CHED 466 |
| While great strides have occurred during the past decade in the areas of green chemistry and green chemistry education, informal surveys of undergraduate college science students indicate that a broad knowledge of this topic is still lacking. Nonetheless, it has been demonstrated in various venues that the green chemistry vision can be very motivational for typical undergraduate students attending organic chemistry courses. Our experience indicates that students can develop a powerful voice facilitating the paradigm shift toward green chemistry, simply by sharing the ideas of green chemistry with others. We refer to this as memetic catalysis, the transfer of cultural information representing a basic idea from one individual to another. Here we report the activities of our Green Organic Literacy Forum (GOLum), in which organic chemistry students have developed and implemented projects designed to introduce green chemistry to a broad audience. Specific strategies to equip instructors to engage in similar outreach will be offered. Further, the impact of this outreach at the level of the student, the course, the department and the institution will be examined. |
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Green Chemistry: State-of-the-Art Symposium for Chemical Educators
1:30 PM-4:55 PM, Wednesday, 13 September 2006 San Francisco Marriott -- Salon 6, Oral
Division of Chemical Education |