Two science professors have cooked up a way for distance-education students to fulfill their science-lab requirements -- by turning their kitchens into chemistry labs. The professors say their ...

When the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile sent students home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Fernán Federici needed to find a new way to teach his biochemistry lab course. Using open-source ...

As the undergraduate chemistry community prepares for the fall and beyond, we have opportunities to better utilize online laboratory experiences. This involves considering learning goals and outcomes ...

A Brigham Young University faculty member has found a way for students to get hands-on chemistry experience without actually putting their hands on any chemicals. The students work with computer ...

Andrea Adeusi wanted to be a biochemistry major and, eventually, a doctor. So she registered for classes accordingly when she began as a student at Rutgers University. But then family issues got in ...

This semester Lyndsay Munro, teaching professor and general chemistry coordinator, introduced a new assignment in her chemical synthesis laboratory course. The assignment was to build a model of a ...

Chemistry lab courses require significant investments and resources. As a consequence, some students, instructors and administrators question the labs’ value, particularly for students not majoring in ...

Walter Lewin is a professor of physics emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. May 6, 2012 Students who take these courses online should be offered some kind of certificate -- call it a ...