Newsletter - Winter 2012 - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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No ACS chapter can claim these amazingprivileges that CALPACS members often take forgranted. So, don't miss the next opportunity tocelebrate your profession by drinking one of itsearliest successes. Keep your eye out for the nextCALPACS event, and make your reservationsearly.Special thanks are extended to Nanine VanDraanen for organizing the event, and to Jamesand Cathy Pavlovich, David and Ramona Marten,Jaime Dwight, and John Hagen for providing thedelicious spread.We celebrated last year's National ChemistryWeek by holding a slime-making activity at thePaseo Nuevo mall on October 29th. ACS memberKristi Lazar, an Assistant Professor of Chemistryat Westmont College, led this event. She wasassisted by Westmont Chemistry students.National Chemistry Week 2011Pictured from left: Nicole Grabe, Elizabeth Grossman,Kristi Lazar, Kylie Miller and Ryan Morgan.Kristi reported: "The students have told me howthankful that they were to be a part of this funday. We had a steady stream of kids visit ourtable to make slime and it was a beautiful day!"
We also held a liquid nitrogen ice cream demoevent at Hope Elementary school in SantaBarbara. Caleb Bos, Westmont CollegeChemistry Club president, and Ellen Brudi, aWestmont Chemistry student, visited HopeElementary and made liquid nitrogen ice creamfor approximately eighty 5th and 6th gradestudents. The kids enjoyed the demonstration andhad many good questions about phases of matterand nitrogen.New Faculty HiresAlan L. Kiste completed aB.S. in Chemistry atCalvin College in GrandRapids, Michigan in1993. He earned an M.S. inMacromolecular Science andEngineering and an M.A. inEducation, both from theUniversity of Michigan inAnn Arbor.After teaching high school chemistry for severalyears, he returned to the University of Michiganwhere he earned a combined doctorate inChemistry and Education while working withBrian Coppola and Joseph Krajcik. His researchinterests include the development of new methodsfor analyzing chemistry students' learning andproduction of chemistry symbolism andrepresentations, and the analysis of studentrepresentations using these new methods, theexamination of how students utilize learningresources in large lecture classes, and thedevelopment, assessment, and evaluation of newpedagogical interventions. He joined the facultyin the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistryat Cal Poly in September 2011.Greg Scott is a native ofeastern Kentucky andearned his B.S. inchemistry from DavidsonCollege in North Carolinain 2004. Subsequently, hejoined the corps of TeachFor America where hetaught high schoolchemistry and physics inBrownsville, TX for two years before pursuinggraduate studies in physical chemistry at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. AtIllinois, Greg earned his Ph.D. under MartinGruebele, where he performed experimentalstudies of single-molecule optical absorption
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