Dear IONiC friends,

I decided to put this in the "Faculty Only" section because it's a bit of a rant.

I hope that it inspires similar contributions about the joys of technology and teaching. I could imagine similar rants about lecture and laboratory preparation. And just so you know, the following list is exactly what I had to do today to prepare a general chemistry exam.

WRITING A TEST

The old days, before technology:

1.     Hand out blue books.

2.     Write test questions on board.

Dear Colleagues,

I am thinking about teaching concepts of nuclear chemistry for the first time. Any suggestions or ideas?

Sibrina

Hi there,

I am trying to work with the article template for the journal Inorganic Chemistry (http://pubs.acs.org/page/inocaj/submission/templates.html). The website only provides templates for  Microsoft Word 2003 for Windows. I suppose I should confess to being a PC user.

Hey VIPEr Gang,

What is the proper way to say "meridonial"? This may be a stupid question, but I thought I would ask.

Dear VIPEr Colleagues,

I hope all is well. I was recently informed by a friend that GChem is not inorganic chemistry, but it is actually P-Chem with a little bit of analytical chemistry. I am curious to know your view. 

Dear Colleagues,

Dear VIPEr Colleagues,

I wanted to know if their would be an interest in senior VIPEr faculty willing to share their tenure review packages with junior VIPEr faculty? I understand that tenure review/policies vary from institution to institution, but this could be a good mentoring opportunity to help junior faculty. I am not up for tenure this fall. Just a thought. 

Sibrina

One of the offices here on campus is offering to pay for faculty to attend the Lilly Conference for teaching either this fall or spring.  I am asking faculty member here on the forum if they have ever been to one and if they could give some insight as to what they got out of it.  The conference this fall has some sessions that I think will be very beneficial to some of the things that I want to try.  I am just not familiar with it at this poiint.

Thanks,

Nick

Hey everybody. 

Sorry its taken me so long to get active on this wonderful site.

Here's my question: