SUNDAY |
4:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | New Reagents for Chemistry Education: Incorporation of Videos and Computers |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Lichter |
| Preamble: Alan Cowley |
| Nathan Lewis "Development of Computer Graphic Visualization Aids for the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum" |
| Barbara Sawrey "An Interactive Lab Manual: Increasing Student Learning in the lab with Computer use outside the Lab" |
| John Moore "A User-Friendly General Chemistry Course" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Selected talks by poster presenters |
| Discussion Leader: Bassam Shakhashiri |
| TBA |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Bonding Human Resources: Methods and Styles of Teaching |
| Discussion Leader: William Lester |
| Sheila Tobias "What Do Our Tests Tell Our Students, about Themselves and about Science?" |
| Eric Mazur "Understanding or Memorization: Are We Teaching the Right Thing?" |
| Stephen Thompson "Small-Scale Chemistry: Mapping Chemistry for the Next Millenium" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Bonding Human Resources: Methods and Styles of Teaching |
| Discussion Leader: Joanne Stewart |
| Cathy Middlecamp "Culturally-Inclusive Chemistry" |
| Earl Peace "Instruction by Guided Inquiry: Let's Teach What We Practice" |
| Continuation of Poster Session I |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Hybridization of Chemistry: Biological, Materials, and Environmental Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Marcetta Darensbourg |
| Seyhan Ege "Structure and Reactivity as a First-Year Course in Chemistry" |
| Truman Schwartz "Chemistry in Context: Weaving the Web" |
| George Lisensky "A Materials Science Companion: Solids in the Foundation" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session II |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Hybridization of Chemistry: Biological, Materials, and Environmental Chemistry |
| Discussion Leader: Carlos Gutierrez |
| Richard Eisenberg "Ventures in Chemistry: Alternative First-Year Chemistry for Science Students - And More" |
| John Droske "New Initiatives in Polymer Education" |
| Harold McGee "'Cook-Book' Chemistry Redefined" |
| Continuation of Poster Session II |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | A New Transition State: Revamping the Undergraduate Curriculum |
| Discussion Leader: Al Thompson, Jr. |
| Anthony Ingraffea "Engineering Education Coalitions: A Model forCurricular Reform for Chemistry?" |
| Nedah Rose "Into the 21st Century: The Next Generation of Publishing" |
| Thomas Pearsall "Visualization and Analysis of Complex Sets of Data: Applications to Teaching and Research in the Physical Sciences" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | A New Transition State: Revamping the Undergraduate Curriculum |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Watson |
| Harry Gray "Chemistry Departments of the Future" |
| Small group discussions on revising the curriculum |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Experiments with Experiments |
| Discussion Leader: John Clevenger |
| Susan Kegley "Framing Chemistry in a Social Context: Environmental Issues as a Tool for Teaching Freshmen Chemistry" |
| Priscilla Laws "Workshop Physics as a Model for Reforming Introductory Science Teaching" |
| Lawrence Kaplan "Forensic Science. Crime in the Chemistry Curriculum" |
12:30 pm | Lunch / Departure |