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Catherine Hurt Middlecamp and Margaret F. Phillips

Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706

Anne K. Bentley

Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907

Omie Baldwin

University Health Services, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706

J. Chem. Educ., 2006, 83 (9), p 1308

DOI: 10.1021/ed083p1308

Publication Date (Web): September 1, 2006

Section:

History, Education, and Documentation

Abstract

Uranium and American Indians is the first chemistry course in the University of Wisconsin System that meets the ethnic studies requirement for general education. As one of the 2004 model courses for the national SENCER project (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities), this course teaches through a complex, current, and contested set of issues facing a community of people to the underlying scientific principles. More specifically, the course explores the connections between the national need for uranium, the health and environmental effects of mining and milling the uranium ore, and the Navajo people (the Diné) who lived and are still living on the land where the ore was found.

Keywords (Audience):

Upper-Division Undergraduate

Keywords (Domain):

Curriculum

Keywords (Feature):

Interdisciplinary Connections

Keywords (Subject):

Nuclear / Radiochemistry

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- Chemistry, Society, and Civic Engagement (Part 1): The SENCER Project
  Catherine Hurt Middlecamp , Trace Jordan , Amy M. Shachter , Karen Kashmanian Oates , Sue Lottridge
  Journal of Chemical Education2006 83 (9), 1301
  Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) is a national dissemination project for courses in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. SENCER courses connect science and civic engagement by teaching through complex,...
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