I.O.N.i.C. goes hard-copy

A few days ago, I posted a picture of VIPEr tattoos, a physical manifestation of IONiC, the Inorganic Online Network of Inorganic Chemists started by Maggie Geselbracht and several collaborators across the nation. It seems, though, that a merely online presence wasn’t enough for this lot. Maggie, her six IONiC collaborators, and Ethan Benatan, Reed’s director of Computer User Services and the technical guru for the VIPEr-IONiC project, have gone hard-copy and published an article in the January 2009 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education (JCE, 2009, 86(1), 123) titled, “IONiC: A Cyber-Enabled Community of Practice for Improving Inorganic Chemical Education“.