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ChemStuff

http://center.acs.org/applications/cpt/asl/app_list_search.cfm

searchable by state, first letter of school name, and subdiscipline

http://employees.oneonta.edu/pencehe/

formerly at

http://webserver1.oneonta.edu/faculty/pencehe/
http://snyoneab.oneonta.edu/~pencehe/

When I was a kid, I always wanted my own neon sign, which might explain why my page looks the way it does. Harry has a section on the use of color in presentations. Wonder what he'd say about all this.... 

I got my answer: 

I would still suggest that your color selection may cause problems for some readers, but in the last estimate, I will also say what I say to my students who design sites, "What you do on your site is a reflection of your personality. Do what feels best to you!"

Harry has contributed several valuable papers to CONFCHEM on comparison of search engines as well as the use of color in web and classroom presentations.

http://www.accessexcellence.org/

site for health and bioscience teachers and students

http://www.chemheritage.org/

"The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) seeks to advance the heritage and public understanding of the chemical and molecular sciences by operating a historical research library; discovering and disseminating information about historical resources; encouraging research, scholarship, and popular writing; publishing historical materials; conducting oral histories; creating exhibits; and taking other appropriate steps to make known the achievements of chemical and molecular scientists and engineers and of related sciences, technologies, and industries."

truly a worthy mission

http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/

links to the history of chemistry -- and much, much more.

The History of Chemistry  1992 Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute

http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/chemistry/institutes/1992/

Bios with references of some of the great names in chemistry. And yes, it's true that they are almost all "dead white guys"

http://www.pafko.com/history//h_intro.html

A highly entertaining and informative introduction to the subject -- and as you can see,  I couldn't resist the little icons! The 9/25/00 v2.0 version of the entire site can be downloaded in .PDF format [1 Mb]. Definitely worth checking out!

http://www.tntech.edu/www/acad/hist/scitech.html

a very useful compilation

http://web.sbu.edu/chemistry/wier/index.html

Larry listed my "Molecular Heaven" page on his site without my even asking, so the least I can do is to return the favor. Under his "Clare 102" heading, Larry has some nice historical/conceptual presentations on matter, atoms, light, and electrons.

http://www.csc.fi/chem/gallery.phtml

containing spectacular visualization and animations in chemistry done at the Visualization and Animation Laboratory at CSC by the Visualization Group and groups at other locations.

http://www.scripps.edu/pub/goodsell/

lots of beautiful pictures from a master illustrator and links to articles containing them. Plan on spending some time here!

http://webexhibits.org/pigments/

I found this great site during a Google search for the structure of Prussian blue. Organized by pigment color, ths site gives overview, history, chemical name, formula, rotating 3-D model [non-Chime, unfortunately], crystal system, prep methods, links to Raman spectra, and other info for 42 paint pigments.

http://chemistry.miningco.com/science/chemistry/msub7.htm

Two pages with links to sources -- annoying popups, cookies, runtime error debug messages and frames and disguised URLs are the price you pay.  Contrast with the clean simplicity of using my site!

http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/GG/

all sorts of labelled diagrams that could come in useful

http://webserver1.oneonta.edu/faculty/pencehe/careers.html

valuable and useful advice to undergraduates planning a career,  in such areas as industry, graduate school, chemical engineering, life sciences, health professions, patent law, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals , materials science, patent law, environmental programs, food chemistry, forensic science, laboratory technician, textiles and fabrics , toxicology, and industrial hygiene. 

http://pdc.cvc.edu/ac/chem/

Virtually in its infancy! Designed primarily for CA community college instructors, but there are useful links here for others as well.

http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/chemweek.html

selection varies by associated course chosen

http://www.chemweek.com

news and links to other magazines

http://www.dotfinechem.com/webzine/a.htm

site being reconstructed, archives available

http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/it_lectures/poznan/

http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/it_lectures/poznan/slide10.html

discusses various animation programs with many useful examples. The image at left is taken from a QuickTime presentation of the Diels-Alder reaction.

http://www.geocities.com/le_chatelier_uk/

  weird!

http://www.sciencebase.com/ 

news articles

http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/

http://courses.ncsu.edu/ch.html

Links to the homepages of 18 chem courses and their faculty; many of these courses utilize WebCT and WebAssign; actual stuff available to outsiders varies widely, but it's worth checking out.

http://www.chem.rpi.edu/chemweb/new/index2.html

http://www.bus.lsu.edu/accounting/faculty/lcrumbley/study.htm

If, like me and a zillion other long-time teachers, you have experienced a progressive "dumbing down" in your student population over the years, you really ought to check out this paper -- a scholarly diatribe of 22 legal-size pages when printed out, with another 5 to print the 137 references cited. The paper is posted on the site of the "Society for a Return to Academic Standards."

http://www.chem.umd.edu/

http://www.chem.ucla.edu/

http://www.cm.utexas.edu/academic/courses.html

LOTS of courses with webpage info -- I've barely begun to explore this site, but the small sample I saw looked very promising!

Environmental

http://acd.ucar.edu/textbook/

This is the publisher's marketing/advertisement site, and allows you to view the table of contents, chapters 1 and 15 [including illustrations], and to order the book.

http://www.imsa.edu/edu/chemistry/Electromagnetic%20Rays%20&%20Our%20Atmosphere/sld001.htm

a brief PowerPoint-type presentation

http://www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/tour/index.html

 This excellently-illustrated site explains the origin and progression of the phenomenon and goes into the research methods being used. Suitable for high school, college, or intelligent layman use. Thanks to Dr. Glenn Carver for permission to use the animated image at left.

http://environmentalchemistry.com/

environmental news, links, and a really nice periodic table await you.

http://home.inreach.com/halhed/envchem.htm

lots of useful links

http://www.ched-ccce.org/confchem/2001/b/kleppinger/envedrespaper2.html

Beth has done such a good job of culling these resources that I took the easy way out instead of setting up another page for environmental resources. Organized into four basic categories: Webliographies, Organizations and Agencies, Content-Rich Material, and Teaching Resources. Submitted as a paper to the Summer 2001 CONFCHEM

http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/201.html#I

course syllabus and many useful environmental links

http://www.mbari.org/chemsensor/sensorhome.htm

this site focuses primarily on what [and how] MBARI is doing, but now features a periodic table of oceanic chemistry. You might want to check out their main page, too.

http://www.sbu.ac.uk/water/

This site provides an excellent and extensive background on the physical and chemical characteristics of the quintessential elixir. Has COW and Chime depictions of many molecular arrangements. For a different perspective, you might also want to check out Steve Lower's AquaScams site in the pseudoscience section.

http://wow.nrri.umn.edu/wow/index.html

specializing in limnology

http://mc2.cchem.berkeley.edu/index.html

http://mc2.cchem.berkeley.edu/modules/index.html

an NSF-funded program to restructure the undergraduate chemistry curriculum, for which they have developed a substantial number of excellent teaching modules, many of which have an environmental orientation, and several JAVA applets. The list of modules available here is not the same as the list at Beloit.

http://www.anachem.umu.se/cgi-bin/pointer.exe?MattersOfPublicConcern

http://www.chem.umu.se/cgi-bin/pointer.exe?MattersOfPublicConcern 

  links to a number of sites

http://www.weru.ksu.edu/

Well, Dorothy, where better to locate it?  Has good background info and links.

http://www.cryotech.com/

makers of environmentally-friendly deicing agents

http://www.epa.gov/

another site loaded with info, news, laws and regulations, and more -- all of it affecting YOU!  EPA is one of the relatively few great accomplishments of the Nixon administration.  Will the Bush-leaguers "remediate" it into total impotence or death? Stay tuned!  

(I can already sense hordes of male readers thinking  "What do you mean, 'or'? -- impotence IS death!")

http://www.calepa.ca.gov/

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/wildseed/tamuhort.html

Photos provided by Wildseed Farms
25 Wildflower Hills  PO BOX 3000
Fredericksburg, TX. 78624
800-848-0078  Fax 830-990-8090

http://www.wildseedfarms.com/

photo album, growing tips, links to other sites, and much more

http://www.henriettesherbal.com
http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/index.html

4300 pictures of plants, an extensive database, links to other sites, and much more -- a winner!

http://www.vth.colostate.edu/poisonous_plants/

botanical and toxicological information in a searchable, beautifully illustrated field-handbook format

http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/index.html
http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/plants.html

searchable database and links to other poisonous plant sites

FOOD

http://fscn.che.umn.edu/Ted_Labuza/tpl.html

It's incredibly fascinating seeing how P-Chem can be applied to all sorts of things. Ted has a lot of PowerPoint™ material here.

http://courses.umn.edu/fscn.html

http://fscn.che.umn.edu/Ted_Labuza/Papers/tpl_papers.htm

http://www.foodsci.purdue.edu/

Ted Labuza referred a Chemed-L questioner to this site as well as his own...

http://www.ift.org/

feast on this one!

http://www.efph.purdue.edu/pizza/

An innovative and creative introduction to nutrition and food science with your choice of "left-brain" and "right-brain" interfaces. Pizza was chosen because it appeals to the great majority of teens and it contains representatives of all the major food groups. Coverage includes historical info, too. Funded by a grant from IFT.

http://www.peepresearch.org/

In which the methods of science are [mis?]employed to torture a poor, helpless piece of candy in the hope of gaining greater understanding of their physical properties, structure, bonding, etc. Some good fun here...

http://www.henriettesherbal.com
http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/index.html

4300 pictures of plants, an extensive database, links to other sites, and much more -- a winner!

http://www.vth.colostate.edu/poisonous_plants/

botanical and toxicological information in a searchable, beautifully illustrated field-handbook format

http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/index.html
http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/plants.html

searchable database and links to other poisonous plant sites

Pseudo

H₂O dot con  by Steve Lower (retired) Simon Fraser U 

http://www.chem1.com/CQ/

Formerly AquaScams / AquaSchemes

  Lots of info on water chemistry and pseudoscience

http://www.sbu.ac.uk/water/

 I put this entry here just to have it handy with the aqueologous entries immediately above and below this one. It's not about pseudoscience, it's REAL science!

http://www.dhmo.org/

beware this dangerous chemical that's turning up everywhere!

   http://www.princeton.edu/~lehmann/BadChemistry.html       

let's teach it right!

http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html       

let's teach it right!

http://www.spectrometer.org/path/path.html

an illustration of the scientific method at work

http://www.chem1.com/acad/sci/pseudosci.html

a detailed discussion on pseudoscience with many useful web references

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/humor.htm

and  Donald Simanek's home page at LHUP

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/home.htm

and his "Back Page" on Science Fraud and Pseudoscience

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/testing.htm

and his page on Skepticism and Pseudoscience

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/skeptic.htm

Don is a coauthor of the book shown at left, due out in October 2001. The four pages listed are all very useful as well as amusing. Another kindred spirit!

People

http://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/topics/Chemists.html

VERY brief but still useful bios of 95+ chemists; site also has bios of folks in less-exalted areas of science

The History of Chemistry  1992 Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute

http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/chemistry/institutes/1992/

Bios with references of some of the great names in chemistry. And yes, it's true that they are almost all "dead white guys"

http://oak.cc.conncoll.edu/~mzim/dead.html

catchy title, right? we all need a reminder that science is a collective enterprise to which people of all backgrounds, races, genders, and cultures  have contributed. Has links to the next two sites.

http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/faces.html

pictures of scientists present and past

"We are all Africans -- some of us just left a little bit earlier than others." RWR

http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html

you will learn that  those who think the entry of women into science began with Mme. Curie are totally out of date !

http://www.awis.org/

now celebrating its 30th year. membership is open to ALL who support women in science!

http://www.mentornet.net

an online mentoring program that pairs community college, undergraduate, and graduate women in engineering, science, technology, and mathematics with engineers and scientists working in industry and academics.

http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/

links to the history of chemistry -- and much, much more.

http://webserver.lemoyne.edu/faculty/giunta/week.html

date-searchable links to chemical events and the people involved in them

http://www.todayinsci.com/ 

formerly at  http://todayinsci.tripod.com/

Indexed by dates, has short bios of scientists with birthdates  and scientific events with anniversary on the selected day

http://www.chemheritage.org/

"The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) seeks to advance the heritage and public understanding of the chemical and molecular sciences by operating a historical research library; discovering and disseminating information about historical resources; encouraging research, scholarship, and popular writing; publishing historical materials; conducting oral histories; creating exhibits; and taking other appropriate steps to make known the achievements of chemical and molecular scientists and engineers and of related sciences, technologies, and industries."

truly a worthy mission

http://www.mbayreggaefest.net/

in a previous self-incarnation in the early '90s, I had a spectacularly unsuccessful -- but fabulously fun --  stint as "Sonix I-Ron-X," a "selector" [that's a DJ, to all the Yankee crew] at a Jamaican night club in the Bronx.
Mi ah de artical chemist in de place!

http://www.montereybaypoetry.com/

another worthy local endeavor

http://www.montereysymphony.org/

I'm a subscriber and a donor

http://www.montereyjazzfestival.org/

beautiful Monterey -- we've got it all!

http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/

Listings for each laureate since 1901. For recent winners, there is the press release, illustrated presentation, autobiography, video, Nobel diploma, prize award ceremony, and links to their own web pages and other resources.

http://www.amasci.com/billb.html

I sense a kindred spirit here -- from the black-background, high-color page itself to its self-mocking commentary to its excellent content. Bill runs the Science Hobbyist site, available by shortening the URL above and listed on my "Experiments" page.

http://www.eclipse.net/~pankuch/

Atomic and molecular animations, a list of museums, and various other stuff. Also the home of the newsletter Using Computers in Chemical Education

http://www.raritanval.edu/departments/Science/Paul.html

Paul teaches organic chemistry and has some neat stuff at his site -- and my "Molecular Heaven"  page is listed in his links!

http://www.mpcfaculty.net/ron_rinehart/ronspage.html

and the really horrible "wizard" version at

http://www.mpc.edu/ron_rinehart
http://www.mpc.edu/default.asp?obj=U283

Finally got a better pic! -- still have to put together a better page! 
You're not missing much!