Undergraduate participation in the development and implementation of a CASPiE lab module for the organic laboratory

CHED 1714

Christine Toh, ctoh1@uic.edu, Department of Chemistry, Unversity of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Room 4500, Chicago, IL 60607-7061, Menaka Lunda, lunda@uic.edu, Department of Chemistry (MC 111), Unversity of Illinois at Chicago, 845 W. Taylor Street, Room 4500, Chicago, IL 60607, Duncan J. Wardrop, wardropd@uic.edu, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Room 4500, Chicago, IL 60607-7061, and Donald J. Wink, dwink@uic.edu, Department of Chemistry (MC 111), University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 W. Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607.
The development and implementation of an organic chemistry research module into the undergraduate laboratory curriculum, done under the auspices as part of the Center for Authentic Science Practice in Education, will be described. The module provides students with exposure to solid-phase synthetic methods and advanced instrumentation and incorporates a real research challenge: the hydrogenation of a resin-bound substrate. The role of undergraduate researchers in this project provides another example of the way in which undergraduates can contribute to research and to the design of research environments. Different stages of participation, from the testing of procedures to the leading of peer groups as they carried out the module, will be described.
 

Bringing Authentic Research into the Undergraduate Laboratory
8:30 AM-12:20 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 2007 McCormick Place North -- Room N231, Level 2, Oral

Division of Chemical Education

The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007