ACS Spring Meeting 2021

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

American Chemical Society

Professor Emerita

General Papers

Optical measurements on a budget: A 3D printed ellipsometer

Computational Investigation of the importance of diffusion, convection, and reaction time scales on electrochemical cyclic voltammetry characterizations

Comparison of student learning outcomes across traditional, hybrid, and online modes of course delivery in undergraduate general chemistry courses

Comparison of retention of student learning outcomes among three different flipped classroom modalities: Synchronous online, hybrid, and face-to-face in an introductory general chemistry course

Exploring GTA experience and practice in multiple sessions of a mixed reality teaching simulator

Introducing theoretical principles of semi-, relative and absolute quantification via conventional, real-time and digital PCR to graduate and senior undergraduate students of chemistry

Student memorization of electron-pushing mechanisms in organic chemistry: Poor attitude or cognitive stepping stone?

From thin-layer to high performance: Introducing chromatography and polarity to the first semester general chemistry laboratory

Creative ways of presenting the metabolism for non-chemistry majors

Personalized practice makes perfect: Holding students accountable with ALEKS for chemistry

Molecular modeling exercises as a means to prepare general chemistry students for organic chemistry

Construction of the optical rotatory dispersion curves for α- and β-D-glucose from mutarotation measurements with a home-made polarimeter

Teaching general chemistry laboratory courses at a primarily undergraduate institution during COVID-19

Engaging students in a large online quantitative analysis course developed using backwards design

Contextualized general chemistry: Using the context of COVID-19 in a liberal arts chemistry course

Using online individual student presentations in biochemistry to assess critical thinking and effective communication skills

Why voltammetric current is scan rate dependent? Tangible representation of a mathematically dense concept using conceptual thinking.

Chemical security education is needed for undergraduate and graduate students

Implementation of an at-home first semester biochemistry lab module: It can be done.

“A biochemist and a physical chemist walk into an organic lab...” Or how teaching a course outside your specialty can improve not only that course but inform the curriculum before and after

On-line transitioning of a general chemistry red-ox lab through the use of customized data and videos

3D atomic and nuclear periodic tables of the elements: Elementouch and nucletouch

Extraction and quantification of glychyrizzin for SARS-CoV-2 3CL protease inhibition studies

Development of an applied learning general chemistry project at the vineyard

Developing Inquiry-based laboratory projects for general chemistry

Evaluating the effects of climate change and environmental context POGIL curricula on student performance in a general chemistry classroom

Freshmen interest group analysis of the first year experience

Lessons learned from the NSF center for sustainable nanotechnology virtual summer undergraduate research experience

Introducing scientific ethics into the chemistry curriculum: Chemistry in the movies

Student design and characterization of fluorescent-DHFR fusion proteins as a visual biochemistry lab education tool

Homemade microscale tin plating

Examining some of the challenges students face in learning about solubility and the dissolution process

Examining some of students’ views on the nature of science (NOS) in traditional lecture format teaching environment

Interrelation between extracurriculum students' engagment and academic success of students

Using chemistry concepts inventory to identify alternative conceptions and their persistence in general chemistry courses

Assessment activities for feedback in non-major courses

Image recognition for laboratory glassware: A data-science and machine learning project for chemistry students

Multiple ways to virtually engage students in chemistry labs

Design of culinary transformations: A chemistry course for nonscience majors

Analysis of consumer products: Application of chemometrics and LC-MS/MS for the simultaneous analysis of caffeine and other methylxanthines in guaraná powder extract

Activities and discussion in a chemistry of science fiction course

Virtual group project to evaluate medical test performance characteristics and develop communication skills in an analytical chemistry course

OrgoPrep: Improving student outcomes in organic chemistry through a peer-led remote intersession program

Using undergraduate research to enhance STEM education at the individual and departmental Level

Oils, containers, viscosity and rheology: A simple study of fluid flow in the general chemistry lab

Virtual inorganic lab on isomerization and pseudorotation using variable temperature 31P-{1H} NMR data

Chemistry, art and archaeology – overcoming adversity to promote active learning with a virtual multidisciplinary course

Social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analogy to explain collision cross sections in chemical kinetics

Assessing student outcomes: limitations in using letter grades and DWF rates as indicators

Baltimore SCIART: A fully virtual undergraduate research experience at the interface of computational chemistry and art

Integration of evidence-based learning strategies and instructional design in a chemistry bridge course at Sam Houston State University

Modeling amino acid mutations in SARS-CoV monoclonal antibodies (80R and 362); Towards the design of more universal antibodies

Myth of sp3 hybridized C atom; modern analog of phlogiston theory

Remote chemistry laboratory education: Can we do it safely?

Building an effective mentoring culture in a large chemistry department

Launch of the POGIL activity clearinghouse

New peer review model for reviewing POGIL activities remotely with reviewer training and peer feedback

Simplified counting and assignment of significant figures

General Papers

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Optical measurements on a budget: A 3D printed ellipsometer