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September 13, 2010 Cover
Volume 88, Issue 37
COVER: Students work in self-managed teams to understand concepts and solve problems through Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning(POGIL)
Volume 88, Issue 37
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C&EN examines two trends: funding agencies push for assessment of education projects, and chemistry professors maintain multiple research groups and labs worldwide
COVER: Students work in self-managed teams to understand concepts and solve problems through Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning(POGIL)
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September 13, 2010 Issue
Volume 88, Issue 37
September 13, 2010 Issue, Vol. 88 | Iss. 37
C&EN examines two trends: funding agencies push for assessment of education projects, and chemistry professors maintain multiple research groups and labs worldwide
(p.47)
Features
Government & Policy
Corn-kernel-based ethanol hits the fast lane, but cellulosic ethanol is still stuck in first gear (pp. 20-23)
Science & Technology
With new fuel formulations, reactors could extract more energy, reduce hazardous waste (pp. 29-31)
Cover Story: Pedagogy That Works
Measuring Success
Funding agencies are pushing for more data to prove that investing in chemical education innovation is paying off
(pp. 48-52)An Office Across The Ocean
Seizing unique opportunities, u.s. professors set up shop abroad
(pp. 53-54)News of the Week
Ion-Initiated Cross-Talk
Supramolecular Chemistry: Electron transfer in complex begins with ionic interactions
(p.5)Melanoma Drug's Structure Revealed
Drug Development: Promising skin cancer therapy targets a rogue kinase
(p.7)A Bleak View For Curbing CO2
Environment: Breaking the world’s fossil-fuel addiction will be difficult at best, study suggests
(p.8)Bristol-Myers To Buy Zymogenetics
Pharmaceuticals: Purchase adds to drugmaker’s virology portfolio
(p.9)Departments
Business
Evonik’s investment in a Chinese pharmaceutical ingredients firm takes a turn for the worse
(pp. 12-13)
Data-loss prevention emerges as a new line of defense for information technology
(pp. 14-15)
Seaside’s unique funding stream enables progress in treatments for fragile X and autism
(pp. 16-17)Concentrates
(pp. 10-11)
(pp. 10-11)- Kemira Invests In Water
- Petronas Files For Chemical Stock Offer
- Industrial Gas Firms Get Fined
- Bridgestone Triples Electronic Paper
- Solvay Invests In Electronics, Polymers
- Heraeus Gets Starck Conductive Polymers
- Two German Firms Buy DyStar Facility
- PerkinElmer Sells Lighting Business
- Chemical Firms Invest In Solar Materials
- Roche And Remynd Will Target Tau
- Ono Gains Rights To Onyx Drugs In Japan
- New Roche Program Signals Staff Cuts
- Takeda Licenses Orexigen Obesity Drug
- Business Roundup
ACS News
Government & Policy
Corn-kernel-based ethanol hits the fast lane, but cellulosic ethanol is still stuck in first gear
(pp. 20-23)
Drugmakers say patent settlements create savings for health care system
(pp. 24-25)Education
Funding agencies are pushing for more data to prove that investing in chemical education innovation is paying off
(pp. 48-52)
Seizing unique opportunities, u.s. professors set up shop abroad
(pp. 53-54)
C&EN examines two trends: funding agencies push for assessment of education projects, and chemistry professors maintain multiple research groups and labs worldwide
(p.47)
Science & Technology
International: Nobel Laureates suspect sinister motives in absence of Israeli scientists; many others disagree
(p.38)
Structural Biology: Switchable fluorescence technique measures multiple distances in single molecules
(p.27)
With new fuel formulations, reactors could extract more energy, reduce hazardous waste
(pp. 29-31)
ACS Meeeting News: Amino acid substitutions boost natural peptides’ germ-killing abilities and reduce side effects
(pp. 36-37)
ACS Meeting News: Chemists pay tribute to a respected editor and look to the future of the field
(pp. 33-35)