University Chemistry Teaching

We have shown that women became Demonstrators and Lecturers outside of the university system, such as at Battersea Polytechnic (Chap. 3) and the London School of Medicine for Women (Chap. 4). Women chemists taught at other institutions, and we have chosen the lives of three women as examples. 

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Keil, C., and Murphy, R. (2006). An application of exposure modeling in exposure assessments for a university chemistry teaching laboratory. J Occup Environ Hyg 3, 99-106. 

Chitdeborough, G. D., Treagust, D. E, Mocerino, M. (2002, Eebruaiy 2002). Constraints to the development of first year university chemistry students mental models of chemical phenomena. Presented at the 11th Annual Teaching and Learning Eorum for Western Australian Universities, Edith Cowan University, Australia. 

In 1996, Mr. Kenkel won the prestigious National Responsible Care Catalyst Award for excellence in chemistry teaching, sponsored by the Chemical Manufacturer s Association. He has a master s degree in chemistry from the University of Texas in Austin (1972) and a bachelor s degree in chemistry from Iowa State University (1970). His research at the University of Texas was directed by Professor Allen Bard. He was employed as a chemist from 1973 to 1977 at Rockwell International s Science Center in Thousand Oaks, California. 

Similarly, by 1820, Thomson began practical chemical training at Glasgow University, which in 1829 formally established a chemical laboratory. Practical chemistry teaching began at the University of Edinburgh in 1823 under Charles Hope and at University College, London, in 1829.85... 

Apart from her teaching activities, Freund performed research on the theory of solutions that culminated in a substantial paper, and in 1904 she addressed the Cambridge University Chemistry Club on the topic of double salts.36 Her most renowned work, however, was a chemistry text, The Study of Chemical Composition,37 which remained popular for many years.38 The historian of chemistry, M. M. Pattison Muir, commented that her text is to be classed among the really great works of chemical literature, 39 and the book itself was reprinted in 1968 as a classic in the history of chemistry.40 Then in 1904, she wrote a manual of laboratory procedures, The Experimental Basis of Chemistry, which could be used to illustrate chemical concepts.41... 

Initially, Thomas was able to undertake some research but in later years, with the pressure of teaching and a hostility to women in the University Chemistry Research Laboratory, she focused her life on her students. A student, D.M.P., described how Thomas was a scientist and a feminist ... 

This leads up to pertinent acquisition of dynamical images of the chemical reaction. The animation could be applied in the high school, of course in the university, to teach the object of structure and the chemical equilibrium of the material, which is a unit of senior high school chemistry [8]. 

Stan was a longtime Secretary of the Editorial Board of Inorganic Syntheses. His awards and honors include the Wayne State University President s Award for Excellence in Teaching (1969), Heyrovsky Medal of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (1978), the ACS Detroit Section s Distinguished Service Award (1980), the Chemical Manufacturers Award for Excellence in Chemistry Teaching (1984), and the ACS Henry Hill Award and Engineering Society of Detroit s Gold Award (both in 1995),... 

To appreciate Chatt s position at this time it is perhaps important to place the study of inorganic chemistry in perspective. Before the Second World War, it was very much the Cinderella of chemistry, often of minor concern in University chemistry courses. The subject was either omitted from the courses or taught by staff who had little interest in the subject, particularly from the point of view of research. Thus M. G. Evans, a leading physical chemist of his day and holder of the Chair of Physical Chemistry in Manchester, excluded any major teaching of the subject from the chemistry degree course. 

Charles T. Driscoll is Professor of Environmental Systems Engineering and Director of the Center for Environmental Systems Engineering at Syracuse University. His teaching and research interests are in the area of chemistry, biogeochemistry and environmental quality modeling. Driscoll received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Maine and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Cornell University. 

Among the list of professions and occupations that involve extended study of chemistry at the beginning of this chapter are academic chemistry, industrial chemistry and chemistry teaching. The usual place for persons wishing to prepare for these careers is a chemistry department in a university. This education is thus not regarded as part of vocational education in the sectoral sense, but for these persons the curriculum of the chemistry they study is a vocational preparation in a more general sense. University chemistry departments also provide one or more years of chemistry for students in the other professions listed in the first paragraph of our introduction. 

Eric Malina has a BSEd in secondary chemistry teaching from Southwest Missouri State University, taught secondary science and mathematics and has a PhD in Science Education from Purdue University. He also spent two years in graduate study of analytical chemistry at University of Missouri-Columbia. His MS in chemistry education from Purdue University focused on the impact of scientific instmment on chemistry student attitudes towards science. His PhD research focused on the impact of scientific instmmentation on college student learning in the laboratory. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. 

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