Congratulations to Samantha Houchlei @sam_houch and Keenan Noyes Keenan Noyes passed your candidacy exams - onward to the Ph.D.!

Congratulations to Ryan Stowe @Rynstowe - just accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin (Madison).

Congratulations to Dr. Christopher Minter! Well done Chris (and enjoy your belated honeymoon in Europe)

A fond farewell to Aishling Flaherty Aishling Flaherty - we are really going to miss you. You are going to do great things!

A Cooper group reunion at the recent Chem Ed GRC (Better posted late than never)

A fond farewell to Kinsey Bain @kinseybain We are sad to see you go! Congratulations on your new position with the Secret Service!

Congratulations to Olivia Crandell Olivia Crandell - corresponding author on a new publication pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… "Arrows on the page are not a good gauge"

Meet Dr. Olivia Crandell. Successfully defended her dissertation on Zoom! She did a wonderful job. Thanks to all who attended. Olivia celebrates with pizza and a daiquiri

Congratulations to Keenan Noyes Keenan Noyes first graduate student EVER to receive the MSU Mentor of the Year Award! natsci.msu.edu/news/ph-d-chem…

Visit #STEMvideohall May 5-12 to view videos of the latest federally funded projects to transform #STEM! While you're there, please vote for our video about the ongoing STEM gateway transformation at Michigan State stemforall2020.videohall.com/p/1836

New podcast explores the extension of three-dimensional learning to higher education. mmslnetwork.wordpress.com/2021/03/02/new… via JREmmerling

We were honored to host a seminar from Dr. Nicole Graulich @nik_kola82 and Julia Eckhard @JuliaEckhard on their use of instructors' framing of the elaborateness needed for mechanistic explanations in organic chemistry. Thank you for sharing your work with us!

We had a great seminar from Dr. Alena Moon Alena Moon today, discussing students' thinking about light-matter interactions and the photoelectric effect. Thank you for sharing your work with us!

Yesterday we said a sad farewell to Liz Day @ElizDayChem - who is off to her new life as Assistant Professor of Chemistry at UTEP. We are going to miss you so much!

Congratulations to Ryan Bowen on his recent paper: Grading on a Curve as a Systemic Issue of Equity in Chemistry Education pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Congratulations to Samantha Houchlei and Rozzie Bloch on their recent paper: Mechanisms, Models, and Explanations pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

The kid’s homework assignment was to draw what a scientist looks like. Why have 1 idea when you can have 6? Thus, what a scientist looks like, a thread. First up: chemist (1/6)

Congratulations! Dr. Keenan Noyes

Congratulations Dr. Samantha Houchlei!

An amazing day for science education at MSU as Melanie Cooper is honored with a Journal of Chemical Education Festschrift! pubs.acs.org/page/jceda8/vi… In an introduction titled "Driving Change by Inspiring Others," Sonia Underwood writes: