Perhaps my most significant teaching innovation is that I printed a bunch of stickers of my cat to give students when they do well on quizzes.
Two students complimented me for responding to emails so quickly and all I could think is "wow, they really clocked me for being terminally online huh."
In chemistry we don't say "I love you." We say "I'm going to your 8am ACS talk," and I think that's beautiful.
Our department has a "pre-health chemistry" major (in addition to standard chemistry/biochemistry and ACS chemistry majors). Would chem grad admissions look unfavorably on "pre-health chemistry" vs. "chemistry" major on a student's transcript?
Excited to share my first preprint as corresponding author! We developed new experiments for second-year or advanced organic chemistry lab courses to teach column chromatography in a highly visual manner. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
My ride is here.
Some unsolicited advice to everybody in the US putting together syllabi for the Fall: Note the election and build flexibility and grace into the schedule. No exams or big assignments right before or after the election. Maybe have a distance learning day. It'll be difficult, no matter what happens.
Do you all know about RAILWAY CATS??? there is this cat cafe in (of course) Japan with a model train set that the cats just derail constantly and they just let them. Amazing
