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News from Journal House
Save Those Calendars
If you were a subscriber in 1998 and were the
fortunate recipient of one of our 1999 calendars, save it! Those
calendars have lots of information that will last beyond
December 1999.
Obviously there is the visual information, twelve
glorious groups of images showing chemistry in action.
Subscribers have told us how they and their students have used
the images to enliven the walls of their classrooms, study
rooms, and labs. You may want to consider doing something
similar - or passing the calendar along to someone else who
might use it in this way.
There are the treasures on the last two pages, the
pages titled About the Graphics. Here you will find a wealth
of information. For each month there is Visual
Information. Since most of the images in the calendar have been
taken from video material published by JCE
Software on CD-ROMs, we list sources of that visual material. Showing
a demo instead of performing it can be particularly useful
for demos that are difficult, expensive, or unsafe to do in
your classroom. The precipitation of mercury(II) iodide is
such an example.
Then there is the For More Information section
where you will find references to information published in the
Journal that is related to the substances and processes
pictured. The action of nitric acid upon copper is an example of a
demonstration that is frequently performed. Using the JCE
1999 calendar it is easy to find out more about the chemistry
involved.
Results, ACS Division of Chemical Education
Election of Officers
Chair Elect (Chair in 2001)
Conrad Stanitski, Department of Chemistry, University of Central Arkansas, Conway,
AR 72035; conrads@mail.uca.edu.
Treasurer (2000-2002)
Anna Wilson, Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN47907;
anna-wilson@purdue.edu.
Councilor (2000-2002)
Carol White, Athens Area Technical Institute, Athens, GA30601-1500;
white@aati.edu.
Alternate Councilor (2000-2002)
Marcy Towns, Department of Chemistry, Ball State University, Muncie, IN47306-0445;
00mhtowns@bsu.edu.
Information about membership in the Division
of Chemical Education may be obtained from the
Secretary, whose address is listed in the Information Page on page 1626.
Awards Announced
ACS Award Announcement: ACS Public Service Award
- Neal F. Lane, Assistant to the President for
Science and Technology and Director of the Office
of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office
of the President, Washington, DC
NSF Award Announcement: Presidential Award for Excellence in Science,
Mathematics & Engineering Mentoring
The Presidential Award for Excellence in Science,
Mathematics & Engineering Mentoring honors those who
have guided to careers in scientific, engineering, and other
technical fields a significant number of students over a
sustained period of time, especially minorities, women, and people
with disabilities. Among the ten individuals who have won
this year's award, four have connections to chemistry.
- Ajay K. Bose, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey
- George Castro, San Jose State University, San Jose, California
- Ram S. Lamba, University of Puerto Rico, Cayey, Cayey, Puerto Rico
- Zafra M. Lerman, Institute for Science Education & Science
Communication, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
Awards Deadlines
Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Program
The year 2000 Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision Awards
will select eight teams from all over the U.S. and Canada as
national winners (four first-place and four second-place teams).
This year's new program asks students to design
Web pages that illustrate their ideas for the future.
Twenty-four regional winning teams will then be asked to create their
own Web site based on their design idea. The Web sites of
the winning eight finalist teams will be showcased on the
official ExploraVision home page, and computer hardware
and software will be awarded to the winning schools. Each
first-place team member will receive a $10,000 U.S. savings
bond; each second-place winner will receive a $5,000 U.S.
savings bond. Canadian winners will receive comparable
savings bonds.
The deadline to submit entries is February 2, 2000.
For more information or an application, contact NSTA by
phone: 1-800/EXPLOR-9 or email:
exploravision@nsta.org.
Ford Foundation Fellowships
Approximately 25 Postdoctoral Fellowships for
Minorities will be awarded in a nationwide competition
sponsored by the Ford Foundation and administered by the
National Research Council of the National Academies. Applicants must
be United States citizens or nationals who are members
of one of the following ethnic minority groups: Native
American Indian, Alaskan Native (Eskimo or Aleut),
Black/African American, Mexican American/Chicana/Chicano,
Native Pacific Islander (Polynesian or Micronesian), Puerto Rican.
Awards will be made for study in research-based
doctoral programs in the life sciences, physical sciences,
mathematics, engineering sciences, behavioral and social
sciences, education, and the humanities. Applicants must have
completed a Ph.D. or Sc.D. degree no earlier than January
7, 1993, and no later than March 1, 2000. Applicants are
expected to be engaged in or planning a career in teaching
and research at the college or university level. The
application deadline is January 7, 2000. For further information
and applications contact: Fellowship Office, National
Research Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington,
DC 20418; phone: 202/334-3872; fax: 202/334-3419;
email: infofell@nas.edu;
WWW: http://national-academies.org/osep/fo.
Applications may be downloaded from the Web site or
filled out online.
Courses, Seminars, Meetings, Opportunities
Proposal and Workshop Deadlines Approaching, 16th BCCE
The brochure with the Call for Papers for the 16th
Biennial Conference on Chemical Education has been
mailed to all members of the ACS Division of Chemical
Education. (The conference will be held July 30 through August 3,
2000, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.)
The contents of this brochure may also be found on the
BCCE Web site at
http://www.umich.edu/~bcce.
The deadline for submitting a proposal for a
symposium or a workshop is December 3, 1999. Abstracts for all
papers, posters, demonstrations, and workshops are due on
February 4, 2000. We encourage all participants to examine
the symposia and workshops that have already been
proposed. Ideas for additional papers should be submitted to the
organizers of the symposia directly. Papers that do not fit
into any of the symposia already on the Web should be sent
to the 16th BCCE, preferably by using the application
process on the Web or by communicating with the program
chair, Brian Coppola, at:
bcoppola@umich.edu or 734/764-7329.
Opportunity to Field-Test the New ACS
General Chemistry Course
The ACS GenChem project materials have been
under development for about four years and are ready to be
field-tested during academic year 2000-2001. We now seek
chemistry faculty from two-year colleges, four-year colleges,
and universities who would like to take part in the field test
and who can participate during the entire academic year. The
underlying philosophy of the project and a few specific
examples were presented in an evening workshop at the 15th
BCCE in Waterloo and at the spring 1999 ACS Meeting in
Anaheim (Abstract #812). Presentations to be made at the Spring
2000 ACS Meeting in San Francisco will provide further
information.
Faculty interested in taking part in this field test
need to inform us of their interest before February 1, 2000.
In return, you will receive information about field-testing
the project and an application for participation, which will
be due on April 15, 2000. Participants must be available for
and commit to attending a pre-field-test workshop at
Clemson University from July 15 through 19, 2000. For the
workshop, we can accept a maximum of two persons from
the same institution, both of whom must be teaching
general chemistry during academic year 2000-2001. If you and/or
a colleague are interested in this opportunity, please
contact both Jerry Bell and Lucy Eubanks before February 1,
2000: j_bell@acs.org and
elucy@clemson.edu.
Science Across the World
Science Across the World, an organization based in
the United Kingdom, aims to bring together - through
science - chemistry teachers and students from around the world.
High school science teachers are invited to participate in this
global project based on the theme, Chemistry in Our Lives.
Student activities center on gathering information about
useful chemicals and sharing results with another school. The
project entails three to five hours of classroom and homework time.
To register to participate or to get more information,
go to http://www.bp.com/saw, the
project Web site; questions
may also be directed to saw@asehq.org.uk.
The coordinator for
the United States and Canada is Arnold Guttman, a
chemistry teacher at Waukegan High School, Waukegan,
IL; chemteacher@mailcity.com.
Educational Modules Based on Genesis Space Mission
In January 2001, NASA will launch the Genesis
spacecraft. Its mission will be to journey outside the earth's
magnetic field to capture samples of solar wind that is
expelled from the sun. Comprising atoms, ions, and atomic
nuclei, solar wind particles represent material similar to that
from which the planets were formed. Scientists hope this
research will provide a more detailed composition of the sun and
ultimately, the origin of the planets.
Students from all over the world will be able to take
part in the mission and learn more about its findings through
educational modules that are being designed for NASA by
the Mid-continent Research for Education and
Learning (McREL) Genesis Education and Public Outreach team.
To date, McREL has designed six modules: Cosmic
Chemistry: An Elemental Question; Cosmic Chemistry: The Sun and
Solar Wind; Planetary Diversity; Heat: An Agent of
Change; Modeling the Periodic Table: An Interactive
Simulation; and Exploring Origins. The modules are available to teachers and
students free of charge. They may be downloaded from
the Genesis mission outreach Web site at
http://genesismission.jpl.nasa.gov.
The educational modules have been developed
specifically for outreach by the McREL outreach team in
tandem with educators and specialists. Each module focuses on a specific facet of
the Genesis mission. The modules are designed
to work together in a complete learning cycle for students
in grades from fifth to fourteenth - some are written mainly
for middle school students, others provide an open-ended
format that can be utilized by almost any grade level,
allowing teachers to take the application to whatever level they desire.
Each module deals with serious content while taking
the students through various processes of scientific inquiry
being used in real life applications as part of the Genesis
mission. The modules are context-based, content-embedded,
and process-driven, meaning that each activity is based within
the context of the Genesis mission, designed to be
process-oriented and deliver content and concept learning within
the specified framework of the various stages of the learning
cycle. Since the modules are standards-based, they should be
easily incorporated into an existing curriculum.
Mentor, U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad Program
College educators are invited to apply for a position
as mentor for the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad
program, which is sponsored by the ACS. Duties during the
three-year term include helping to conduct the national study
camp for high school students held at the United States Air
Force Academy in mid-June 2001, 2002, and 2003. Generally,
in their second and third year, mentors accompany four
U.S. student competitors to the International Chemistry
Olympiad (IChO). During the competition, the mentors serve
as members of the IChO Jury.
Since most students at the study camp have
completed Advanced Placement chemistry or the equivalent,
instruction at the camp is well beyond the level of high school
general chemistry courses. The curriculum also includes
considerable laboratory work.
For further information, additional details about
duties and commitments, and application forms, contact
Anjalika Silva, Coordinator, U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad
Program, American Chemistry Society, 1155 Sixteenth
Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036; phone 202/872-6169.
Three letters of reference are due by January 24, 2000, and the
deadline for completed applications is February 1, 2000.
Master of Chemical Education Program, University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania Department of
Chemistry, School of Arts and Sciences, and Graduate School
of Education are currently recruiting the first class of
students for a new Master of Chemical Education (MCE)
program. It is a specially designed ten-course program of study
for working professional science educators - current
chemistry educators as well as science educators wishing to
specialize in chemistry. The program typically includes two courses
during each of three consecutive summers and two courses
during each intervening school year. Summer courses will
run Monday through Thursday mornings, and the school
year courses will meet on selected Saturday mornings. Each
course integrates science and pedagogy by addressing the direct
application and use of the chemistry subject matter in the secondary school program.
The content, materials, and
pedagogy are aligned with national, state, and local science
standards; forefront chemical research will be included in the
program. For more information about the program, phone:
215/898-4894; email: MasterChemEd@sas.upenn.edu;
or write to Master of Chemical Education Program, University of
Pennsylvania, Department of Chemistry, 231 South 34th
Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323;
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/chem/MCE.
Workshop on Porous Materials
TRI/Princeton will offer the workshop
Characterization of Porous Materials: From Angstroms to Millimeters,
June 19-21, 2000, in Princeton, NJ. The workshop will
provide an opportunity to discuss state-of-the-art approaches to
characterize porous materials of different origins in the size
range from angstroms to millimeters. Lectures by recognized
leaders of science and technology will include both the
theoretical principles and the methodology of modern
experimental techniques. Contact Nicole Pozsonyi by phone at
609/430-4820 or email at
info@triprinceton.org.
Short Course on Emulsions
The 31st annual one-week short course, "Advances
in Emulsion Polymerization and Latex Technology" will be
offered at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, during the
week of June 5-9, 2000. The course is an in-depth study of
the synthesis and properties of high-polymer latexes.
Lectures, given by leading academic and industrial workers, begin
with introductory material and review and progress through
recent research results. For further information
contact Mohamed S. El-Aasser, Emulsion Polymers Institute,
Lehigh University, 111 Research Drive, Bethlehem, PA
18015; phone: 610/758-3082; fax: 610/758-5880;
email: mse0@lehigh.edu.
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, 1999, and 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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