Following in the tradition of the first five editions, the goal of this market leading textbook, Chemistry in Context , sixth edition, is to establish chemical principles on a need-to-know basis within a contextual framework of significant social, political, economic and ethical issues. The non traditional approach of Chemistry in Context reflect today's technological issues and the chemistry principles imbedded within them. Global warming, alternate fuels, nutrition, and genetic engineering are examples of issues that are covered in CIC.
About the Authors:
Lucy T. Pryde Eubanks is a Lecturer in Chemistry at Clemson University (SC) and serves as the Associate Director of the American Chemical Society’s Division of Chemical Education Examinations Institute. She received a B.A. degree in chemistry from Mount Holyoke College and a MA and MSNS degree from Seattle University. She has taught at Southwestern College (CA), Grossmont College (CA), and Mesa College (CA), as well as several high schools.
Eubanks is active in the ACS, serving as chair of the ACS Division of Chemical Education, Inc. (DivCHED) in 1992, and as vice-chair of the program committee and member of organizing committee for the 14th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education. In addition, her service to DivCHED includes: chair of Personnel and Nominations Committee and chair of the Program Committee. Presently she serves as the DivCHED liaison to ACS Divisional Officers Group. She is also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Center for Science in the Public Interest, National Science Teachers Association, South Carolina Association of Chemistry Teachers, South Carolina Science Council, and South Carolina Science Supervisors Association.
Eubanks is co-Principal Investigator on several funded activities involving teacher training and assessment, including South Carolina Exemplary Faculty for Advanced Technological Education, National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant, 1995-1998; and, Chemistry Computer-Based Objective Assessment Tasks (ComBOAT Project), NSF Grant, 1993-1996. Her current research interests include computer-based assessment, small-scale chemistry, and alternative assessment strategies.
Eubanks’ honors and awards include Visiting Scientist of the Year (1993) , ACS Western Connecticut Section; Southwestern College Award, "Woman of Distinction," 1985; and National CATALYST Award for Excellence in Community College Chemistry Teaching, Chemical Manufacturers Association, 1984.
Catherine Middlecamp is the Director of the Chemistry Learning Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison and teaches both general chemistry for liberal arts students and a graduate seminar entitled "The Teaching of Chemistry." She did her undergraduate studies at Cornell University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and earned her doctorate degree in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as a masters degree in the School of Education.
Over the past 20 years, she has designed, supervised and taught in a number of programs for students under-represented in the sciences, both collegiate and pre-collegiate. She is co-author of the book, How to Survive and Even Excel in General Chemistry, and has contributed chapters to several books on women in science. In 1998, she was elected a member of the UW-Madison Teaching Academy.
Currently she is a national advisory board member for the Women and Scientific Literacy at the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the task force co-leaderf for Women and Diversity at Project Kaleidoscope, and a national advisor for Montana's Rural Women and Girls in Science Project. She is the editor of a discovery-based laboratory project on the Web, based in Puerto Rico, and serves as a member of the Program Committee for the ACS Division of Chemical Education, Inc.
Carl E. Heltzel was formerly the Monroe Moosnick Professor of Chemistry at Transylvania University, where he taught numerous courses for over 9 years. Dr. Heltzel has also taught courses as visiting professor at the University of Hawaii, the University of Kentucky, and Chaminade University. He is the co-author or editor of 9 chemistry and environmental chemistry textbooks, including the ACS textbook Chemistry in Context. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and other periodicals. Dr. Heltzel has served as a consultant to a number of institutions including the Ohio EPA, the California EPA and Integrated Solid Waste Management Board, the United States Department of Education, the Center for Aluminum Technology, the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, the Kentucky Coal Association, Environmental Research, Inc., and various law firms. Dr. Heltzel is a member of the American Chemical Society?s National Committee for Environmental Improvement, and was the Chair and Councilor of the Lexington Section of the ACS. Dr. Heltzel is the recent past editor of the ACS magazine ChemMatters which was awarded the top honor of Distinguished Technical Publication in the Society for Technical Communication?s International Competition in 2007.
Steven Keller an associate professor of chemistry at MU, Steven Keller has always been passionate about research and education. After receiving his bachelor’s degree from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash., and his doctoral degree at the University of California-Berkley, Keller had multiple job offers. Ultimately, he chose MU due to its strong chemistry program and opportunity for research.
“In other work settings, there’s very little opportunity to teach and engage in research, but at Mizzou, you get to—and are expected to—do both, and that really excited me,” he says.
Keller, who teaches large lecture classes and small graduate courses, has been at MU since 1995. He said the thing he enjoys most about teaching chemistry is the opportunity to explain things on multiple levels.
“I’m sure all disciplines have that, but I think chemistry does that at least as much as—if not more than—any other discipline,” he says. “Depending on individual students, instructors are forced to explain things in different ways and potentially on different levels, and that’s always a challenge I enjoy.”
In addition to his time spent working with undergraduate and graduate students, Keller also devotes a great deal of his time to teaching honors level courses.
“The questions I get from Honors College students tend to be a little deeper and that leads to a more intellectually stimulating environment,” Keller says. “The main challenge I struggle with is making sure that the content of the courses is challenging enough and that there’s openness for differing student ideas and viewpoints.”
Keller also serves as an advisor for Wakonse Service and Learning Community in Excellence Hall and is a faculty adviser for Zou Crew and Tiger’s Lair, the student cheering sections at MU basketball and football games.
With his involvement both inside and outside the classroom, Keller has received a number of awards. In 1998, he received the National Science Foundation Career Award. In 1999, he was awarded the Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award and in 2003, he earned the Kemper Award. He also has received the Most Inspiring Professor Award, Excellence in Education Award and honorary introduction into the Mortar Board Society, among others.
About the Publisher:
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The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 158,000 members at all degree levels and in all fields of chemistry, chemical engineering, and related fields. It is the world's largest scientific society and one of the leading sources of authoritative scientific information.
The ACS is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. The ACS holds national meetings twice a year covering the complete field of chemistry and also holds dozens of smaller conferences in specific fields. Its publications division produces dozens of scholarly journals including the prestigious Journal of the American Chemical Society, Nano Letters and ACS Nano. The primary source of income of the ACS is the Chemical Abstracts Service and 38 peer-reviewed publications. Chemical & Engineering News is the weekly news magazine published by the American Chemical Society and is sent to all members. The ACS membership is organized into 186 geographical Local Sections and 32 Technical Divisions.
The group holds a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (MHE)
Authors: Lucy Pryde Eubanks, Catherine H. Middlecamp, Carl E. Heltzel and Steven W. Keller
Language: English
Format: PDF
Pages: 604
ISBN: 978–0–07–304876–5
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