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On Traveling, Teaching, And Storytelling: Some Thoughts On Research, Lindsey B. Harlan
On Traveling, Teaching, And Storytelling: Some Thoughts On Research, Lindsey B. Harlan
Convocation Addresses
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How To Find Students’ Inner Geek, Marc Zimmer
How To Find Students’ Inner Geek, Marc Zimmer
Chemistry Faculty Publications
As a chemistry professor at a liberal-arts college, the author believes it is his job to find the youthful awe in his students and draw it out so that they will be intrigued once again by science and nature, so that they want to learn about equilibria, pH, and redox reactions. He has to go fishing inside their brains, to find, hook, and reel in their scientific spirit. Most of the students he teaches have not yet deeply suppressed their inner science geek. He can hook almost all of them if he uses the lures available to professors everywhere: enthusiasm, …