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Poster - Theoretical Proposal
Description
Chemistry and the history of it is more important than most people realize and are taught about in college level lectures and labs. Chemistry is part of everything we use and consume on a daily basis. Scientists put years into their research and work to develop safe ways to use chemicals and make products. This proposal researches the international history and the overall internationality of chemistry and suggests tangible ways to implement it into the lectures and laboratories. The significance of the internationality of chemistry is evident by the national diversity of the Nobel Prize winners in chemistry, numbers of chemists, chemical companies and their sales around the world, numbers of international students and those studying chemistry, and the American Chemical Society’s international efforts to find the best information and ways that it can be incorporated. Whereas information on the history and internationality of chemistry is available, there appears to be a disconnect when it comes to awareness of that information in the college lectures and laboratories. Some ways that it could be incorporated is through having a brief slide every lecture and/or lab on a different Nobel Prize winner every week, and the scientist chosen could even be connected to the topic being taught about in lecture and/or lab that day. For example, when introducing the Grignard reagent and reaction in organic chemistry, Francois Grignard could be briefly taught on as an introduction to the lecture. Future research that could be done is the statistics of international knowledge of students that were and were not taught about the history of chemistry in college classes.
Increasing International Awareness of Chemistry
Poster - Theoretical Proposal
Chemistry and the history of it is more important than most people realize and are taught about in college level lectures and labs. Chemistry is part of everything we use and consume on a daily basis. Scientists put years into their research and work to develop safe ways to use chemicals and make products. This proposal researches the international history and the overall internationality of chemistry and suggests tangible ways to implement it into the lectures and laboratories. The significance of the internationality of chemistry is evident by the national diversity of the Nobel Prize winners in chemistry, numbers of chemists, chemical companies and their sales around the world, numbers of international students and those studying chemistry, and the American Chemical Society’s international efforts to find the best information and ways that it can be incorporated. Whereas information on the history and internationality of chemistry is available, there appears to be a disconnect when it comes to awareness of that information in the college lectures and laboratories. Some ways that it could be incorporated is through having a brief slide every lecture and/or lab on a different Nobel Prize winner every week, and the scientist chosen could even be connected to the topic being taught about in lecture and/or lab that day. For example, when introducing the Grignard reagent and reaction in organic chemistry, Francois Grignard could be briefly taught on as an introduction to the lecture. Future research that could be done is the statistics of international knowledge of students that were and were not taught about the history of chemistry in college classes.
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Undergraduate