Workshops and Short Courses

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Virtual Environmental Workshop by Bassam Shakhashiri and Jerry Bell

The Earth’s climate is changing, and we are responsible.

It is important to understand the changes—how our activities cause them, and the responsibility each of us has to consider ways we might act to help lessen the disruption. This understanding can start with your students, in your classroom. Climate disruption and basic climate science are complicated but based on fundamental concepts from our more familiar sciences. You can use climate science concepts as a context for the topics already in your courses. You can use the concepts in your curriculum as a context for climate science topics. The examples chosen to illustrate this approach for this on-line workshop include the classroom topics of density, buoyancy, acid-base chemistry, and precipitation, partnered with climate concepts of global warming, sea level rise, ocean acidification, and increasing anthropogenic atmospheric carbon dioxide. These examples are developed by analysis of demonstrations adapted from hands-on activities included in the Climate Science Workbook available at the www.scifun.org website. The workshop will also explore how incorporating climate science in your classroom extends to community effects, and to your vital role as an exemplar empowered by understanding.
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Chemistry Teacher Workshop

This workshop is specifically tailored for the high school and middle school chemistry teachers. The 4-5 hour workshop will include several brief presentations, a variety of hands-on activities, and provide an opportunity to network and share ideas in the southern AZ chemistry teacher community. It is our hope that this workshop would be a refreshing opportunity for meaningful professional development for the teachers, and a chance to engage in all things chemistry!
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Mining Short Course

The Chemistry of Metal Recovery using Solvent Extraction
Taught by Dr. Gary Kordosky
 
This short course will present an overview of metal recovery using solvent extraction including the various types of solvent extraction reagents.  A detailed discussion of copper solvent extraction, the largest application of solvent extraction in the world, follows.  Other commercial applications of solvent extraction to be discussed include Ni, Co, U, and Pd.  Solvent extraction equipment and problems often encountered in solvent extraction plants are also included.
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Safety Workshop: Tools for Building a Safety Culture in Your Lab

Ralph Stuart will be running the workshop. He is the head organizer at DCHAS and he will have a co-presenter, Taysir Bader, who is the co-president of the Lab Safety Teams at the University of Minnesota Chemistry Department. This workshop will describe emerging tools that help answer questions such as:
- What is a safety culture?
- How does risk assessment fit into the laboratory setting?
- What the opportunities and challenges of organizing for laboratory safety?
- How can we assess where our safety culture is today and determine what direction it is moving in?

The workshop will have a $25 registration fee and we are setting a cap for around 25 attendees. Safety programming will be immersed throughout the whole schedule for the RMRM, specifically through streaming safety resources/videos.
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Finding Yourself: Identifying a Career that Matches your Strengths and Values

This workshop helps individuals to identify their values that are important for a job and then helps them see the difference in a job in industry, education, government and self employment. This workshop is to help young chemists see a path that may be best for them and even get information and places to look for current job openings.
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Setting Yourself Up for Success in an Interview

Breaks down the interview process into navigable stages.  Participants will also learn how to identify critical performance factors from job announcement media.  The course will also help interviewees to develop a plan to relate their experience and values to the job requirements and organization values of their potential employers.
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Science Advocacy Workshop

An interactive training workshop on what science advocacy is and how to get started.

• What does science advocacy look like?
• Today's relevant science topics
• Effective strategies for talking to lawmakers or the media
• Developing and practicing your story and pitch
• Deciding what action to take
  

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How to Write a Resume: Reworking and Revamping for your Future Success

This workshop is designed to help students and young professional build and finalize a resume for a job in the field of chemistry.
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Fostering Innovation 

Gain the understanding and tools to help you tap into your innovation style and learn how to stimulate innovative thinking among team members and colleagues.
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Leading without Authority

Learn how to gain cooperation without formal authority and motivate others to accomplish important goals.
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Engaging Organic Chemistry Students Using an Active Learning Process

In this workshop, you will gain hands-on experience using an innovative and objectively assessed method for improving student engagement and true learning. These teaching techniques help organic chemistry students deeply understand essential concepts and build analysis skills. By learning and using these techniques, your students will be better able to work organic reactions, retain information in long term memory, seamlessly correlate concepts, and apply information and analysis skills to newly encountered situations. In addition, your students will become much more proficient at working with complex ideas, engage as life-long learners, interpret new discoveries, tackle new questions in research, and apply organic chemistry to other disciplines.
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