Chem 201 Archive – Alan Shusterman

Category: Class schedule

  • Office Hours (tent.) for Fall '09

    40 of you responded to my Doodle poll and the results were really helpful. I am going to try out the following as office hours for this semester:

    • Tues, 4-5:30* PM (look for me in the o chem lab as well as in my office)
    • Wed, 10-12 AM
    • Fri, 2-4 PM

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  • Where is tonight's LAB lecture?

    As you know, our morning lectures have moved to the Psych auditorium.

    The Psych aud. is already committed to some other campus groups for Thursday evenings, so lab lectures will stay in Eliot 314, 6:10-7:00 Th.

    There is a llab lecture tonite featuring Kathleen Fisher, the director of Environmental Health & Safety and important information about next week’s lab schedule and safety procedures. See you tonite.

    Some helpful safety links (also available from the lab manual‘s table of contents)

  • Vote for Office Hours

    I think it’s totally impossible to find some office hours that will work for everyone. But I’m going to try and make myself as available as possible.

    Please tell me which of MY “free” hours are also YOUR “free” hours by using the Doodle poll link that I’ve emailed to each of you. (Note: I’m not posting the link here because I don’t want the whole world to vote. Just you.)

    Instructions for completing the poll:

    1. When you open the poll, you will see specific dates in September. Ignore these dates. Just pay attention to the DAYS OF THE WEEK.
    2. I have different hours free each day of the week. The hours are listed at the top of each column.
    3. Put one vote in each column according the usefulness of the hours to you.

    Thanks

  • Lecture Moves to Psych 105

    It was incredibly crowded in Eliot 314 this morning. So, even though I love the room (it’s where I started teaching back in 1989), the sunlight, the traffic sounds from Eliot circle, the difficulty of seeing the white boards from certain locations, and I know you love it too …

    we will meet for lecture (a true *lecture*) in the Psych auditorium Wed, Sep 2, 9 AM. See you in our new location.

  • Did You Lose Your Section?

    The Registrar’s Office has reassigned lab and/or conference sections for several students. Please check your class schedule this weekend to see whether it has been affected. If changes were made, they were made for a reason. You must attend your assigned section for now (note: labs do not meet this week), but there is a small chance (described below) that you can change your section again. (more…)

  • What's on deck for Fall '09?

    This site will be updated periodically during summer ’09. You can still look at the entire site, including all of the posts from ’08-09, but not much has changed yet. Major changes will get announced by adding to this post. If you have nothing better to do, check back every few days. [last changes posted 8/30/09, see below]

    Pre-registration for fall

    • You must complete the pre-requisites for Chem 201 before you can pre-register. That means if you took intro chem (the equivalent of Chem 101/102, lecture + lab) at another school this summer, you need to provide evidence of satisfactory completion of these courses to Reed’s Registrar’s Office before SOLAR will allow you to pre-register for Chem 201. This requirement may create some difficulties for summer students at PSU (and possibly elsewhere) because the PSU summer term ends on Wed, Aug 26 and pre-registration at Reed is Fri, Aug 28. If you bring me a signed note on Th-F, Aug 27-28, from your PSU chemistry instructor (email is also acceptable) that says you have completed PSU Chem 221/222/223 with grades of C- or better, I will allow you to pre-register for Chem 201 by overriding SOLAR. [posted 8/10/09]


    Changes

    Summer reading

    • “The Promise of a Cure: 20 Years and Counting”. The inability of gene therapy to deliver a treatment for cystic fibrosis and the role of conventional (small organic molecule) treatments is reviewed in this interesting, non-technical article (Science, 19 June 2009, 324, 1504-1507, listen to podcast interview with author Jennifer Couzin-Frankel).
    • “Antibiotics in Nature: Beyond Biological Warfare”. Scientists are challenging the conventional paradigm that fungi and bacteria use antibiotic molecules to kill off microbial competitors. According to these scientists, antibiotics could be used for communication and metabolism (Science, 26 June 2009, 324, 1637-1639).