CCMR Institute for Chemistry Teachers 2007
The 2007 CCMR Institute for Chemistry Teachers (CICT) program participants were:
- Milissa Albano - Southwestern High School, Jamestown, NY
- Julie Boucher -Williamswille North High School, Williamsville, NY
- Jason Bradley - Westmoreland High School, Westmoreland, NY
- Judith Exler - Norman Thomas High School, NYC, NY
- Kristina Fanghanel - Victor Central School District, Victor, NY
- Alan Gardner - New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle, NY
- Peter Hannigan - Delhi Central School District, Delhi, NY
- Astrid Helfant - Oneida High School, Oneida, NY
- Pamela Kirby - Cato-Meridian High School, Cato, NY
- Barbara LaBarre - Binghamton High School, Binghamton, NY
- Diana Larrabee - Corcoran High School, Syracuse, NY
- Patricia Lindquist - Southwestern High School, Jamestown, NY
- Jessica Lyons - East Aurora High School, East Aurora, NY
- Peter Manuelpillai - Elmira Free Academy, Elmira, NY
- Sydney Mendez - Nottingham High School, Syracuse, NY
- Paula Nottingham - Nottingham High School, Syracuse, NY
- Tracy Radley - Liverpool High School, Syracuse, NY
- Christopher Schmid - Locust Valley School District, Locust Valley, NY
- Lisa Seale - Theodore Roosevelt High School, Yonkers, NY
- Erica Smith - Cuba-Rushford Middle/High School, Cuba, NY
- Robert Stealey - Whitesboro High School, Marcy, NY
- Catherine Taggart - Auburn High School, Auburn, NY
- Gary Tarolli - Henninger High School, Syracuse, NY
- Rosanne Van Wie - Vestal High School, Vestal, 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 2007 CICT program ran from July 23 - July 27 and included the following talks, labs and activities:
- Lab Safety Training
- "Electrochemistry" (Dr. Neal Abrams)
- Batteries Lab (DiSalvo Research Group)
- Chemistry Research Lab Tours (Crane, Coates and Hinestroza Research Groups)
- "Bonding & Structure" (Prof. Paul Chirik)
- The Spectrochemical Series Lab (Chirik Research Group)
- Tour of Cornell Theory Center Computer Aided Virtual Environment CTC CAVE (Ken Ridley)
- Mining the Internet (Chemistry Librarian Leah Solla & Physics Librarian Pat Viele)
- "Fuel Cells" (Dr. Neal Abrams)
- Teacher developed labs sharing session
- "Organic Chemistry " (Prof. Tom Ruttledge)
- "Liquid Carbon Dioxide Extraction of Limonene from Orange Rind" (Tom McCarrick)
- "Equilibrium" (Prof. Floyd Davis)
- pKa of Unknown Acid-Base Indicator Lab (Davis Research Group)
- "Kinetics" (Prof. Jiwoong Park)
- Chemical Kinetics: Iodine Clock Reaction Lab (Park Research Group)
- "Free Enery & Entropy" (Prof. Melissa Hines)
- Name That Salt Lab (Hines Research Group)
