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These
world wide web links will allow the reader to learn in much greater depth
about many of the subjects discussed here. Many of the links provided
throughout the main text of this web site are to practicing theoretical chemists'
home pages where readers will find even more exciting modern research in
theoretical chemistry. Links to societies dealing with theoretical chemistry
and to sources of educational and research material produced by theoretical
chemists are shown below. (See also Guidance to Students). An
absolutely wonderful site dedicated to getting children interested in science
appears under the name MOLECULARIUM .
Professor Shekhar Garde
of RPI is a prime mover in this important project. |
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Many students studying theoretical chemistry develop
substantial skills in computer and computational science. This sometimes
leads them to pursue careers in computer science and its applications. Here
is a good web site at which one can learn a lot about lots of degree programs
in computer science in case you are one of these students (http://computersciencedegrees.org/). Some of the best links to information about chemistry in general include: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/chem dex/ as well as a web site maintained
by an undergradate classmate of the author,the late Ron
Rinehart, who has many many links covering
a plethora of education-realted chemistry, biology,
physics, and other areas. A
wonderful site talking about polymers and a nice site explaining about glass materials
(some things you did not know) In
addition, Commodity
has a lot of links to interesting chemistry material Prof.
Bill Hase has collected several very nice animations
relating to chemical reactions. Dr.
Mark R. Leach has a wonderful web site for the publishing house called meta-synthesis,
which has many internal links dealing with a wide variety of chemical
education issues. I highly recommend it. |
The World Science web site is a wonderful place to find
information about up to date happenings in many areas of science. It reads
much like a news magazine but is focused on real science. The
field of public
health, including climate change and evironmental
science, is of much current interest and importance.Here is a good web link to learn more. Here
is a site that explains a lot about the chemistry that underlies the cleaning process. Here
is a nice site that has a lot of information about curriculum
materials and chemistry teaching. Two
excellent web sites that has a very large amount of information, all in web
format, about theoretical and computational chemistry can be found at the Encyclopedia
of Computational Chemistry and the University of Stuttgart's theory group. I also
encourage you to look at http://www.chem.utah.edu
for information about my department's education and research efforts in all
areas of chemistry. Unixl
provides
a wide range of chemistry resources including MSDS, instrumentation, and many
links of edcuational and research interest in
essentially all areas of chemistry. |
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A good
set of links to http://teachercertificationdegrees.com (this one even offers a route to
obtaining certification in education) http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/infob ahn/boc.html The simple,
common, and interesting molecules site shows many nice color
pictures of molecules that are important in daily life. Robert Gotwals has a
wonderful site dealing with how to introduce computational chemistry into the introductory chemistry curriculum. JChemEd.chem.wisc.edu is the web site for the Journal
of Chemical Education. This journal often contains software and information
about web links that relate to chemistry and science education. The have a software link
that provides excellent access to up to date software relating to education |
The National Science Foundation has, for over 30 years,
been supporting summer research by undergraduate students in chemistry. I
encourage you to seek information about the colleges and universities that currently
serve as Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU)
sites. You receive pay and a wonderful educational experience when you take
part. LUCID is learning
and understanding through computer-based interactive discovery UCLA's
list of links to other chemistry sites http://www.chem.ucla.edu/c
hempointers.html A web
source containing a wide variety of chemistry information is maintained by Steven Bachrach at Trinity University |
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An ever increasing number of web sites are appearing to offer
free and commercial software that can be of great interest and use to students
interested in theory and computer modeling. Several such links are offered
below.
Here is a link
to Online College's chemistry visualization
resources.
Here is a link
to a glossary
of organic chemistry terminology
The American
Chemical Society has a web site called ChemCenter that offers
information about jobs and allows one to link to various ACS published
journals. In addition, the ACS has a Committee called the Young Chemists Committee
that has a web link especially useful to those just starting careers as
chemists. The Society
of Chemical Industries also has a jobs-related site, as does The Association for Women in
Science and Engineering. The Medzilla
site allows job seekers to post and update their resumes for employers to
review.
In addition,
there is a very nice site highlighting the past and present and the hope for
the future of African
Americans in the Sciences.
The American
Chemical Society recently opened JobSpectrum.org
as a site for people seeking jobs in chemistry and for employers seeking to
hire such people.
The Computational Science
and Engineering web site has a large number of links to other sites
involving science, engineering, computers, etc. and is designed with students
in mind.
The Chemistry
Hypermedia Project at Virginia Tech provides a wide range of
chemical education software and links.
ChemMystery is a very useful link that
offers students a wide range of educational information and other links.
The E-skolar website has a lot of
very useful links to chemistry education and research sites.
The Web Elements and Periodic Table sites offer a large amount of information
about the elements in the periodic table.
Los Alamos Labs also has a very nice periodic
table link.
The World
Chemistry site is especially designed as a source for able students
between 16 and 19 years of age and for science educators.
The SciTech Daily Review
offers a frequently updated source of material (news, books, web links) of
current interest to society.
The Atomospheric Chemistry site is
a learning resource for anyone interested in gaining a general idea about this
field.
There are two
nice web links that offer information about 3-D structures of inorganic materials (bonding, zeolites,
superconductors, magnets, and minerals) and information about a wide variety of
organometallic
chemistry.
A site in Holland offers a wide
range of links to computational chemistry material, including classes that can
be scanned over the web.
The Scientific American
magazine is now also on the web.
First Principles Research offers computational chemistry
expertise to industry.
The SciCentral
web site is a wonderful gateway to many online resources grouped by science
area.
There is an Internet Journal of Chemistry
that contains research articles, including some in computational and
theoretical chemistry, on the web.
Chemcyclopedia is a web site that offers much
information about commercially available chemicals.
At the
University of Pittsburgh, there is a link that connects you to many nice sites
dealing with visualization in science.
The Chemical Computing Group
has many wonderful links and a wide variety of programs.
Professors Rob
Coalson and Ken Jordan at Pitt have two nice links
connected to classes they teach on Computational Science and on Modern Computational Chemistry.
Bryn Mawr College has a nice site that contains lots of mathematical modeling
of chemical phenomena.
PCOL is an on line source for teaching (and learning) physical
chemistry.
If you are
interested in surface science and how theory contributes to this area (which
also relates to the new field of nano-technology), I
suggest you look at the web site created by Kurt Kolasinski.
A large number
of advanced textbooks and links to other physics and chemistry sites can be
found on Professor
Hagen Kleinert's web page.
Professor J. C.
Baird of Brown University has a full on-line web course on quantum
chemistry that is well worth looking into.
A nice web
page called Online Masters Degree Programs offers many links to sites
on chemistry education, history of chemistry, courses and curriculum materials,
and more.
Some people
interested in chemistry, theoretical chemistry in particular, turn out to
really prefer computational sciences. Here is a link that offers much information about graduate
programs in that area and about job prospects for people with
expertise in computational sciences.