New Semester — Part 2, October

"What a semester I'm having, thanks to one particular student!"

I live in a warm part of the country so when October rolled around, and pumpkin spice lattes appeared on the menu at the campus coffee shops, the temperature was still in the 80s and the weather was beautiful. It...

New Semester – Part 1, September

"A student in my organic chemistry class caught my attention..."

I’m a chemistry professor at a large university, already over halfway through a busy fall semester, and what a semester I’m having! Fall is when I teach Organic Chemistry 1 to a couple of hundred undergraduate students, ranging from the...