October 2007: Dr. Ann Nalley is currently a Professor of Chemistry in the Physical Science Department at Cameron University, a position that she has held since 1969. Before coming to Cameron she taught high school chemistry and mathematics at Muskogee High School. She has held positions as a visiti...

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November 2008: Unlike many prominent chemists who cite the influence of their high school chemistry teacher in stimulating their interest in science, Susan Olesik was inspired by her peers who wore distinctive decorations indicating they were members of an honor society. That caused her to focus on...

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October 2008: Jeanette Gecsy Grasselli Brown, prominent analytical chemist, successful infrared and Raman spectroscopist, world renowned authority on its applications, and excellent laboratory manager, was inspired by her high school chemistry teacher to secure an education in chemistry. She &ldquo...

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September 2006: Dr. Kristin Bowman-James is currently the Professor of Chemistry at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas and is Project Director of Kansas NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). Kristin has been at the University of Kansas for 31 years and is cu...

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June, 2004: School: College of DuPageTitle: Professor of ChemistryEducation: Rosemont College – ABOhio State University – MS I chose chemistry for a number of reasons, the primary one being that I enjoyed it. I had a female chemistry teacher in high school, my mother had a degree in ch...

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June, 2004: School: Prairie Crossing Charter School (previously at Illinois Math and Science Academy) Title: DirectorEducation: Notre Dame College of Ohio – BSCase Western Reserve University – MS and PhD In high school I was fascinated with chemistry because it helped to explain how an...

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June, 2004: School: Loyola University of ChicagoTitle: Professor of ChemistryEducation: Antioch College – BA in Cultural AnthropologyUniversity of Arizona – MS in Soil FertilityUniversity of Illinois UC – PhD in Agronomy (Soil Chemistry)University of Wisconsin, Madison – pos...

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May, 2004: Dr. Ka Yee Lee of the University of Chicago was interviewed by Margaret Stowell Levenberg including questions suggested by Dr. Connie Jeffery of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Lee was born in Hong Kong, graduated from Brown University in 1986, and earned a Ph.D. in applied ph...

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Kids, can you make a fizzy reaction without using vinegar? Yes you can! There are many experiments where the trick is to mix baking soda with vinegar, creating carbon dioxide fizzy gas and water. But if you don't happen to have vinegar around, here is another way to, for example, make that scienc...

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