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Marijn R Meijer is a part time PhD student at the Freudenthal Institute for Science and Mathematics Education at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. The object of his research is macro-micro thinking using stracture-property relations. He took a MSc in Chemical Engineering Science and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education in Chemistry and The Science of Public Understanding at The University of Twente. He is a teacher in both subjects for 11 years in secondary (high) school. He participates in several innovative projects related to recent developments on the chemistry curriculum in The Netherlands. 

Julie A. Haack is a senior instructor and assistant department head for chemistry at the University of Oregon, where her work has focused on the incorporation of green chemistry principles into the introductory chemistry curriculum for both science and nonscience majors. She is a leader in facilitating the identification, development, and dissemination of green chemistry educational materials throughout the chemistry curriculum. 

The predecessor of this volume appeared in 1993, and covers a variety of topics. (7) The present volume also contains various schemes for improving the physical chemistry curriculum, as well as new suggestions for the laboratory portion of the course. There have been other workshops and meetings, including a workshop on curricular developments in the analytical sciences sponsored by the NSF and chaired by Prof. Ted Kuwana of the University of Kansas. (2) You, the teacher of physical chemistry must decide how to apply this large amount of information and the physical chemistry knowledge that you already possess. You should make these decisions consciously, based on the situation that you face and on your goals and objectives for the course. This essay is primarily an attempt by a retired professor of physical chemistry to comment on some of the decisions he has made in a career of four decades. 

Computational methods are of increasing importance in the chemical sciences. This paper describes a computational chemistry laboratory course that has been developed and implemented at the University of Michigan as part of the core physical chemistry curriculum. This laboratory course introduces students to the principle methods of computational chemistry and uses these methods to explore and visualize simple chemical problems. 

This chapter will describe how the physical chemistry curriculum at Creighton University was revised to include a one-semester overview of physical chemistry with laboratory, followed by elective courses in specific areas of physical chemistry. The course is preceded by a mathematics course designed specifically to prepare chemistry students for the mathematics encountered in a rigorous physical chemistry course. 

This opposition to change is especially counterproductive today because it is occurring at a time when the overlap between these historical domains is growing rapidly. Consequently, as more mathematics enters the university chemistry curriculum, many chemists now concur that the traditional boundaries which separate the various historical subdivisions are not only obsolete, but also act as a major obstacle to progress. Additionally, there has not been any consensus regarding how canonical names for new discoveries, as well as for older known chemicals that were originally named in a different fiefdom, are to be assigned. 

Isai T. Urasa, Hampton University I just want to underscore what Robert Lichter just said about the quality chemistry curriculum that has been implemented at the undergraduate institutions. Even before we can draw up success stories, there are a lot of stories out there that are ongoing, both in the instructional process as well as in undergraduate research that we have identified as being very important. 

Stolk, M De Jong, 0., Pilot, A. (2000). Professional development of teachers in a process of chemistry curriculum innovation, hi R. H. Evans, H. Sorensen, A. Moller Andersen (Eds.), Bridging research methodology and research aims. The 5th European Science Education Summerschool (pp. 299-307). Gilleleje, Denmark The Danish University of Education. 

The idea for the REACTIVITY NETWORK(2) began as early as 1978 at an international conference on introductory chemistry entitled "New Directions in the Chemistry Curriculum"(t) held at McMaster University. Participants in this Conference agreed that the general chemistry courses at both the high school and college levels are overloaded with theory. Worse still, this oversimplified theory is presented to an audience insufficiently mature to... 

New Directions in tha Chemistry Curriculum McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1978. 

Many undergraduate science majors take on academic-year or summertime research projects at their home institutions, at other colleges or universities, or at some chemical industry location in the form of an internship. These are valuable experiences since they allow students to experience both the joys and frustrations of cutting-edge research. Working in a research lab is often a very different experience from performing academic lab experiments that are associated with courses in a chemistry curriculum. Many new hazards can be encountered and the level of supervision can vary considerably in comparison to lab courses, where experiments have been pretested, hazards are well known, and supervision is constant. 

You were involved in the development of chemistry curriculum for Indian universities. What are the key aspects of a good chemistry curriculum according to you ... 

This book contains a number of examples, that serve to illustrate the presented theories. The examples are of a realistic nature, though they are simplified, and presented in a generalized form they are usually about the chemical reaction A + B —> P + 0. The author has avoided the complications inherent to specific chemical examples, and hopes that the reader may recognize familiar situations. The reader should not be discouraged by the large number of mathematical equations. The mathematics does not go beyond the level that is standard in any university chemistry curriculum. The equations serve but one purpose to be used to calculate the effects of known phenomena under altered conditions, e.g., for different concentrations, for larger scales, etc. These mathematical models serve as a tool for chemical reactor development. They may be used for the preliminary design of a reactor that is "first of a kmd . 

An Evolutionary Approach to Nanoscience in the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum at James Madison University... 

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