Below you can find several examples from the assignments we conduct in the classes I have taught at UCLA. The goal of these is to introduce students to the wider world around them and showcase better the connections between chemistry and modern society.
The First Annual Inorganic Scavenger Hunt took place this Winter, where UCLA undergraduate students enrolled in Chemistry 171 had an opportunity to identify a location, items or individual(s) related to inorganic chemistry and create a short documentary video describing their quest and findings.
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First Place - Porous Materials and Other Things
Third Place - Metal-Based Therapeutics
Professor's Choice Award - Silver in Photography, as Told by UCLA Football Players
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Second Place - The Hinkley Project
Third Place - Late Night Cooking Show
Other Submitted 2015 Scavenger Hunt Videos:
| Home-Made Battery | Inorganic Chemistry in Dentistry |
| Interview with a Radiologist | Chemicals in Photography | | Interview with a Dentist | Materials used in Dentistry | |"Under the Tread" | Catalytic Converter Chemistry | |Dental Radiology | Chemicals in Wine | Hinkley | | Dentistry and Inorganic Chemistry | Chemistry in Radiology | |Dental Amalgams | Homemade Battery | Potato Battery | | Porous Materials | California Winery | |
Project Wiki: Working in a team, students were asked to identify a topic related to inorganic chemistry that is currently missing from Wikipedia and subsequently write an original article on this subject. Articles were subsequently subjected to in-class peer-review and several edits. This project is done in a collaboration with Wiki Education Foundation (http://wikiedu.org).The list of the Winter 2015 articles can be found below (articles denoted as pending are in the process of being approved by the Wikipedia editors):
Lead Bismuthate by Sima Akhavan, Zakir Ali, Nicole Andrews and Terrence Sun
Silicon-Germanium Thermoelectrics in Space Exploration by Y. Asfaw, Parker Beatty, Ching Chan and C. Chatsirivichaikul
Lithium Hybrid Organic Battery by Tsai Cheah, Emily Duong, Mania Gharibian and Jeffrey Hong
Dodecaborate by Nhan Dinh, Angela Huang, Shaunt Kevork, Carmen Lau, Oriana Leekam
Carborane Super Acids by Jocelyn Lopez, Loi Lu, Teresa Lu, and Steven Kezian
Iron-Platinum Nanoparticles by Parham Peyda, Erika Phung, Britany Reddish, Qingbai Xu, Jin Yoon
Cobalt Oxide Nanoparticles by Vietsimon Tran, Pei-Yun Tseng, Brandon Tu, Katie Villabroza
Two-Dimensional Semiconductors by Jennifer Ngo, Chris Wang, Shiyao Wang, Ben Wu and Ying Zhu
Cu Y Zeolites by Zayd Alashini, Ricardo Ayavar, Rajana Bansal, Gabriel Cerecedes and Candy Delgado
Oxyselenides by Hannah Bersabe, Alejandra Gonzalez, Jigar Gor, Joshua Jeong and Ji Yeon Joo
Mercury Nano Trap Water Filtration by Balbir Kaur, Jaewon Kwag, Jon Kwon and Ji Hye Lee
Polymer Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells by Joseph Leong, Gesarae Mila and Thien Nguyen
Industrial Dye Degradation by Xiaoyang Quan, Michael Stone, Johnny Trinh and Aleric Wang
Gold Clusters by Sasha Demers, Yipin Wu, Bernice Lin and Michael Liao
Helium Cryogenics by Riley Fricke, Harpunit Sindhar, Kory DiGrande, Andrew Amezola
DNA-Binding Metallo-Intercalators by Alice Wong, Jonathan Hoech, Kevin Pepaoli and Anh Hoang
Graphene Application as Optical Lenses by Alex Aronson, Syed Quadri, Julian Nguyen and Allen Wu
Hydrogen Spillover by Randy Lin, Tu Lau, Jeanette Hernandez and Stephen Leicht
Carbon Peapods by Erin Soriano, Yu Lin, Lilly Qiu, Yanwu Shao, Mai Nguyen
Bio-Based Field Effect Transistors (FETs) by Sadegh Atlasi, Arshia Ashjaei, Huijun An and Yanbo Ren
Superoxide Dismutase Mimetics by Daniel Mosallaei, Tin Tran, Kenvin Nguyen and Azin Saebi
Diamond Nanoparticles by Stacy Lee, Melody Yuan and Joshua Lu
Titanate Nanosheets by Ekaterina Titarenko, Layne Haber, Chaoya Han, Jason Li and Daniel Vincent
Gold Nanoparticles in Drug Delivery by Sylvia Chow, Moonsun Choi, Gretchen Guaglione and Alyssa Gaiser
Another Wiki writing assignment was implemented in a second part of upper-division undergraduate inorganic chemistry course (Chemistry 172). Working in small teams, students identified a researcher (the person was not supposed to be affiliated with UCLA) who contributed to inorganic chemistry (broadly defined) and was missing or not fully covered within Wikipedia. Students wrote an original article covering the researcher. The following are select articles made by Chemistry 172 students:
Greg Hillhouse, Douglas Keszler, Debra Rolinson, T. Don Tilley, Marcetta Darensbourg, Abigail Doyle, Mark Thompson, Janis Louie, Kenneth Caulton, R. Tom Baker, Clifford Kubiak, Kim Dunbar, Chi-Ming Che, William J. Evans, Karen Goldberg, Rebecca Abergel, Jacquelene Kiplinger, Lawrence Que, Cynthia Burrows, Lisa McElwee-White, Clark Landis, Eugenia Kumacheva, Parisa Mehrkhodavandi, William B. Tolman, Amy Rosenzweig.
Chemistry 179/279 is a new upper-division and graduate course developed by Alex Spokoyny covering frontiers of the inorganic chemistry interfaced with biological systems. This class emphasizes on research aspects of contemporary chemistry where students learn about ongoing research efforts in leading laboratories around the world and critically assess contemporary scientific literature. Furthermore, during the course, students develop an original research idea and put together a formal research proposal, which is then evaluated by a student-based peer panel (similar to NIH study group). Click on the following link to see Fall 2015 student evaluations.
Silicon-Germanium Thermoelectrics in Space Exploration by Y. Asfaw, Parker Beatty, Ching Chan and C. Chatsirivichaikul
Lithium Hybrid Organic Battery by Tsai Cheah, Emily Duong, Mania Gharibian and Jeffrey Hong
Dodecaborate by Nhan Dinh, Angela Huang, Shaunt Kevork, Carmen Lau, Oriana Leekam
Carborane Super Acids by Jocelyn Lopez, Loi Lu, Teresa Lu, and Steven Kezian
Iron-Platinum Nanoparticles by Parham Peyda, Erika Phung, Britany Reddish, Qingbai Xu, Jin Yoon
Cobalt Oxide Nanoparticles by Vietsimon Tran, Pei-Yun Tseng, Brandon Tu, Katie Villabroza
Two-Dimensional Semiconductors by Jennifer Ngo, Chris Wang, Shiyao Wang, Ben Wu and Ying Zhu
Cu Y Zeolites by Zayd Alashini, Ricardo Ayavar, Rajana Bansal, Gabriel Cerecedes and Candy Delgado
Oxyselenides by Hannah Bersabe, Alejandra Gonzalez, Jigar Gor, Joshua Jeong and Ji Yeon Joo
Mercury Nano Trap Water Filtration by Balbir Kaur, Jaewon Kwag, Jon Kwon and Ji Hye Lee
Polymer Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells by Joseph Leong, Gesarae Mila and Thien Nguyen
Industrial Dye Degradation by Xiaoyang Quan, Michael Stone, Johnny Trinh and Aleric Wang
Gold Clusters by Sasha Demers, Yipin Wu, Bernice Lin and Michael Liao
Helium Cryogenics by Riley Fricke, Harpunit Sindhar, Kory DiGrande, Andrew Amezola
DNA-Binding Metallo-Intercalators by Alice Wong, Jonathan Hoech, Kevin Pepaoli and Anh Hoang
Graphene Application as Optical Lenses by Alex Aronson, Syed Quadri, Julian Nguyen and Allen Wu
Hydrogen Spillover by Randy Lin, Tu Lau, Jeanette Hernandez and Stephen Leicht
Carbon Peapods by Erin Soriano, Yu Lin, Lilly Qiu, Yanwu Shao, Mai Nguyen
Bio-Based Field Effect Transistors (FETs) by Sadegh Atlasi, Arshia Ashjaei, Huijun An and Yanbo Ren
Superoxide Dismutase Mimetics by Daniel Mosallaei, Tin Tran, Kenvin Nguyen and Azin Saebi
Diamond Nanoparticles by Stacy Lee, Melody Yuan and Joshua Lu
Titanate Nanosheets by Ekaterina Titarenko, Layne Haber, Chaoya Han, Jason Li and Daniel Vincent
Gold Nanoparticles in Drug Delivery by Sylvia Chow, Moonsun Choi, Gretchen Guaglione and Alyssa Gaiser
Another Wiki writing assignment was implemented in a second part of upper-division undergraduate inorganic chemistry course (Chemistry 172). Working in small teams, students identified a researcher (the person was not supposed to be affiliated with UCLA) who contributed to inorganic chemistry (broadly defined) and was missing or not fully covered within Wikipedia. Students wrote an original article covering the researcher. The following are select articles made by Chemistry 172 students:
Greg Hillhouse, Douglas Keszler, Debra Rolinson, T. Don Tilley, Marcetta Darensbourg, Abigail Doyle, Mark Thompson, Janis Louie, Kenneth Caulton, R. Tom Baker, Clifford Kubiak, Kim Dunbar, Chi-Ming Che, William J. Evans, Karen Goldberg, Rebecca Abergel, Jacquelene Kiplinger, Lawrence Que, Cynthia Burrows, Lisa McElwee-White, Clark Landis, Eugenia Kumacheva, Parisa Mehrkhodavandi, William B. Tolman, Amy Rosenzweig.
Chemistry 179/279 is a new upper-division and graduate course developed by Alex Spokoyny covering frontiers of the inorganic chemistry interfaced with biological systems. This class emphasizes on research aspects of contemporary chemistry where students learn about ongoing research efforts in leading laboratories around the world and critically assess contemporary scientific literature. Furthermore, during the course, students develop an original research idea and put together a formal research proposal, which is then evaluated by a student-based peer panel (similar to NIH study group). Click on the following link to see Fall 2015 student evaluations.
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