Ideas That Matter

"Welcome to Alchemie's Podcast "Ideas that Matter," where we meet people making a difference in Education. In today's episode, Julia Winter talks to Nicole Kada, a Senior at Wayne State University, graduating with her bachelor's degree in Nutrition and Food Science to discuss her journey navigating through organic chemistry as a visually impaired student.

In today's episode, Julia Winter sits down with Florida Institute of Technology professor Roberto Peverati to discuss computational chemistry labs.

Alex Spokoyny and his fourth-year graduate student Mary Grumbles are today’s guests to discuss undergraduate chemistry projects where students produce Wikipedia entries for inorganic chemistry topics and a communication project in a non-major’s introductory chemistry course where students refute scientific“statements” made on Twitter.

In today's episode, Julia Winter sits down with the University of Ottawa’s Professor Alison Flynn to discuss chemistry education research and the growth and goals needed to empower students through their journey in their careers in chemistry.

Credits

A conversation with Andy Brunning of Compound Interest and how his infographics have made an impact. Compound Interest is a site that aims to take a closer look at the chemical compounds we come across on a day-to-day basis, explaining them with easy-to-understand graphics.

Julia Winter sits down with Hai Mac the creator of Chemix an online editor for drawing science lab diagrams and school experiment apparatus.

Read the corresponding blog post: https://www.alchem.ie/blog/chemix-lab-diagrams-made-easy

Join Julia Winter and Marshall Brennan as they discuss the ChemRxiv platform and how it is changing the way papers get peer-reviewed.

Julia sits down with University of Michigan professor, Ginger Shultz, and discusses the importance of a growth mindset when tackling new research projects. You are going to want to hear this.

The Future of Chemistry