Chemical Safety in the Research Laboratory (Chem 620)  is a one credit graduate level course required of all students.  The course began face-to-face, but due to the COVID pandemic, it was then modified to a hybrid format, and later required to be 100% online.  The first half of the course covered basic research lab safety, and a take-home midterm exam assessed student learning.  However, to engage students through the turbulence of changing course formats, the second half of the course was seminar-based.  Each student prepared and delivered a thirty minute Zoom seminar on a topic of their choosing.  Part 1 of ths poster session covers these international and tragic accidents:  Beirut, Bhopal, Chernobyl, Bangladesh tube wells, Styrene (India), and personal tragic accidents at UCLA and Dartmouth.

A seminar-based chemical safety course for graduate students: during COVID Part 1, international events

ACS Spring Meeting 2021

The official archive and repository for all ACS Meetings & Expositions abstracts and select posters or presentations.