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 chemical structure using resources from the University Libraries’ DeLaMare (DLM) Science and Engineering library’s Makerspace, and Munro said that assignment was a game-changer for her students.
Munro teaches a chemical synthesis lab course for senior chemistry majors that complements advanced inorganic chemistry lectures.
“It introduces a lot of advanced techniques that students haven’t seen before, and it introduces a lot of teamwork that they haven’t really had to do before,” Munro said.
In the chemistry labs students took prior to the chemical synthesis lab the students are given a very straightforward procedure, warned of the hazards and instructed step-by-step in how to get…
