Professor of Chemistry Karen Brewer presented at the 233rd American Chemical Society National Meeting in Chicago (Feb. 26–29) at the Division of Chemical Education Poster Session. Professor Brewer's poster titled "Materials Chemistry Projects in Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry" presented the implementation of multi-week projects in the laboratory program for the spring semester course Inorganic and Materials Chemistry 265. The individual projects range from the synthesis and properties of ferrofluids to the preparation of cadmium selenide quantum dot nanocrystals to the synthesis and magnetic properties of rare earth iron garnets. Support for the project to introduce new experiments into the inorganic chemistry lab was provided by a Dreyfus Foundation Special Grant in the Chemical Sciences.
