Around 6 p.m. on a Friday night, John Pollard locks his office, pulls his beach cruiser through the doors of the Old Chemistry building and rides the two miles to his home. From morning until night, ...

The general chemistry course that college students take today doesn’t look much different from the one their parents took. A typical class switches from topic to topic at breakneck speed, with each ...

No academic catalog is going to define an undergraduate class as a “weed-out” or “gatekeeper” course. But these courses can come to define individual career paths, pushing some students out of STEM ...

Cooperative Learning in General Chemistry, a Web site with materials related to the Notre Dame course for almost 10 years before he set foot in front of a lecture hall full of freshmen in 1995. An ...

This module teaches fundamental concepts in chemical kinetics for General Chemistry using examples of water quality and water treatment. Key chemistry topics include concentration vs. time data; rate ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Every year, hundreds of undergraduates at the University of Delaware dig into research under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Such experiences provided by UD — a nationally recognized ...

Although this is her first year as a faculty member in the Department of Chemistry, Claudia Novack started teaching at Brandeis long before this semester—it just happened to be a very different ...

For visual learners, a molecule of ethanol is easier to understand when its carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms have careened onto a screen and spun around for a bit. Likewise, for these learners the ...

As a first-year college student in an introductory chemistry class sits down for their midterm, which might be their first stepping stone toward a career in academia, research or medicine, a thought ...