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Cover
February 2007
Vol. 84 No. 2


 Chemical Education Today
Editorial
Achieving Chemistry's Full Potential199
John W. Moore
Especially for High School Teachers
Recycling—Chemistry Can…You Can Too201
Erica K. Jacobsen
Report
Rudolph Diesel Meets the Soybean: "Greasing" the Wheels of Chemical Education202
Angela G. King and Marcus W. Wright
Report
Sorting Recycled Trash: An Activity for Earth Day 2007207
Mary E. Harris and Harold H. Harris
Chemists Celebrate Earth Day 2007: Recycling—Chemistry Can!
JCE Resources for Chemistry and Recycling212
Erica K. Jacobsen
Report
Earth Day Illustrated Haiku Contest214
Reports from Other Journals
Nature: Chemical and Biological Recycling, and Novel Micro- and Nanodevices.215
Sabine Heinhorst and Gordon C. Cannon
From Past Issues
Rubber Reclamation217
Kathryn R. Williams
Reports from Other Journals
News from Online: Renewable Resources220
Erich S. Uffelman
Ask the Historian
How and When Did Avogadro's Name become Associated with Avogadro's Number?223
William B. Jensen
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Lead225
Jay A. Young
CLIP, Chemical Laboratory Information Profile
Trilead Tetroxide226
Jay A. Young
News & Announcements227
The Information Page230
Letters
More Thoughts on the Narra Tree Fluorescence231
A. Ulises Acuña
Letters
A Dam for Cup Sinks To Keep Chemical Spills from the Drain232
Frederick C. Sauls and Janine M. Alexis
Letters
Response to "Keeping Our Cool"232
Roy W. Clark
Book and Media Reviews
A Guide to Classroom Instruction for Adjunct Faculty, Second Edition (John H. Reed)233
Jeffrey Kovac
Book and Media Reviews
Astrochemistry–From Astronomy to Astrobiology (Andrew M. Shaw)233
Richard Pagni
Advertising in This Issue234
Out of the Editor's Basket235

 Chemistry for Everyone
Use of a Concentration Game for Environmental Chemistry Class Review239
Danica A. Nowosielski
JCE Classroom Activity
Garbage Juice: Waste Management and Leachate Generation240A
Jenna R. Jambeck and Jean M. Andino
(Role) Playing Politics in an Environmental Chemistry Lecture Course241
A. Meredith Smythe and Daniel A. Higgins

 In The Classroom
Green Chemistry
Toward the Greening of Our Minds: A New Special Topics Course245
Anne E. Marteel-Parrish
Introducing New Learning Tools into a Standard Classroom: A Multi-Tool Approach to Integrating Fuel-Cell Concepts into Introductory College Chemistry 248
Matthew J. D’Amato, Kenneth W. Lux, Kenneth A. Walz, Holly Walter Kerby, and Barbara Anderegg
Plastic Solar Cells: A Multidisciplinary Field To Construct Chemical Concepts from Current Research253
Rafael Gómez and José L. Segura
Chemical Nanotechnology: A Liberal Arts Approach to a Basic Course in Emerging Interdisciplinary Science and Technology259
Lon A. Porter, Jr.
Design and Implementation of a Studio-Based General Chemistry Course265
Amy C. Gottfried, Ryan D. Sweeder, Jeffrey M. Bartolin, Jessica A. Hessler, Benjamin P. Reynolds, Ian C. Stewart, Brian P. Coppola, and Mark M. Banaszak Holl
Unlocking Knowledge We Know the Students Know271
John Reglinski
Dynamic Stereochemistry: A Simple Approach To Delineating Relative Configuration274
Dipak K. Mandal
A Review and Study on Graduate Training and Academic Hiring of Chemists277
Valerie J. Kuck, Cecilia H. Marzabadi, Janine P. Buckner, and Susan A. Nolan
A Course To Prepare Future Faculty in Chemistry: Perspectives from Former Participants285
R. Dean Gerdeman, Arlene A. Russell, and Rebecca A. Eikey

 In the Laboratory
Application of Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) Writing Assignments To Enhance Experiments with an Environmental Chemistry Focus292
Lawrence D. Margerum, Maren Gulsrud, Ronald Manlapez, Rachelle Rebong, and Austin Love
Biodiesel Synthesis and Evaluation: An Organic Chemistry Experiment296
Ehren C. Bucholtz
An Undergraduate Laboratory Experiment Using a Simple Photoassisted Fuel Cell To Remediate Simulated Wastewater299
Faiza Touati, Kevin G. McGuigan, and John Cassidy
Zinc Biosorption by Seaweed Illustrated by the Zincon Colorimetric Method and the Langmuir Isotherm302
María Mar Areco, Maria dos Santos Afonso, and Erika Valdman
JCE Featured Molecules
Molecular Model of Zincon305
William F. Coleman
Extending the Marine Microcosm Laboratory306
Hal Van Ryswyk, Eric W. Hall, Steven J. Petesch, and Alice E. Wiedeman
An Undergraduate Experiment for the Measurement of Perfluorinated Surfactants in Fish Liver by Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry310
Naomi L. Stock, Jonathan W. Martin, Yun Ye, and Scott A. Mabury
Mercury-Free Analysis of Lead in Drinking Water by Anodic Stripping Square Wave Voltammetry312
Jeremy P. Wilburn, Kyle L. Brown, and David E. Cliffel
A Pollutant Transformation Laboratory Exercise for Environmental Chemistry: The Reduction of Nitrobenzenes by Anaerobic Solutions of Humic Acid315
Frank M. Dunnivant and Mark-Cody Reynolds
The Microscale Laboratory
Isolation of Three Components from Spearmint Oil: An Exercise in Column and Thin-Layer Chromatography318
Don R. Davies and Todd M. Johnson
Cost-Effective Teacher
A Novel W-Tube for Microscale Experiments in Chemistry321
H. O. Gupta
Synthesis and Study of Silver Nanoparticles322
Sally Solomon, Mozghan Bahadory, Aravindan V. Jeyarajasingam, Susan A. Rutkowsky, Charles Boritz, and Lorraine Mulfinger
Thermochemical Analysis of Neutralization Reactions: An Introductory Discovery Experiment326
Kenneth V. Mills and Louise W. Guilmette
Characterization of High Explosives and Other Energetic Compounds by Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling329
John A. Bumpus, Anne Lewis, Corey Stotts, and Christopher J. Cramer
Spectral Characterization of a Novel Luminescent Organogel333
Yan Waguespack and Shawn R. White
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
Laser-Induced Fluorescence in Gaseous I2 Excited with a Green Laser Pointer336
Joel Tellinghuisen

 Research: Science and Education
Chemical Education Research
The Representation of People of Color in Undergraduate General Chemistry Textbooks342
Denise King and Daniel S. Domin
The State of Organic Teaching Laboratories346
Gail Horowitz
Advanced Chemistry Classroom and Laboratory
Electronic Structure Principles and Aromaticity354
P. K. Chattaraj, U. Sarkar, and D. R. Roy
Hund's Multiplicity Rule Revisited358
Frank Rioux
Random Walks on a Simple Cubic Lattice, the Multinomial Theorem, and Configurational Properties of Polymers361
Paul W. Hladky

 Information • Textbooks • Media • Resources
JCE Online
Scanning and Indexing this Journal 367
Jon L. Holmes
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