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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We offer small classes, lots of interaction with professors and research opportunities that at many institutions would be limited to graduate students. All of our faculty are engaged in research that ...

This module focuses on thermochemistry, which is covered in either general chemistry I or general chemistry II depending on institutional preferences. The module consists of several activities.

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 ...

A major in Chemistry requires a significant number of prerequisite courses. With proper planning, most students manage to fit all prerequisite and required courses into 4 years. If you are getting a ...

It’s a seemingly age-old question: which of Brown’s general chemistry courses should first-semester pre-medical students take? This choice, some pre-med students say, matters much more than you may ...

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 of Renewable Energy invites nonscience majors to engage in a topic that profoundly impacts our society. In this course, renewable (and non-renewable) energy sources are investigated from a ...