Workshop on Undergraduate Chemistry Education
National Academy of Sciences
Washington, DC
AGENDA
Wednesday May 22, 2013
Welcome and Opening of the Workshop
8:30 Introduction to the Workshop and its Goals: Patricia A. Thiel, Ames Laboratory and Iowa State
University
Drivers and Metrics: Evaluating the Need for Change
Chair: Miguel Garcia-Garibay, University of California, Los Angeles
8:40 Introduction to the Session: Miguel Garcia-Garibay
8:45 The Role of the ACS Guidelines for Bachelor's Degree Programs: Anne McCoy, Ohio State
University
9:15 Is American Science in Decline?: Alexandra Killewald, Harvard
9:45 A PCAST Perspective on STEM Education in the New Millennium: S. James Gates Jr., University
of Maryland
10:15 Break
10:45 Chemistry and the Premedical Curriculum: The Impact of MCAT2015: Joel Shulman, University
of Cincinnati
11:15 Lessons Learned at NSF: Susan Hixson, NSF (retired)
11:45 Discussion
12:15 Lunch (lunch will be provided)
Industry Perspectives: Is There a Need for Change?
Chair: Emilio Bunel, Argonne National Laboratory
12:45 Panelists:
Shannon Bullard, Human Resources and Program Manager, DuPont
David E. Harwell, Assistant Director, Career Management and Development, American
Chemical Society
Francine Palmer, Research & Innovation Director for North America, Solvay
1:30 Break
Innovations and Barriers (Part 1)
Chair: Mark Cardillo, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
2:00 Introduction to the Session: Mark Cardillo
2:15 Propagating Meaningful Reform in Chemistry Education and the Relative Roles of Enthusiasm
and Evidence, Thomas Holme, Iowa State University
3:00 Teaching Introductory Chemistry with a Molecular and Global Perspective: The Union of
Concepts and Context: James G. Anderson, Harvard University
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3:30
4:00
4:30
Survey of Large-Classroom Reforms: Clark Landis, University of Wisconsin, Madison
What Gets Measured is What Gets Learned: Assessing Student Understanding: Angelica Stacy,
University of California, Berkeley
Open Comment and Discussion Period
5:00
Adjourn for the day
Thursday May 23, 2013
8:30
Welcome to the Second Day of the Workshop: Mark Cardillo, Camille and Henry Dreyfus
Foundation
Innovations and Barriers (Part 2)
Chair: Emilio Bunel, Argonne National Laboratory
8:40 Introduction to the Session: Emilio Bunel
8:45 Today's Students and Tomorrow's Leaders: Integrated Concentration in Science: Scott
Auerbach, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
9:15 Online Education and MOOCs: Experience with 3.091x, Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry:
Michael Cima, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:45 Taking Off the Training Wheels: Dealing with Risk, Failure and Uncertainty: Jeffrey Moore,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
10:15 Break
Wrap-up Panel Discussion among Department Chairs
Chair: William Carroll, Occidental Chemical Corporation
10:30 Panelists:
Michael Doyle, University of Maryland
Miguel Garcia-Garibay, University of California, Los Angeles
Sarah A. Green, Michigan Technological University
Susan Olesik, Ohio State University
Jeffrey Reimer, University of California at Berkeley
William Tolman, University of Minnesota
11:50 Closing Remarks
Patricia A. Thiel, Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University
12:00 Workshop Adjourns
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