CCMR Institute for Chemistry Teachers 2005
The 2005 CCMR Institute for Chemistry Teachers (CICT) program participants were:
- Richard Bray - Windsor Central High School, Windsor, NY
- Amy Broderick - Lexington School for the Deaf, Jackson Heights, NY
- Gregory Horrace - Somers High School, Lincolndale, NY
- Jenny Jeffrey - Taconic Hills High School, Craryville, NY
- Jeanne McAnany - Steuben Allegany BOCES Wildwood Vocational Education Center, Hornell, NY
- Janet Miles - Pioneer Central High School, Yorkshire, NY
- Judy Moffitt - South Glens Falls Senior High, South Glens Falls, NY
- Nancy Oberliesen - Cicero-North Syracuse High School, Cicero, NY
- Lucila Patch - Salmon River Central High School, Ft. Covington, NY
- Paula Ranous - Oswego High School, Oswego, NY
- David Ruth - South Seneca High School, Ovid, NY
- Richard Rutherford - Walton Central School, Walton, NY
- Tracy Suggs - Vestal Senior High School, Vestal, NY
- Anne Tan - Capital Region Career and Technical School, Albany, NY
- Megan Thomas - Waverly High School, Waverly, NY
Throughout the week, New York State chemistry teachers participated in a variety of activities such as lectures by Cornell faculty, hands-on laboratory activities and research facility tours. Through these activities, the teachers developed an appreciation for modern chemistry, learned about recent advances in the field and gained a deeper understanding of the topics they teach.
The 2005 CICT program ran from July 11 - July 15 and included the following talks, labs and activities:
- "Organic Chemistry " (Prof. Jón Njarðarson)
- Lab Safety Training
- Organic Chemistry Demos and Tour (Njarðarson Research Group)
- "Equilibria in Polymeric Materials" (Prof. Chris Ober)
- Polymeric Equilibria and Equilibria Reactions Lab (Ober Research Group)
- Tour of Cornell Theory Center Computer Aided Virtual Environment CTC CAVE (Dr. Drew Dolgert)
- "Redox Reactions" (Prof. Melissa Hines)
- Electric Detective Lab (Hines Research Group)
- Mining the Internet (Chemistry Librarian Leah Solla)
- "Electrochemistry" (Prof. Frank DiSalvo)
- Batteries Lab (DiSalvo Research Group)
- Bleach Titration Lab (Dr. Catherine Oertel)
- "Fuel Cells" (Prof. Héctor Abruña)
- Teacher developed labs sharing session
- Tour of Cornell Fuel Cell Institute (Dr. Paul Mutolo)
