Julia speaks to Barb Termaat, Executive director of Newton's Road, in Traverse city Michigan to discuss bringing STEM into the northwestern Michigan community. Credits:Host: Julia WinterSpecial Guest: Barb TermaatProducer: Typhany JonesEditor/L

S2E7 | Creating Opportunity with Accessibility

Mar 26th, 2021 20m 45s

In this episode Julia talks with Dr. Henry "Hoby" Wedler and Professor Dean Tantillo about their experience adding a new vision to learning at UC Davis and how it has affected their work outside of the classroom. Credits:Host: Julia WinterSpec

S2E6 | Teaching with a STEM Mindset

Mar 10th, 2021 20m 43s

Join Julia as she talks with Dr. Michelle Thompson, an instructor at the Effingham College and Career Academy, who uses a STEM-focused curriculum in her classroom. Dr. Thompson also gives insight into her students involvement in the WestEd stud

S2E5 | Behind the Scenes at CERP

Dec 1st, 2020 19m 7s

Join Julia as she talks with Michael Seery the outgoing editor-in-chief of the Chemistry Education Research and Practice journal and Gwen Lawrie the incoming editor-in-chief. They go into the submission and review process of research papers. Cr

S2E4 | Learning Beyond Borders

Nov 4th, 2020 20m 45s

How can two classrooms in different countries work together to improve teaching chemistry? Listen as Julia discusses collaborative education with chemistry professors, Brett McCollum of Mount Royal University in Calgary Canada, and Layne Morsc

S2E3 | Growing A Chemistry Community

Oct 14th, 2020 19m 16s

Britland Dekorver, a Professor of Chemistry at Grand Valley State University, catches up with Julia about the popular Facebook community she founded and grew. They discuss how it helps teachers and students, especially during this time where re

S2E2 | Student Perspective on Online Education

Sep 8th, 2020 20m 48s

What ideas do students have for online education?We talk with Tanjot Grewal of McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario) and Nicole Kada of Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) about the student perspective about the coming online semester.

S2E1 | Creating Community in Online Learning

Sep 1st, 2020 20m 11s

Julia talks with Bellevue College faculty member Jennie Kong Mayer and her organic chemistry student Rizmina Lathiff about features she used with Zoom to make her online class more interactive. We caught up with Jennie after a post in ChemEdX.o

S1E11 | Adapting Labs for a New Norm

Aug 25th, 2020 23m 11s

Lab flow was designed to wrap digital curriculum around the traditional lab, wet bench experience that we're all trying to give students, which I think it's very important. But starting in April, when schools started closing down, we had a numb

S1E10 | The Wonders of Specs Grading with Renee Link

Aug 4th, 2020 24m 53s

In today's episode, Julia Winter sits down with Professor Renee Link of UC Irvine and talks about how she implemented the Specs Grading method in teaching a 1000-student organic chemistry lab course. Find out what Specs grading is, and why it c

S1E9 | The Unforeseen Path: How A Blind Student Navigates Chemistry

Apr 28th, 2020 15m 27s

"Welcome to Alchemie's Podcast "Ideas that Matter," where we meet people making a difference in Education. In today's episode, Julia Winter talks to Nicole Kada, a Senior at Wayne State University, graduating with her bachelor's degree in Nutri

S1E8 | The Devil is in the Details

Apr 28th, 2020 22m 55s

In today's episode, Julia Winter sits down with Florida Institute of Technology professor Roberto Peverati to discuss computational chemistry labs.Read the corresponding blog post: http://www.alchem.ie/blog/the-devil-in-the-details-a-new-lab-cl

S1E7 | Project-based learning at UCLA

Apr 9th, 2020 32m 22s

Alex Spokoyny and his fourth-year graduate student Mary Grumbles are today’s guests to discuss undergraduate chemistry projects where students produce Wikipedia entries for inorganic chemistry topics and a communication project in a non-major’s

S1E6 | Center on Student Growth

Mar 18th, 2020 23m 58s

In today's episode, Julia Winter sits down with the University of Ottawa’s Professor Alison Flynn to discuss chemistry education research and the growth and goals needed to empower students through their journey in their careers in chemistry.Re

S1E5 | Connecting with Chemistry

Mar 18th, 2020 23m 3s

A conversation with Andy Brunning of Compound Interest and how his infographics have made an impact. Compound Interest is a site that aims to take a closer look at the chemical compounds we come across on a day-to-day basis, explaining them wit

S1E4 | Chemix: Lab Diagrams made easy

Feb 12th, 2020 15m 45s

Julia Winter sits down with Hai Mac the creator of Chemix an online editor for drawing science lab diagrams and school experiment apparatus.Read the corresponding blog post: https://www.alchem.ie/blog/chemix-lab-diagrams-made-easyCreditsHost: J

S1E3 | Magical and Malleable Research Stories

Feb 11th, 2020 29m 27s

Join Julia Winter and Marshall Brennan as they discuss the ChemRxiv platform and how it is changing the way papers get peer-reviewed.Read the corresponding blog post: https://www.alchem.ie/blog/magical-and-malleable-research-stories-the-chemrxi

S1E2 | A Growth Mindset for ChemEd Research

Feb 6th, 2020 22m 56s

Julia sits down with University of Michigan professor, Ginger Shultz, and discusses the importance of a growth mindset when tackling new research projects. You are going to want to hear this.Read the corresponding blog post: https://www.alchem.

S1E1 | Lab Talk with Jamie Caras

Feb 5th, 2020 29m 15s

The Future of Chemistry Julia Winter sits down with Jamie Caras to discuss the future of chemistry labs, STEM education, and how important student confidence is to succeed in the science world. This was a great discussion. You want to hear thi

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