With fresh funding from the National Science Foundation, IONiC continued the VIPEr Summer Workshop series in Dearborn, MI in June 2018. Nine inorganic faculty from colleges and universities around the country came together to develop new primary literature-based content centered around Molecular Orbital theory and Bonding. Three future faculty from area institutions joined us for an unparalleled opportunity for mentoring and training before beginning their independent academic careers. Expert speaker, Nicolai Lehnert, of the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor collaborated with the workshop participants to draw out materials suitable for the undergraduate inorganic classroom from his recent work on iron-nitrosyl model complexes of enzymatic systems. Seven new classroom-ready Learning Objects, hosted on VIPEr and freely available, resulted from the four-day workshop. This workshop was the first of a new model for the VIPEr Summer Workshops; the next offering will be in Summer 2019 in the northeast United States.

Bonding with Nicolai and Henry in the D(earborn):  A VIPEr content building workshop on molecular orbital theory and bonding

2019 Spring National Meeting

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