The current trend among entering students is a continued trend in what can only be described as materialism.

Both the constant progress of chemical research ant the changing nature of the student population have made the modification of the content of chemistry courses a continual and necessary process.

The Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) intention is that its grantees will present one or more major lectures about the proper aims of American postsenconday education, the obstacles,, and ways they might be surmounted.

It is instructive to review the recent history of education's response to technological change, to assess where we are today, and to attempt to peek into the future.

In this paper computer and video-based display technologies are illustrated and compared to traditional means of displaying images.

Given that laboratory instruction has something to offer in the education of students, the greatest single problem with the current process of laboratory instruction is the logistic impediment to the student gaining access to meaningful experiments.

Let us work to build up students' own mental toolkits so that they can approach chemistry, and science in general, successfully.

An introduction to basic searching principles and to the chemical resource material available online.

The undergraduate chemistry curriculum ought to contain some instruction in online searching of Chemical Abstracts.

This data base, essentially a subject index, consists of substance names, their Registry Numbers and characteristics, and actual structural representations.

The author gives a review of and possible explanations for Van't Hoff's inconsistencies.

Beekman assumed four kinds of atoms, corresponding to the classical four elements (earth, water, air, and fire). So each natural substance was supposed to be a compound of all four elements, specific differences arising from differences in proportion.

The authors would like to show how the wartime fervor influenced their personal attitudes as citizens of nations in conflict, and how their nationalistic feelings gained the upper hand over their more rational thinking as scientists.

This article, base on text and captions from the History of Chemistry exhibit is intended to bring contents of the exhibit to a new audience, and stimulate new research into this important field.

The purpose of this article is to present an energy function containing a single integral and one variational parameter.

This article describes an approach for solving eq 2, a differential equation that arises in the discussion of a set of consecutive chemical reactions that are outlined in eq 1.

The author describes several experiences that have been encountered by the use of these programs with the idea that they may be helpful to the instructor who is not completely comfortable with the computational methods described by Lipkowitz but agree with the need to introduce them to students in their classes.

99. Bits and pieces, 39. Current numerical methods for the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation utilize algorithms that converge automatically and rapidly on solutions, easily yield part-per-million accuracy in eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, are applicable to any potential, and can be coded for microcomputer use in about 40 lines of BASIC code.

99. Bits and pieces, 39. The purpose of this project was to develop an interactive computer program that would provide many examples and help students develop a systematic approach to master these skills.

99. Bits and pieces, 39. The authors have written a computer program in which the characteristics of any given carbon atom are introduced as a succession of letter and numbers in a predetermined order.

99. Bits and pieces, 39. The authors have written a BASIC program for obtaining reliable estimates of K and spectral parameters for the 1:1 complex formation.

99. Bits and pieces, 39. The advantage of cubic equations of state (EOS) lies in the fact that they can be solved analytically for the volume of a real gas when both the temperature and pressure are given.

Presented here is an alternative derivation that is at once less elegant and more direct and that has one additional property that is advantageous: the derived equation explicitly gives the results for both intercepts simultaneously.

It is the intent of this article to describe and illustrate a tandem approach for the teaching of stoichiometry that the author developed.

Some of the most useful alkanes are high-molecular weight molecules obtained by the polymerization of ethylene.

What follows is a description of a three-week summer course on recombinant DNA offered to talented high school students between their junior and senior years.

For five years the Chemistry Department of Creighton University has sponsored a Chemistry Field Day, a full day of chemistry fun and competition for high school chemistry students.

A progress in the development of general stereochemical principles has been significantly influenced by studies that led to determination of the crystalline and solution structures of sugars, the subject of carbohydrate chemistry is developed here in historical fashion.

To get students more intimately involved in the three-dimensional nature of the basic units, the following laboratory exercise has students construct models for the seven unit cells.

Semi-microscale experiments provide many advantages over macroscale work, including reduced cost of reagents, reduced waste generation, reduced vapors in lab, and increased safety.

The authors have developed a simple one-hour student experiment that demonstrates photochemical halogen substitution in a quantitative way using heptane, bromine, and water.

The fundamental flaw in Sabba and Zebrowski's argument is the fact that even if autoionized copper (II) chloride dihydrate could be predicted to be green, it does not follow that the observed green color proves autoionization.

The aluminum plate is cheap, effective, clean, and pleasing to the eye, as well as having applications in synthetic work.

The authors use a simple miniware design of a galvanic cell that is less expensive and time consuming.

In this document, the authors report the development of a microscale photochemical immersion well that incorporates all of the traditional advantages of microscale glassware, as well as offers significant developments for the pedagogy of organic photochemsitry.

This method has been particularly useful in organic qualitative analysis.

The Comet Individual Egg Poacher can be used instead of crystallizing dishes which break easily in a sand bath.

The authors have found that trifluoroacetylation of unknown alcohols is a fast, clean, easily performed microscale experiment that integrates a number of aspects of laboratory work, viz. synthesis, isolation, characterization, spectroscopic measurement, and interpretation, and unknown identification.

This experiment is designed to demonstrate the principles of separation by solvent extraction, partition coefficient, and the construction and use of a Beer-Lambert standard curve.

In an attempt to alleviate the problem of waste, the author's department has downscaled the amount of chemicals used in the general organic student laboratory by instituting the microscale operation.

Automation permits laboratories to maintain high-quality results while increasing productivity and creating more challenging work for technical personnel.

Four of the most common types of emergency equipment are, specifically, eyewash, eye/face wash, drench showers, and combination units. Here is how they relate to the widely accepted American National Standards for Emergency Eyewash and Shower Equipment.

These computer programs deal exclusively with the subjects of inorganic nomenclature and balancing simple equations.

The program is primarily a tutorial supported by nonrandom generated problems which require user input.

This program is divided into four modules and is intended to supplement laboratory experience in solubility determination.

This program is divided into four modules and is intended to supplement laboratory experience in solubility determination.

The volume reflects the philosophy of most current general chemistry texts in that physical chemistry and numerical problem solving receive the greatest emphasis.

This text is a new entry into the very competitive market of chemistry for the allied health sciences.

The exemplary and challenging aim of Intermediate Organic Chemistry is to bridge the gap between the completion of the first year sophomore organic chemistry and the world of the practicing organic chemist.

Compared with the sixth edition, the seventh edition has five fewer chapters.

This volume contains 47 of Hoffmann's poems, involving both his experience inside and outside the laboratory.

This latest edition contains a wealth of information on 668 universities and colleges in the United States and Canada that offer bachelor's and master's curricula in chemistry; chemical engineering; pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry; clinical chemistry; and polymer science.

Designed to give the same type of information on an international scale that the ACS Directory of Graduate Research provides for the United States and Canadian institutions.