Conference Program
 
CHEMISTRY EDUCATION RESEARCH & PRACTICE

January 6-11, 2001
Ventura Beach Marriott
Ventura, CA

Chair:
Robert L. Lichter

Vice Chair:
Melanie M. Cooper

Saturday
2:00-11:00Arrival and Registration
7:30Informal Reception
Sunday AM
8:45Conference Photo
9:00Conference Introduction: R. Lichter
Discussion Leader: David Yaron, Carnegie Mellon University
9:15Dudley Herschbach (Harvard University)
Frontiers of Chemistry Lecture: Maxwell's Demon: Taming Unruly Molecules
10:30Break
10:50Ronald Stevens, Marcia Sprang, and Terry Vendlinski (University of California, Los Angeles)
A Neural Network Approach to Studying Learning.
Sunday PM
Discussion Leader: Susan Wiediger, Rice University
7:30Jeffrey Kovac (University of Tennessee Knoxville)
Writing as Thinking
8:30Carol Rogers (University of Maryland, College Park)
Science Communication and Science Education: Teaching and Learning Together
Monday AM
Discussion Leader: Stacey Lowery Bretz, Youngstown State University
9:00Mary Huber (The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching)
Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching: Reflections on the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
10:10Richard Felder (North Carolina State University)
Effectiveness of Active and Cooperative Learning
11:10Break
11:30Alice Agogino (University of California, Berkeley)
A National Digital Library for Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technical Education
Monday PM
Discussion Leader: Samuel Abrash, University of Richmond
7:30Pam Mabrouk (Northeastern University)
A Student Perspective on Undergraduate Research Experiences in Chemistry and Biology
8:30George Bodner (Purdue University)
Research on the Teaching and Learning of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
Tuesday AM
Discussion Leader: Anne Duffy, University of California, San Diego
9:00 Maria Klawe (University of British Columbia) Gender Issues in Educational Use of Information Technology
10:30Break
10:50Willie Pearson (Wake Forest University)
African American Chemists: From Grade School to Grad School
Tuesday PM
Discussion Leader: Earl Peace, University of Wisconsin-Madison
7:30Alan Friedman (New York Hall of Science)
Lessons about Learning from Science and Technology Museums
8:30Debra Colodner (Biosphere 2 and Columbia University)
Chemistry and the Biosphere: Lessons from Biosphere 2
Wednesday AM
Discussion Leader: Mark Walter, Oakton Community College
9:00Eric Chaisson (Tufts University)
Interdisciplinary Science Education
10:30Break
10:50Charles Dziuban and Patsy Moskal (University of Central Florida)
The Impact of Distributed Learning on a Metropolitan University
Wednesday PM
7:20Business meeting: Robert Lichter and Melanie Cooper
Discussion Leader: Jeffrey Kovac, University of Tennessee Knoxville
7:45Panel Discussion: John Moore (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Brock Spencer (Beloit College), Angelica Stacy (University of California, Berkeley), Pratibha Varma-Nelson (St. Xavier University)
Lessons Learned about Curricular Transformation from the NSF Chemistry Initiatives
Thursday AM
Discussion Leader: Melanie Cooper, Clemson University
9:00Elaine Seymour (University of Colorado)
Role of the Teaching Assistant in Undergraduate Chemistry Education Reform
10:30Break
10:50Janet Robinson (University of Kansas)
Development of Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Graduate Students: A Research-based Program of Professional Development

Last Updated: May 4, 2006