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June 2009
Vol. 86 No. 6


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Beyond Testing667
John W. Moore
Report: ACS Division of Chemical Education
Changes in Journal Financial Management668
JCE Editorial Staff
Especially for High School Teachers
Comment Communication669
Erica K. Jacobsen
Reports from Other Journals: Research Advances
Research Advances. Toward a New Generation of Paper-Thin Loudspeakers; Temperature Affects Hydrophobicity of SWNTs; "Silver Nanoparticle" Microscope May Shed New Light on Cancer, Bone Diseases670
Angela G. King
Award Address
Teaching Is More Than Lecturing and Learning Is More Than Memorizing. 2007 James Flack Norris Award674
Diane M. Bunce
Ask the Historian
Balancing Redox Equations681
William B. Jensen
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Aniline683
Jay A. Young
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Pyridine684
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements685
The Information Page688
Letters
Question of Electronic Textbooks689
Suzanne Carpenter
Letters
Banned Solvents689
Ian D. Rae
Letters
Response to Banned Solvents689
Sylvia Urban and Richard Gary Amiet
Book & Media Reviews
Feature Editor's Comments and Editor's Note Prefacing Electronic Homework Management Systems: Reviews of Popular Systems691
Hal Harris
Book & Media Reviews
ARIS (Assessment, Review, and Instruction System) (McGraw-Hill)691
Steven Rowley
Book & Media Reviews
WileyPLUS with CATALYST (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)692
Ningfeng Zhao
Book & Media Reviews
Comparison of Features, Electronic Homework Management Systems693
JCE Staff
Book & Media Reviews
Mastering Chemistry (Pearson/Prentice Hall)694
Tricia D. Shepherd
Book & Media Reviews
OWL (Online Web-Based Learning) (Cengage-Brooks/Cole)695
Jeffrey A. Evans
Book & Media Reviews
SmartWork (W. W. Norton)697
Rebecca S. Miller
Book & Media Reviews
WebAssign (WebAssign)698
Susan M. Hendrickson
Advertising in This Issue700
Out of the Editor's Basket701

 Chemistry for Everyone
JCE Classroom Activity
[#102] Investigating Self-Assembly with Macaroni704A
David A. Burgan and Lane A. Baker

 In the Classroom
Engaging Students in Early Exploration of Nanoscience Topics Using Hands-On Activities and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy705
Ping Y. Furlan

 In the Laboratory
Using the Enzymatic Growth of Nanoparticles To Create a Biosensor. An Undergraduate Quantitative Analysis Experiment712
James Bai, Kaleyhia Flowers, Salil Benegal, Milagros Calizo, Vrudhdhi Patel, and Sandra Whaley Bishnoi
Surface-Enhanced Fluorescence on Silver Fractal-Like Structures. An Experiment for Analytical or Physical Chemistry715
Abby Roth, Tanya Shtoyko, Brian K. Taylor, Arika Pravitasari, Zygmunt Gryczynski, Evgenia G. Matveeva, Ignacy Gryczynski, and I-Fen Chang
Structural Analysis of Nanofilms Using FTIR Spectroscopy. An Introduction to the Spectroscopic Analysis of Nanostructures for Undergraduate Students719
Chad L. Leverette, Claire Wills, M. Andrew Perkins, and Stephanie A. Jacobs
The Use of Cyclic Voltammetry To Probe the Passivation of Electrode Surfaces by Well-Ordered Self-Assembly and Langmuir–Blodgett Films. An Advanced Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment in Surface Science and Nanomaterials Chemistry723
Pilar Cea, María C. López, Santiago Martín, Ana Villares, Gorka Pera, and Ignacio Giner
A Multiweek, Problem-Based Laboratory Project Using Phytoremediation To Remove Copper from Soil. General Chemistry Labs for Teaching Thermodynamics and Equilibrium726
Stephen G. Cessna, Tara L. S. Kishbaugh, Douglas Graber Neufeld, and Gretchen A. Cessna
JCE Concept Connections
JCE Digging In729
Bernadette A. Caldwell
Green Chemistry
Comparing the Traditional with the Modern: A Greener, Solvent-Free Dihydropyrimidone Synthesis730
Evangelos Aktoudianakis, Elton Chan, Amanda R. Edward, Isabel Jarosz, Vicki Lee, Leo Mui, Sonya S. Thatipamala, and Andrew P. Dicks
Exercise in Quality Assurance: A Laboratory Exercise733
Jens E. T. Andersen

 Research: Science and Education
Using the First Exam for Student Placement in Beginning Chemistry Courses738
Pamela Mills, William Sweeney, and Sarah M. Bonner
Chemical Education Research
Attitude Counts: Self-Concept and Success in General Chemistry744
Scott E. Lewis, Janet L. Shaw, Judith O. Heitz, and Gail H. Webster

 On the Web
A Graduate-Level Online Module for Teaching Remote Sensing of Tropospheric NO2 from Space750
A. Ladstätter-Weißenmayer, A. Richter, J. P. Burrows, M. Kanakidou, R. J. Law, T. Wagner, and Peter Borrell
JCE TSTS: Today's Science for Tomorrow's Scientists
Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Web-Based Tool, Today's Science for Tomorrow's Scientists757
Caroline Pharr
JCE Data-Driven Exercises
The JCE Data-Driven Exercises Digital Collection763
W. Tandy Grubbs
JCE Data-Driven Exercises
Determination of the Azeotropic Composition for Cyclohexane and Ethanol Using Gas Chromatographic Data764
Beatriz H. Cardelino
JCE Data-Driven Exercises
Determination of Partial Molar Volumes in Aqueous Solutions of Ionic Compounds764
Arthur Ferguson
JCE Data-Driven Exercises
Osmotic Pressure and Polymer Molecular Weight Determination764
W. Tandy Grubbs
JCE Data-Driven Exercises
Strain Energy in Organic Compounds: Bomb Calorimetry764
Andrew J. Meyer, Jeremy M. Brunette, and Franklin Chen
JCE Data-Driven Exercises
Understanding the Flammability of Organic Compounds765
Peter M. Murphy
JCE VIPEr: An Inorganic Teaching and Learning Community
JCE VIPEr: An Inorganic Teaching and Learning Community766
Ethan Benatan, Jezmynne Dene, Hilary J. Eppley, Margret J. Geselbracht, Elizabeth R. Jamieson, Adam R. Johnson, Barbara A. Reisner, Joanne L. Stewart, Lori A. Watson, and B. Scott Williams
JCE Featured Molecules
Molecular Models from a Greener, Solvent-Free Synthesis. Biginelli Product, Ethyl Acetoacetate, Monastrol, and Nifedipine768
William F. Coleman
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