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Mission Statement

Mission Statement of the Chemistry Center: The Chemistry Center provides a positive space where students can interact with Chemistry course material in unique and meaningful ways. Student learning will be facilitated by interactions with Chemistry Center instructors and with peers, focusing on both cognitive and affective domains.

The Chemistry Center is OPEN

Location: Salem 109

The Chemistry Center will be OPEN on Sunday, January19th 

Operating Hours: Sunday-Thursday 5-9 PM

Come check out the new permanent home of the Chemistry Center, located on the first floor of Salam Hall. This space has whiteboards on every wall, a touch screen TV, all situated in an active learning classroom.

Center Services

The Chemistry Center instructors are both Chemistry graduate students and undergraduate students who are majoring in Chemistry. Instructors will provide assistance in learning chemical concepts, problem-solving strategies, and answer general questions. They will provide students with additional learning resources and limited help using digital homework platforms.

The Chemistry Center instructors WILL NOT answer problems from homework assignments, take-home exams, or any problem sets that will be graded. However, they can work on similar types of problems provided by the student.

Drop-in tutoring for LECTURE material will be available Sunday-Thursday from 5-9 PM for CHM 111, CHM 123, and CHM 223.

Supplemental Instruction will be available for certain lower-division course this Spring. Below are the Supplemental Instruction leaders. If your lecture section is not represented, you can contact another section’s SI leader to get information about when and where SI sessions are taking place.

CHM 111

Update coming soon

CHM 223

Update coming soon

Checking-In to the Chemistry Center

Please use the iPad kiosk to check-in and to check-out of the Chemistry Center. It’s fun and easy and you might just win a prize.

Chemistry Center Wall of Fame

Congratulations to Dr. Welker’s Supplemental Instruction students (and Lee Mendenhall, SI Leader) for a narrow victory at the Organic Chemistry Trivia night, Spring 2016.

Congratulations to the winners of the CHM 111 ACS Final Trivia Night Fall 2016 from Dr. Rives course (Kathy Kolodziejski, SI Leader)

Congratulations to our 1000th visitor, Sienna Burris with a celebratory photo bomb from Will