CHED 1597 |
| This presentation will discuss a non-majors forensic science course that was developed and taught at St. Olaf College. This course was designed after the instructor attended the Center for Workshops in the Chemical Sciences – Forensic Science Workshop. The course is offered both with and without a hands-on laboratory component, but the focus of this presentation will be on the laboratory experiences. An overview of the lab course will be presented, highlighting ideas, concepts, and entire experiments that were adapted from the CWCS workshop. In addition, several new experiments have been developed and will be discussed. These include an examination of paint chips using visible reflectance spectroscopy, investigation of a possible drug overdose using UV spectroscopy, and identification of fabrics using Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR). |
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Center for Workshops in the Chemical Sciences (CWCS)
8:30 AM-11:40 AM, Tuesday, March 27, 2007 McCormick Place North -- Room N230B, Level 2, Oral
Division of Chemical Education |