New York University -- Officials and employees, Chemistry, Organic -- Study and teaching, College teachers -- Appointments, resignations and dismissals -- Practice, and Teacher-student relationships -- Demographic aspects
Science News. July 3, 2010, Vol. 178 Issue 1, p22, 5 p.
Subjects
Company business management, Biological research -- Methods, Biological research -- Management, Biology, Experimental -- Methods, Biology, Experimental -- Management, Life -- Origin, Life -- Research, and Chemistry, Organic -- Research
Abstract
A short stroll from Boston's Charles River, behind a sheath of blue glass on the seventh floor of a Harvard Medical School research building, Jack Szostak is getting set to [...]
SUSTAINABILITY, COVID-19 pandemic, SUSTAINABLE chemistry, UNDERGRADUATES, PHYSICAL constants, and CHEMICAL laboratories
Abstract
In this section of Resonance, we invite readers to pose questions likely to be raised in a classroom situation. We may suggest strategies for dealing with them, or invite responses, or both. "Classroom" is equally a forum for raising broader issues and sharing personal experiences and viewpoints on matters related to teaching and learning science. Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, we have planned a strategy for our institution which aims towards reuse and reduce principles of Green Chemistry. Organic preparations in the undergraduate curriculum can be utilized for other sister laboratory experiments such as recrystallization, determination of physical constants (m.pt) and detection of extra elements, detection of functional group and in qualitative analysis. The product of preparation can also be subjected to a second synthesis. This approach will reduce the amount of chemicals needed for carrying out experiments other than organic preparations. This paper illustrates a few organic preparations which can be reused for other companion laboratory exercises. This approach may set a model towards sustainability for other undergraduate laboratories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
