme. Since the issue will be mailed in early September, it will be available in plenty of time for incorporation of materials into your NCW plans. The JCE editorial staff has already begun assembling materials for NCW. We plan to feature Health & Wellness with another popular, illustrated resource paper, a topical Classroom Activity, collected articles that relate to the theme, and specially written brief articles illustrated in color—all related to NCW. Check future JCE issues for updates and details.

JCE Buyers Guide

The print edition of the JCE Buyers Guide has a new schedule. It will appear once each year—in April—which means that a copy will have been sent with this issue of JCE. (Previously, the Buyers Guide appeared twice a year, in February and September.) The Buyers Guide is the most comprehensive listing of its kind and includes interfaced experiments, laboratory manuals, laboratory notebooks, models, reference books, and software, in addition to books. Access to the information in the Buyers Guide is always available on JCE Online. The online version has the same information as in print plus more—it is searchable, linked to textbook reviews and publisher’s sites, and is current.

Courses, Seminars, Meetings,
Opportunities

Flinn Workshops

Flinn Scientific Foundation has organized six chemistry workshops for summer 2004. These workshops are for high school science teachers who teach chemistry concepts and want to practice and learn new chemical demonstrations and laboratory activities. New and experienced teachers will benefit from attending. The workshop presenters are teams of three nationally renowned high school chemistry teachers. Three teams are going to the following six sites:

• St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN:
  June 21-25
• Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, IL: June 21-25
• The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS: July 12-16
• Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI:
  July 12-16
• University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO:
  July 26-30
• Modesto Junior College, Modesto CA: August 2-6

The workshops will run Monday through Friday (8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. M-Th; 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. F). The cost for the workshop is $290 per participant, which includes all workshop materials, a workshop manual as well as a continental breakfast, lunch, and afternoon beverage every day. On-campus housing and continuing education credit is available for every workshop. Travel, housing, and education credit expenses are the responsibility of the participant.

For more information on the workshops, to be put on the mailing list, or to download a form to sign up for a workshop visit the Web site (accessed Feb 2004). Questions may be directed to Jan Foulkes by phone at 1-800/452-1261.

Summer NCSI Workshops

During summer 2004 the National Computational Science Institute (NCSI) will hold three workshops of interest to those who teach chemistry to undergraduates.

• Introduction to Computational Chemistry
  Appalachian State University: June 27-July 3
  
  This workshop will cover ways that computers can enhance and expand the educational experience of chemistry undergraduates. There will be discussions and hands-on laboratory exercises on visualization, simulation, molecular modeling, and mathematical software. Participants are expected to develop and present a case study suitable for use in classroom lecture, laboratory, Web study, or individual study.
  
  
• Introduction to Molecular Modeling
  Wittenberg University: July 11-1
  
  This double workshop will focus on the methods, applications, and educational uses of molecular modeling and related computational techniques suitable for the undergraduate chemistry curriculum. Discussion of computational chemistry topics will be followed by hands-on exercises. Participants are expected to develop and present a case study suitable for use in classroom lecture, laboratory, Web study, or individual study.
  
  
• Advanced Computational Chemistry Education
  San Jose State University: July 25-31.
  
  This workshop is an in-depth application of the concepts covered in an introductory workshop to prepare educational materials ready to be used in the undergraduate chemistry curriculum. Participants are expected to develop and present one or more case studies suitable for use in classroom lecture, laboratory, Web study, or individual study. Participants are expected to have previously attended one of the introductory NCSI/CCCE workshops or to have experience in the educational applications of computational chemistry.

Registration begins February 1, 2004. There is no charge for participating; room and board is provided for participants. For further information and registration, visit the Web site (accessed Feb 2004) or contact Clyde Metz.

Free NSF-Sponsored Workshops

The NSF-sponsored Center for Workshops in the Chemical Sciences (CWCS) announces its 2004 program. These week-long workshops are designed for faculty and staff with instructional responsibilities at the undergraduate level at universities, colleges, and community colleges. Individuals such as advanced graduate students and post-docs who plan to embark on a career in college teaching 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. All workshops involve extensive hands-on activities.

Registration, housing, and a per diem for food are provided at no cost to participants; some travel support may be available. The workshops have a long history of engaging faculty in new areas and providing support for enhancing the curriculum at a variety of institutions. Further information about CWCS, descriptions of individual workshops, and an application are available at this Web site (accessed Feb 2004).

2004 Workshops

• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  Washington State University: May 23-28
• Chemistry of Art
  Millersville University: June 6-11
• Environmental Chemistry
  Georgia State University: June 13-18
• Molecular Modeling
  University of California, Riverside: June 13-18
• Forensic Chemistry
  Williams College: June 20-25
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
  University of Georgia: June 20-25
• Crystallography for Chemists
  California State University, Fullerton: June 26-
  July 1
• Molecular Genetics and Protein Structure and Function
  University of Hawaii, Hilo: July 11-16
• Chemical Education and Laboratory Learning
  University of Illinois at Chicago: July 11-16
• Materials Science and Nanotechnology for Chemists
  Beloit College: July 25-30
• Computational and Theoretical Chemistry
  Georgia Institute of Technology: May 30-June 4
• Polymer Chemistry
  Georgia Institute of Technology: June 20-25
• Combinational and Solid Phase Synthesis
  Wright State University: August 22-27

Conference on Chemistry and the Environment

The 9th Conference on Chemistry and the Environment, organized by the division of Chemistry and the Environment of the Federation of European Chemical Societies, will be held August 29-September 1, 2004 in Bordeaux, France. A specific session will be dedicated to Education in Environmental Chemistry, to which contributions are welcome. Other sessions on the program include Sampling and Analytical Strategies; Bioaccumulation and Trophic Transfers; Biotic and Abiotic Transformations; Pollution, Prevention, and Remediation/Green Chemistry; Environmental Monitoring and Modeling. Plenary lectures in analysis, biogeochemical cycles, and modeling of chemicals into the environment will also be presented.

For more information contact Philippe Garrigues, the conference chair, by email pgarrigu@u-bordeaux1.fr, or see this Web site (accessed Feb 2004).