ECE MELD Spring 2025: High School Students Engage in Hands-On Chemistry at UConn More than 240 students from 12 high schools – Rocky Hill High School, O.H. Platt High School, Enfield High School, Berlin High School, The Woodstock Academy, University High School of Science and Engineering, Jonathan Law, Joseph Foran high school, Daniel Hand high […]
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Prof. Nicholas Leadbeater Awarded 2023 CLAS Mentoring Award
Congratulations to Prof. Nicholas Leadbeater for being awarded the 2023 CLAS Mentoring of Undergraduate Students Award! The Faculty Mentoring Awards recognize faculty who demonstrate exemplary support, encouragement, and the creation of opportunities to enrich the learning and professional development of others.
Interactive Periodic Table Tells Stories, One Element at a Time
Department Chemistry Periodic Table Display | UConn Christian Brückner started collecting more than 45 years ago when he was a young teenager in Germany and his father a metallurgist who’d bring home laboratory leftovers to feed his son’s growing interest in crystals and science. From an early 19th century bottle of a mercury salt to manganese […]
High School Students Exposed to UConn Chemistry Through Virtual Event
Students from Berlin High School didn’t let COVID-19 get in the way of learning directly from UConn faculty The UConn Department of Chemistry, working alongside the Office of Early College Programs & UConn Early College Experience (ECE), annually brings high school students from around Connecticut to the Storrs campus to see exactly what happens in […]
Teaching in the Time of COVID-19
Classrooms and teaching labs were emptied in late Spring 2020 because of public health measures to counter COVID-19. In response to a call for papers in April by the leading journal in chemical education, the ACS Journal of Chemical Education, chemistry educators from around the world chronicled their response to rapid changes in teaching modalities […]
A Tale of Two Lab Courses
A recent article in ACS Publications, from Prof. Kiet Tran, Prof. Anwar Beshir, and Prof. Abhay Vaze, demonstrates a comparison of the experiences of both organic and analytical lab faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic distance learning initiative is described here. Faculty of both lab courses experienced four shared challenges in the transition to the online […]