{"id":5,"date":"2020-05-21T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemed\/chemistry-education\/"},"modified":"2020-06-01T00:49:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T04:49:04","slug":"chemical-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemed\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">About Chemical Education<\/h3>\n<hr style=\"width: 40px; height: 4px; color: #24243a; background-color: #24243a; border: 0;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In a 2007 paper, Carl Wieman (Nobel Prize in Physics winner and strong scientific education advocate) asks: &#8220;Why not try a scientific approach to science education?&#8221; That is our primary goal: to develop, assess, and implement evidence-based practices for training the next generation of chemists and world citizens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Chemistry holds the answers to some of the most critical problems facing the world today: medicine, climate and energy, hunger, and more. We have a responsibility to nurture a fascination and appreciation for the molecular sciences, equip the chemical practitioners of tomorrow, and educate the general public.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Chemical Education Activities at BU<\/h3>\n<hr style=\"width: 40px; height: 4px; color: #24243a; background-color: #24243a; border: 0;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Faculty at BU are engaged in Chemical Education Research (CER) projects at all levels of the undergraduate curriculum. Their work covers a wide-array of CER activities such as studying how student misconceptions arise and how they can be avoided; developing novel laboratory and inquiry experiences across the curriculum; promoting the learning of transferable skills through embedded experiences, including communication and writing skills; pioneering the Learning Assistant (LA) program at BU; transforming the chemistry classroom through the effective use of educational technology; and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Chemical Education In a 2007 paper, Carl Wieman (Nobel Prize in Physics winner and strong scientific education advocate) asks: &#8220;Why not try a scientific approach to science education?&#8221; That is our primary goal: to develop, assess, and implement evidence-based practices for training the next generation of chemists and world citizens. Chemistry holds the answers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6368,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}