This post was imported from my personal blog, as I make the transition to having a professional blog.
Teaching is great. It’s lots of work, but rewarding. My Monday/Wednesday schedule right now is: Wake up at 4:30 am; Get to work before 6 am; hopefully have a decent lecture ready for 9:00 am (General Chemistry I); [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘teaching’
November 17, 2008
My new life as a chem prof
March 29, 2008
Claude, the Lake and the Limestone
This post was imported from my personal blog, as I make the transition to having a professional blog.
I just gave a class on chemical equilibrium, and one of the big concepts was that although some things don’t look like they’re changing there are probably still a bunch of chemical reactions happening. They just have opposing [...]
January 18, 2008
Public access chemistry – chemspider
Chemistry International just featured an article on a free structure-based search engine for looking up any chemical! It’s called chemspider.
The wow-factor for non-chemists: Interactive 3D graphics! Try this: type in the common name of a compound. Maybe pick a complicated pharmaceutical like vancomycin. Under the structure listed in any of [...]
January 14, 2008
Learn about ideal gases!
This post was imported from my personal blog, as I make the transition to having a professional blog.
i just had a fun interview with a teaching talk on the properties of gases, and in the process of preparing i found this wicked awesome applet created by john gelder and michael abraham [...]
