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Conrad Stanitski, Editor-in-Chief and Senior Author

Conrad Stanitski is Professor of Chemistry and Department Chair at the University of Central Arkansas. He received his B.S. in Science Education from Bloomsburg State College, M.A. in Chemical Education from the University of Northern Iowa, and Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Connecticut. As a chemical educator his career spans high school to graduate school teaching; he has taught in a two-year college, four-year private liberal arts colleges, and at public universities.

Stanitski has been active in the ACS. He was Chair of the Division of Chemical Education (2001), served on the ACS Exams Institute's Chemistry in Context and the General-Organic-Biochemistry examinations committees, and has been a Councilor for the Division of Chemical Education, Inc., as well as an ACS College Chemistry Consultants Service consultant, and an ACS Career Consultant. He has directed numerous ChemCom workshops, is an NSF proposal reviewer, was a member of the Chemical Heritage Foundation Education Advisory Board, is a national Chautauqua course instructor, Project Kaleidoscope lecturer, and has received several major NSF grants in science and chemical education.

An active writer, Stanitski has co-authored chemistry textbooks for a wide variety of students: general chemistry -- Chemical Principles, The Chemical World: Concepts and Applications 2ed, and Chemistry: The Molecular Science; allied-health science students -- Chemistry for Health-Related Sciences: Concepts and Correlations; and non-science majors -- Chemistry in Context: Applying Chemistry to Society, an ACS-sponsored project. He was editor of the Chemistry in the Community (ChemCom) third edition textbook, an ACS high school chemistry text.

He has received the Gustav Ohaus-National Science Teachers Association Award for Creative Innovations in College Science Teaching (1973), the Thomas R. Branch Award for Teaching Excellence (1977) and the Samuel Nelson Gray Distinguished Professor Award (1983) from Randolph-Macon College, and the CATALYST National Award for Excellence in Chemistry Teaching, Chemical Manufacturers Association (2000).

Lucy Pryde Eubanks

Lucy T. Pryde Eubanks is a Lecturer in Chemistry at Clemson University (SC) and serves as the Associate Director of the American Chemical Society's Division of Chemical Education Examinations Institute. She received a B.A. degree in chemistry from Mount Holyoke College and a MA and MSNS degree from Seattle University. She has taught at Southwestern College (CA), Grossmont College (CA), and Mesa College (CA), as well as several high schools.

Eubanks is active in the ACS, serving as chair of the ACS Division of Chemical Education, Inc. (DivCHED) in 1992, and as vice-chair of the program committee and member of organizing committee for the 14th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education. In addition, her service to DivCHED includes: chair of Personnel and Nominations Committee and chair of the Program Committee. Presently she serves as the DivCHED liaison to ACS Divisional Officers Caucus, and is secretary of the Caucus. She recently was named to the College Chemistry Consulting Service, C3S. She is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Center for Science in the Public Interest, National Science Teachers Association, South Carolina Association of Chemistry Teachers, South Carolina Science Council, and South Carolina Science Supervisors Association.

Eubanks is co-Principal Investigator on several funded activities involving teacher training and assessment, including South Carolina Exemplary Faculty for Advanced Technological Education, National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant, 1995-1998. She has served on the advisory committee of the SC Center of Excellence for Advanced Technological Education, NSF Grant, 1995-2002. She also was co-PI for Chemistry Computer-Based Objective Assessment Tasks (ComBOAT Project), NSF Grant, 1993-1996. Her current research interests include computer-based assessment, small-scale chemistry, and alternative assessment strategies.

Eubanks' honors and awards include Visiting Scientist of the Year (1993), ACS Western Connecticut Section; Southwestern College Award, "Woman of Distinction," 1985; and National CATALYST Award for Excellence in Community College Chemistry Teaching, Chemical Manufacturers Association, 1984.

Catherine Middlecamp

Catherine Middlecamp is the Director of the Chemistry Learning Center and a Distinguished Faculty Associate at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She teaches general chemistry for liberal arts students, a graduate seminar entitled "The Teaching of Chemistry", and a new course on uranium mining and the Navajo people. She did her undergraduate studies at Cornell University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded a Danforth Fellowship to earn her doctorate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Over the past 20 years, she has designed, supervised and taught in a number of programs for students under-represented in the sciences, both collegiate and pre-collegiate. She is co-author of the book, How to Survive and Even Excel in General Chemistry, and has contributed chapters to several books on women in science. In 1998, she was elected a member of the UW-Madison Teaching Academy. She has served as a mentor and speaker each year since 1997 at the University of Wisconsin System Women in Science Curriculum Reform Institute. She currently is a Senior Scholar for Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) project at the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and also serves on several DivCHED committees, including the Program Committee and the Committee for Computers in Chemical Education.

Norbert Pienta

Norbert Pienta is an Associate Professor and General Chemistry Coordinator at the University of Iowa. He received his B.S. from the University of Rochester and his PhD. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pittsburgh and Duke University. Dr. Pienta was previously associated with the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His research is in chemical education treating the teaching and learning of chemistry as an area of study and investigation. His interests include learning materials for non-science majors and the use of technology in providing useful tools for student learning as well as tools for assessment and evaluation for instructors in large enrollment courses. To this point, these tools include a math and calculator skills tutorial for general chemistry and an Internet-based placement exam for entering students. Dr. Pienta is also using available skill building webware as graded homework, and developing self-assessment software/webware with diagnostic help for students in general and organic chemistry.

Wilmer Stratton

Wilmer Stratton received an A. B. degree in chemistry from Earlham College (IN) in 1954 and a Ph.D. degree in inorganic chemistry from the Ohio State University in 1958. From 1959 to 1997 he was on the faculty of Earlham College, a position from which he retired in 1997. His teaching interests included analytical, inorganic, and physical chemistry. He was also one of the early pioneers in teaching environmental chemistry courses, a subject he taught regularly for over 20 years. His research interests have been in the general areas of inorganic, analytical, and environmental chemistry. For a number of years, he and his students did research on new metal coordination compounds. For the last 15 years he has been primarily interested in environmental studies of various kinds. His current interest is mercury in the environment, especially atmospheric studies of mercury speciation, an area in which he is one of the national experts.

Stratton has had a long interest in curricular innovation in chemistry, including development of new laboratory experiments. He has published extensively and has given many talks at national and regional meetings. He was a member of the original writing team for ACS's Chemistry in Context. For the second edition of Chemistry in Context, he was the lead author for the accompanying Laboratory Manual. For the third edition, he had responsibility for the Laboratory Manual as well as serving as a member of the editorial team for the text. For the current fourth edition, he again has responsibility for the Laboratory Manual.