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Career profile: Head of Medicine Design – Charlotte Allerton
// Tuesday, June 25, 2019 • Charlotte Allerton
Early on in my life, the transformative impact anti-histamine and asthma medicines had on my life awakened a deep curiosity in how medicines work. Eventually I found myself working on teams attempting to design those medicines, most recently within Pfizer’s Medicine Design organization.
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Pittcon Donates $20,000 to Fund Equipment for Teacher Workshops at ChemEd 2019
// Monday, June 24, 2019 • Maranda Flamm
Are you in the mood for some chemical reactions? Do you want to participate in an electrochemistry laboratory activity? Are you interested in free equipment for your classroom? If you answered YES to any of these questions, then Pittcon and ChemEd 2019 has you covered!
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What is Claim, Evidence and Reasoning?
// Thursday, June 20, 2019 • Stephanie O'Brien
In this activity your students will be introduced to the concepts of claim, evidence and reasoning. The activity is POGIL- like in nature in that no prior knowledge is needed on the part of the students. 
June 2019 Cover of JCE
Especially JCE: June 2019
// Wednesday, June 12, 2019 • Erica K. Jacobsen
How do scientists figure out things? How do they go from asking a question that hasn’t been answered before and work toward understanding?
Particle level model of Pentane
Measuring Surface Tension to Investigate Intermolecular Forces
// Friday, May 31, 2019 • Ben Meacham
Considering the foundational role intermolecular forces (IMFs) have when trying to explain and understand chemical phenomena, it is likely that this topic is addressed, to various degrees, in the classrooms of many chemistry teachers.
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What Are You Doing After the AP Chemistry Exam?
// Tuesday, May 28, 2019 • Anne Schmidt
The Question When you teach an AP chemistry course and your students are still in school until the first or even second week of June, you are faced with a very popular question and educational dilemma: “What are you going to do with your AP students with another month of school left after the AP chemistry exam?”
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Element of the Month - Sulfur
// Saturday, May 18, 2019 • Stephen Wright
"In honor of the International Year of the Periodic Table this series of articles details the Element of the Month project developed by Stephen W. Wright (SWW), Associate Research Fellow at Pfizer Inc., and Marsha R. Folger (MRF), chemistry teacher (now retired) at Lyme – Old Lyme High School in Connecticut.
JCE cove for May 2019
Especially JCE: May 2019
// Friday, May 10, 2019 • Erica K. Jacobsen
Take a flight. No, I’m not asking you to step on a plane. Take a page out of a wine and beer tasting approach as you look at the May 2019 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education.