Papers by Catherine Middlecamp
Journal of Chemical Education, Sep 1, 2006
As the European Union expands to include more countries, the differences in the individual, natio... more As the European Union expands to include more countries, the differences in the individual, national educational systems at the high school and university levels become more apparent, and the goal to unify them becomes more daunting. This symposium will examine the current state of chemistry education in Europe and consider the possible mechanisms necessary to achieve EU-wide concordance. Cosponsored with Federation of European Chemical Societies.
Presentation for the Symposium for Teaching and Learning Excellence, University of Wisconsin-Madi... more Presentation for the Symposium for Teaching and Learning Excellence, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 26 February 2009.
Journal of Chemical Education, Dec 1, 1999
American Journal of Physics, 2000
The nature of the human self is paradoxical: for every gift or strength we possess, there is a ... more The nature of the human self is paradoxical: for every gift or strength we possess, there is a corresponding weakness or liability. We need to embrace opposites and appreciate paradoxes. Six paradoxes to build into the teaching and learning space The space should be bounded and open The space should be hospitable and "charged" The space should invite the voice of the individual and the voice of the group The space should honor the "little" stories of participants and the "big" stories of the disciplines and traditions The space should support solitude and surround it with the resources of community The space should welcome both silence and speech Knowing in Community: Joined By the Grace of Great Things To teach is to create a space in which the community of truth is practiced. Truth is the eternal conversation about things that matter, conducted with passion and discipline. The community of truth includes a transcendent dimension of truth-knowing and truth-telling that takes us beyond relativism and absolutism alike.
Sustainability: The Journal of Record, Jun 1, 2020
In this article, the authors offer their reflections on the past 10 years of the student intern p... more In this article, the authors offer their reflections on the past 10 years of the student intern program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Sustainability. They first outline the histo...
Acs Symposium Series, 2020
In the undergraduate curriculum, chemistry and sustainability connect easily and well. Topics in ... more In the undergraduate curriculum, chemistry and sustainability connect easily and well. Topics in chemistry provide instructors with opportunities to engage students in learning about sustainability; similarly, topics in sustainability provide instructors with opportunities to engage students in learning chemistry. One's own college or university campus is a useful source of content related both to sustainability and to chemistry. To obtain this content, instructors must seek out and learn from those working in campus facilities and operations. For the past five years, the approach of utilizing campus-based content was employed by the authors in teaching an introductory environmental science course. This paper describes three topics from this course that general chemistry instructors can use to help students make connections to sustainability: the carbon cycle, the carbon footprint, and the energy required to heat water. These topics are presented with the hope that instructors will use them with data from their institutions, utilizing their own campus as a "living laboratory" for sustainability.
Sustainability and climate change, Jun 1, 2022
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, Dec 1, 2019
Journal of Chemical Education, Aug 1, 2007
Meeting Program: All ACS Divisions • Preliminary program, including forms for registration, hotel... more Meeting Program: All ACS Divisions • Preliminary program, including forms for registration, hotel reservations, and ordering tickets to social events (luncheons, dinners, etc.): Chemical & Engineering News, June 17, 2002, and the ACS Web site, http://www.acs.org/, underchoose a page-choose Meetings, and then click on Boston.
Sustainability, Dec 3, 2019
The production of food is associated with significant environmental impact. In this paper, we des... more The production of food is associated with significant environmental impact. In this paper, we describe the first assessment of the environmental impact of food consumption in the United States using individually reported dietary intake data from a nationally representative sample. Using individual-level dietary intake data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) and applying median environmental impact factors compiled by Poore and Nemecek (2018), we estimate that the daily diet that a non-institutionalized U.S. civilian reports results in a mean of 3.92 m 2 (95% CI: 3.51-4.34) of land used, 2.26 kg (95% CI: 2.09-2.42)of CO 2 e emitted, and 159 L (95% CI: 150-168) of freshwater withdrawn. The scope of all impacts is agricultural; transportation, storage, and preparation were not included. These results suggest that the calculator is ready for further development. This calculator can be used to estimate the environmental impact of individual diets in the 5100 studies (as of November 2018) registered with the Automated Self-Administered 24-h Dietary Assessment Tool, in addition to the last two decades of the nationally representative NHANES research.
ChemInform, Aug 21, 2010
ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was e... more ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
Journal of Chemical Education, Aug 23, 2021
Journal of Chemical Education, Aug 1, 2005
As the European Union expands to include more countries, the differences in the individual, natio... more As the European Union expands to include more countries, the differences in the individual, national educational systems at the high school and university levels become more apparent, and the goal to unify them becomes more daunting. This symposium will examine the current state of chemistry education in Europe and consider the possible mechanisms necessary to achieve EU-wide concordance. Cosponsored with Federation of European Chemical Societies.
Acs Symposium Series, 2015
Journal of Chemical Education, 2007
This book is to establish chemical principles on a need-to-know basis for non-science majors, ena... more This book is to establish chemical principles on a need-to-know basis for non-science majors, enabling them to learn chemistry in the context of their own lives and significant issues facing science and the world. The non-traditional approach of Chemistry in Context reflects today's technological issues and the chemistry principles within them. Global warming, alternate fuels, nutrition, and genetic engineering are examples of issues that are covered in this boo
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Oct 1, 2022
Educación Química, Apr 9, 2018
When instructors teach chemistry using real-world contexts, they weave connections between chemis... more When instructors teach chemistry using real-world contexts, they weave connections between chemistry and the large public issues of our world. They also weave connections between chemistry and the smaller-but equally significant-personal issues in the lives of their students. Teaching and learning chemistry in real world contexts is not new; rather, it is a well-established practice backed by research on how people learn. What has one college chemistry instructor (and her students) learned over the past 40 years? The answer to this question is multi-dimensional, involving teaching philosophy, learning outcomes, changing contexts, changing content, and bringing the content and the contexts together. In answering this question, this paper employs air quality and plastics as examples of two real-world contexts that can engage students in learning chemistry through the "big questions" in our world today.
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Papers by Catherine Middlecamp