The 2015 fall semester marks the first year chemistry professors John Pollard and Vicente Talanquer will be using their complete co-authored e-textbook, “Chemical Thinking,” for general chemistry ...

With research, grant writing, and myriad other commitments, chemistry faculty who also have heavy teaching loads may find it tempting to turn to the same lecture notes they’ve been using year after ...

THE author of this useful manual rightly states that: “The task of the lecture demonstrator is unusually specialized, requiring, as it does, something of showmanship without submergence of educational ...

Chemistry majors complete courses providing a solid background in the physical sciences and mathematics, together with a sequence of courses in general, analytical, organic, inorganic and physical ...

Ask Nicholas Heelan about his first pass at intro-level college chemistry or about his professor, and he’ll tell you, “It was really bad. He would just talk and talk, and there wasn’t much interaction ...

The inaugural lecture originated in medieval times, when universities operated like guilds of scholars. The introductory lecture in those days was a declaration of intellectual mastery to show that ...

Fundamental principles and concepts of chemistry, including stoichiometry; thermochemistry; atomic and molecular structure; solution chemistry, including acid-base chemistry; quantum theory; bonding ...