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Message from Professor Ryoji Noyori, 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

"One of the reasons why science is not so popular among young people is that science is treated much too objectively, which ends in disregard of the people involved. Humans are interested in humans.[...] Scientific research is by all means human. I hope teachers will tell students about this aspect of science. One of the reasons for the lack of popularity of science is "the absence of humanity", ... [full interview]

News and Other publications

- Save the dates 3-8 August 2008 for the 20th International Conference on Chemical Education (20th ICCE) which will be held in Mauritius under the theme "Chemistry in the Information & Communications Technologies Age".
> www.uom.ac.mu/20icce.htm (& download brochure in pdf)

- Chemistry According to Kids - 2006 poster competition, by Lida Shoen
Chem. Int. Jan-Feb 2007, pp. 4-7

- Chemistry Education for Humanity - report of the 19th ICCE, by Morton Z. Hofman
Chem. Int. Jan-Feb 2007, p. 32

- Education, Outreach, and Codes of Conduct to Further the Norms and Obligations of the CWC, by Graham S. Pearson and Peter Mahaffy
Pure Appl. Chem. 78(11), 2169-2192, 2006

- www.scienceacross.org

- wwwcsi.unian.it/educa, Cardellini 's website devoted to effective teaching for meaningful learning.

- www.nsta.org - The National Science Teachers Association announces the availability of a new International e-Membership for individual science educators

Last updated 24.01.07