Incorporating circular dichroism in the undergraduate chemistry curriculum

CHED 1523

Andrea E. Holmes, andrea.holmes@doane.edu, Department of Chemistry, Doane College, 1014 Boswell, Crete, NE 68333 and Trace Jordan, trace.jordan@nyu.edu, Morse Academic Plan, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, New York, NY 10003.
Faculty at Doane College has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and implement laboratory experiences and collaborative student research utilizing circular dichroism (CD) as a means to improve undergraduate student learning in chemistry. During the project, the use of CD will be incorporated into Organic Chemistry when the concept of chirality is introduced, into Biochemistry, and into student research projects. With the help of anexternal evaluator, the project will expand STEM education knowledge by examining whether CD spectroscopy helps students develop a better understanding of chirality as a feature of molecular structure, and by examining the relationship between students' spatial ability and their success with CD experiments.

The project is supported by the NIH grant number P20 RR016469 from the INBRE Program of the National Center for Research Resources and by the NSF (DUE-0633462).

 

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Division of Chemical Education

The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008