{"id":345,"date":"2012-01-05T19:41:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T19:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/?p=345"},"modified":"2016-06-14T15:08:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T15:08:14","slug":"new-nsf-tues-program-course-in-chemical-ecology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/2012\/01\/05\/new-nsf-tues-program-course-in-chemical-ecology\/","title":{"rendered":"New NSF-TUES program course in Chemical Ecology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/2012\/08\/14\/improved-facilities-on-the-horizon\/titleccli-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-111\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/files\/2012\/08\/titleCCLI.jpg\" alt=\"titleCCLI\" width=\"960\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/files\/2012\/08\/titleCCLI.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/files\/2012\/08\/titleCCLI-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve recently completed our second year of an experimental problem-based learning course in Chemical Ecology with a class of 24 upper-level chemistry and biology students at Dickinson. \u00a0The course encourages students with diverse interests to work together to solve complex problems involving the extraction and identification of natural products &#8211; such as toxins, attractants, and other chemical cues &#8211; and to explore their roles in nature. \u00a0The course includes intensive training on analytical instruments such as spectrophotometers, HPLC and GC-MS. \u00a0 The development of this course is funded by an award from the NSF-TUES program. \u00a0Our preliminary assessment of the program&#8217;s progress will be detailed in an upcoming ACS article:\u00a0<strong>Witter A, Arnold T\u00a0(2013) <em>Nature&#8217;s Medicine Cabinet: An Interdisciplinary Course Designed To Enhance Student Learning by Investigating the Ecological Roles of Natural Products.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve recently completed our second year of an experimental problem-based learning course in Chemical Ecology with a class of 24 upper-level chemistry and biology students at Dickinson. \u00a0The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}